The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services is adding breast cancer prevention to the basic women's health preventive services package.
The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act requires non-grandfathered major medical carriers and group health plans to cover the package of services without imposing deductibles, co-payments, coinsurance amounts or other cost-sharing requirements on the patients.
The PPACA preventive services package mandate applies to self-insured group health plans as well as to traditional plans.
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Allison Bell
Allison Bell, a senior reporter at ThinkAdvisor and BenefitsPRO, previously was an associate editor at National Underwriter Life & Health. She has a bachelor's degree in economics from Washington University in St. Louis and a master's degree in journalism from the Medill School of Journalism at Northwestern University. She can be reached through X at @Think_Allison.
