# Ninety-Day Waiting Period Limitation and Technical Amendments to Certain Health Coverage Requirements Under the Affordable Care Act
> **US Department of Labor** · Final rule. · Published 2014-02-24 · Effective 2014-04-25 · 79 FR 10296
## Document
- **Document number:** 2014-03809
- **Category:** other
- **Sub-agency:** US Department of Labor
- **Federal Register citation:** 79 FR 10296
- **CFR reference:** 26 CFR 54
- **Publication date:** 2014-02-24
- **Effective date:** 2014-04-25
- **DOL docket:** T.D. 9656
## Abstract

These final regulations implement the 90-day waiting period limitation under section 2708 of the Public Health Service Act, as added by the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (Affordable Care Act), as amended, and incorporated into the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 and the Internal Revenue Code. These regulations also finalize amendments to existing regulations to conform to Affordable Care Act provisions. Specifically, these rules amend regulations implementing existing provisions such as some of the portability provisions added by the Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act of 1996 (HIPAA) because those provisions of the HIPAA regulations have become superseded or require amendment as a result of the market reform protections added by the Affordable Care Act.

## Source
- [Federal Register document](https://www.federalregister.gov/documents/2014/02/24/2014-03809/ninety-day-waiting-period-limitation-and-technical-amendments-to-certain-health-coverage)
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