lifetime limits
Maximum benefit boundaries
Lifetime limits are caps on the total benefits an insurance policy will pay over a person's entire coverage period.
Once reached, the insurer pays nothing more regardless of medical need.
Common in health insurance before regulatory changes banned them for essential benefits: She hit her lifetime limit after two years of cancer treatment.
The term appears in discussions of healthcare policy and insurance reform.
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