In the spring U.S. Preventive Medicine, a company focused on developing preventive health services, will begin offering nationwide health risk assessments, which employers can sponsor for workers.
The contraception requirement stems from a piece of the 2010 Affordable Care Act that requires insurance policies to cover preventive health services without charging out-of-pocket fees to enrollees.
Redefining that mission might mean taking money that was going to go to build a new patient tower and instead providing free preventive health services, funding biomedical research, or pursuing some other charitable endeavor.
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After reviewing comments from the public, the administration announced that the final rule on preventive health services will ensure that women with health insurance coverage will have access to the full range of recommended preventive services, including all FDA-approved forms of contraception.
Healthcare quality organizations, like the National Committee for Quality Assurance suggest that millions of people in the United States do not receive the basic recommendations for preventive health services such as immunizations, pap smears, mammograms, colorectal cancer screenings and the like.
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The centers will be designed to help provide primary and preventive health care services to people without health insurance.
We're also continuing to make progress on several other fronts-- providing vital preventive health care services for women through the Affordable Care Act, furthering STEM education for girls, and advocating for the passage of the Paycheck Fairness Act.
The new insurance exchanges created by this law ensure coverage of preventive care and basic health services, including maternity care, which is often not provided in health plans in the individual insurance market.
My Administration remains committed to ensuring access to quality health care that includes preventive services for women.
The new guidelines require most private health plans to cover preventive services, including contraception, for women without charging a copay, coinsurance or deductible.
What I am only trying to be clear about is that the commitment to make sure that all American women, no matter where they work, have access to the same health care coverage and the same preventive care services including contraception is absolutely firm.
The law will also give women and their families the affordable health choices they need and access to critical preventive services.
Preventive services would be carved out of the existing health insurance system and financed through a new, public-private system called the Wellness Trust.
Thanks to the Affordable Care Act, one million more young Americans have health insurance, women are getting mammograms and preventive services without paying an extra penny out of their own pocket and insurance companies have to spend more of your premiums on health care instead of advertising and bonuses.
"People forget that there are two sides to screening, " says Dr. Barbara Yawn, director of research at Olmstead Medical Center and a member of the United States Preventive Services Task Force, a government-backed group of health care professionals that study and evaluate health screens.
In addition, the U.S. Preventive Care Task Force, part of the Department of Health and Human Services, says there's not enough evidence to recommend for or against prostate cancer screening men younger than 75 and recommends against prostate screenings for men 75 or older.
Indeed, the findings by the Preventive Services Task Force are underwhelming at best: Of the 60 health screens the group has evaluated, it advises that physicians use only 29--and 10 of those, it says, should be done only at the physician's discretion.
Under the Affordable Care Act, signed into law last year, insurance companies will be prohibited from charging deductibles, co-payments or co-insurance on preventive services, including mammograms for patients who bought or joined a new health plan on or after September 23, 2010.
The bottom line is consumer protections and preventive services under the Affordable Care Act are giving millions of Americans more for their health care dollars.
And every health insurance plan in the Marketplace will cover a standard set of essential health benefits that includes, among other benefits, hospital stays, prescription drug coverage, preventive services, oral and vision care for kids.
Free preventive services are among the benefits that the White House is touting as it tries to show consumers that the health overhaul has tangible benefits.
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