Will Supreme Court Review Preventive Services Coverage Case?
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Oct 04, 2024
On Sept. 19, the Biden administration filed a petition asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review the case Braidwood Management, Inc. v. Becerra, which challenges the legality of the Affordable Care Act’s requirement that nearly all health insurers must cover a slew of preventive services without cost sharing.
Legal experts tell AIS Health, a division of MMIT, that the case could have significant ramifications for patients and the health care industry alike. And they say how it plays out may partly depend on who wins the upcoming elections.
“We’re getting close to four years in terms of when it was filed, but the stakes of this case remain really significant for tens of millions of Americans,” says Zachary Baron, director of the Health Policy and the Law Initiative at the O'Neill Institute. More than 150 million Americans have benefited from no-cost coverage of preventive services, he says, including lung cancer screenings, statins used to lower cholesterol, mammograms, vaccines and birth control.
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