Final Rules Issued Pursuant to the Affordable Care Act

This memorandum responds to your request for a list of final rules that have been issued pursuant to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA, P.L. 111-148, March 23, 2010).1 To identify these rules, CRS searched the Government Printing Office’s (GPO’s) Federal Digital System (FDsys) electronic rulemaking databasefor final rules using the phrase “Affordable Care Act.” This approach identified a total of 76 final rules that appear to have been issued pursuant to ACA as of November 28, 2012. It is possible, though unlikely, that other final rules have been issued implementing specific provisions in ACA (e.g., rules that did not mention “Affordable Care Act” in the text).