What Counts as Preventative Care?
Children have adifferent list, and there’s alsoan additional list of fully covered preventive services for women.
This is the case regardless of whether you’ve met your deductible or how long you’ve been enrolled.
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But keep in mind that you’ll need to use anin-internet medical providerto obtain zero-cost preventive care.
Preventive care is one of theACA’s essential health benefits(EHBs).
That continues to be the case, even after the public health emergency has ended.
Recommended COVID vaccines continue to be fully covered by non-grandfathered health plans, just like other recommended vaccines.
Obviously, the medical costs related to COVID-19 go well beyond testing.
But those cost-sharing waivers had mostly expired by the end of 2020.
Who Determines Which Preventive Care Benefits Are Covered?
Where did the government come up with the specific list of preventive services that health plans have to cover?
For example, COVID vaccines were added to the list of covered preventive care in December 2020.
Some care can be preventive or diagnostic, depending on the situation.
If you dont want to pay for preventive care, use anin-networkprovider.
Your insurer takes the cost of preventive care services into account when it sets premium rates each year.
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