Essential Health Benefits Under Threat

To ensure a more consistent level of benefits, the ACA requires that certain insurance plans—including those par- ticipating in the state purchasing exchanges— ...

Preventive care benefits for adults | HealthCare.gov

Tetanus · Lung cancer screening for adults 50 to 80 at high risk for lung cancer because they're heavy smokers or have quit in the past 15 years ...

What the GOP bill could mean for 'essential health benefits'

Eliminating or reducing required health insurance benefits, now part of the Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also threatens to kill the ACA's ...

Essential Health Benefits Protect Consumers from Junk Insurance ...

would drastically narrow risk pooling for these services, leading to a precipitous drop in access to and use of these services.vi This would ...

Essential health benefits benchmark plan | Washington state Office ...

The Affordable Care Act requires certain benefits, items and services be covered by all individual and small employer health plans. These are called Essential ...

ACA Essential Health Benefits

This means that most GHPs are not required to offer EHB. In other words, any GHP that is large group, self-insured (including level funded), or ...

The Trouble With Killing Obamacare's 'Essential Health Benefits'

Comprehensive insurance, with benefits like maternity or mental-health coverage, could become unaffordable—if not unavailable—under the ...

CMS Proposal May Increase Obstacles for State-Mandated Benefits

The new oversight may also lead states to reconsider their EHB benchmark plans and may influence states to select less generous benchmark plans ...

Women's Preventive Services Guidelines - HRSA

Preventive services that have strong scientific evidence of their health benefits must be covered and plans can no longer charge a patient a ...

Short-Term Health Plans: Still Bad for Consumers and the Individual ...

All of the best-selling short-term plans sold on eHealth exclude four categories of essential health benefits: preventive services, maternity ...

10 Essential Health Benefits from the ACA - HealthCareInsider.com

The Affordable Care Act requires that most health insurance plans include coverage for 10 “essential health benefits.” Those covered benefits include ...

An Employee's Guide to Health Benefits Under COBRA

There was a time when employer-provided group health coverage was at risk if an ... • Banning lifetime or annual dollar limits on coverage for essential health ...

AN ACT MANDATING INSURANCE COVERAGE OF ESSENTIAL ...

The bill also requires certain health insurance policies to cover specified benefits and services, including preventive health care services; immunizations; and ...

Essential Health Benefits Chart: Individual and Small Group Plans

An overview of these limitations and exclusions can be found in Maryland Insurance Administration Bulletins 13-01 and. 15-33. For more details regarding the ...

Patient Coverage Protections - ACOG

The continued prohibition of pre-existing condition exclusions, gender rating, and annual and lifetime benefit caps in all plans are essential to ensure women ...

The Future of Essential Health Benefits

If the EHB increased the cost of coverage, it did so because it required benefits that were not typically included in individual and small-group ...

Universal Health Coverage Overview - World Bank

Viewing health as an investment rather than an expense can unlock human capital and economic dividends for countries. Find out what our partners and UHC ...

§ 31–3311.03a. Essential health benefits. | D.C. Law Library

(B) Consider whether the health plan has a benefit design that would create a risk of biased selection based on health status and whether the health plan ...

The Affordable Care Act 101 - KFF

For example, people gaining coverage through the Medicaid expansion are guaranteed a benchmark benefit package that covers essential health ...

Universal Health Coverage - World Health Organization (WHO)

WHO's work is aligned with the Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) target 3.8, which focuses on achieving universal health coverage, including financial risk ...