Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act

**Definition:** An Act prohibiting a health plan from establishing lifetime limits or annual limits on the dollar value of benefits for any participant or beneficiary after January 1, 2014. It permits a restricted annual limit for plan years beginning prior to January 1, 2014. It provides that a health plan shall not be prevented from placing annual or lifetime per-beneficiary limits on covered benefits. The Act sets up a competitive health insurance market.

**Tree numbers:** - N03.219.521.576.343.918 - N03.706.615.806

**Synonyms:** - PL 111-148 - Health Care Reform Act - Public Law 111-148 - Affordable Care Act (ACA) - Affordable Care Act - Obamacare - PL111-148