"The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPAC Act), signed into law by President Obama on March 23, 2010, amends the Public Health Service Act (PHS Act) to create an abbreviated approval pathway for biological products that are demonstrated to be 'highly similar' (biosimilar) to or 'interchangeable' with an FDA-approved biological product. These new statutory provisions also may be referred to as the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009 (BPCI Act)"--website of the U.S. Food & Drug Administration, "Implementation of the Biologics Price Competition and Innovation Act of 2009."