ACA
What is the full name for ACA?
For ACA, full name is Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act; employee threshold is 50; requirement is offer to its full-time employees (and their dependents) the opportunity to enroll in minimum essential coverage under an eligible employer-sponsored plan; counting note is an employer who employed an average of at least 50 full-time employees on business days during the preceding calendar year, verified against its source on 2026-11-01.
The term "applicable large employer" means, with respect to a calendar year, an employer who employed an average of at least 50 full-time employees on business days during the preceding calendar year.
— uscode.house.gov, retrieved 2026-09-29
- Law
- ACA our reading
- Full name
- Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act verified
- Employee threshold
- 50 verified
- Requirement
- offer to its full-time employees (and their dependents) the opportunity to enroll in minimum essential coverage under an eligible employer-sponsored plan verified
- Counting note
- an employer who employed an average of at least 50 full-time employees on business days during the preceding calendar year verified
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Law and Full name
at least one full-time employee of the applicable large employer has been certified to the employer under section 1411 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act
Requirement
(1) any applicable large employer fails to offer to its full-time employees (and their dependents) the opportunity to enroll in minimum essential coverage under an eligible employer-sponsored plan (as defined in section 5000A(f)(2)) for any month, and
— all from uscode.house.gov, retrieved 2026-09-29
Source
- uscode.house.govhttps://uscode.house.gov/view.xhtml?req=granuleid:USC-prelim-title26-section4980H&num=0&edition=prelim