42 USC 300gg-11 - No lifetime or annual limits

U.S Code last checked for updates: Nov 22, 2024

§ 300gg–11.

No lifetime or annual limits

(a)

Prohibition

(1)

In general

A group health plan and a health insurance issuer offering group or individual health insurance coverage may not establish—

(A)

lifetime limits on the dollar value of benefits for any participant or beneficiary; or

(B)

except as provided in paragraph (2), annual limits on the dollar value of benefits for any participant or beneficiary.

(2)

Annual limits prior to 2014

(b)

Per beneficiary limits

(July 1, 1944, ch. 373, title XXVII, § 2711, as added and amended Pub. L. 111–148, title I, § 1001(5), title X, § 10101(a), Mar. 23, 2010, 124 Stat. 131, 883.)

cite as: 42 USC 300gg-11