Abortion Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act

Coverage for Abortion Services and the ACA - KFF

This brief reviews current federal and state policies on Medicaid and insurance coverage of abortion services, and presents national and state estimates.

Abortion is basic health care and therefore should be covered by health insurance. However, in passing the Affordable Care Act (ACA), ...

Abortion services - Glossary | HealthCare.gov

Federal law prohibits federal funds, including Marketplace premium tax credits, from being used for abortion services except in the limited cases of rape, ...

Interactive: How State Policies Shape Access to Abortion Coverage

The passage of the ACA in 2010 led to renewed legislative efforts to limit abortion coverage, this time in private insurance plans. The ACA ...

Three things to know about health insurance coverage for abortion

Abortion may be covered in a health plan, but if no providers are available, patients don't have access. However, people with insurance that ...

How the U.S. Health Insurance System Excludes Abortion

While enactment of the ACA did not support universal coverage of abortion, it did significantly increase access to women's health care in ...

Obamacare abortion coverage: HHS unveils new requirement for ...

Insurers providing policies on the Obamacare exchanges that cover abortions will have to issue separate bills for that coverage in an effort ...

Reproductive Health Care Services, including Abortion and ...

That depends on your type of insurance. The Reproductive Health Act requires state-regulated private health insurance plans that offer pregnancy-related ...

States Banning or Providing Insurance Coverage of Abortion Can ...

Unfortunately, the ACA allows states to prohibit private insurance plans from offering health insurance that includes abortion.7. Twenty-five states have laws ...

Beyond the Law: The Challenge of Marketplace Coverage of Abortions

“Insurer” means the insurance company, which offers different health insurance plans according to the metal tiers that are described in the Affordable Care Act.

State Laws Regulating Insurance Coverage of Abortion Have ...

Unfortunately, the ACA allows states to prohibit private insurance plans from offering comprehensive health insurance that includes abortion. Twenty-six states ...

Do plans sold in the health insurance exchanges cover abortion?

Section 1303 of the ACA clarifies that health insurance plans are not required to cover abortion. It also allows states to pass laws prohibiting ...

Find out what Marketplace health insurance plans cover

Are abortion services covered by Marketplace plans? Sometimes ... They may not include some rights and protections provided under the Affordable Care Act.

CMS Bulletin Addressing Enforcement of Section 1303 of the Patient ...

Since inception, section 1303 of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA) has ... abortion services by qualified health plans (QHPs) ...

How the U.S. Health Insurance System Excludes Abortion

The ACA triggered state action that banned coverage of abortion in health insur- ance plans offered through the insurance exchanges. Twenty-six states have ...

45 CFR § 156.280 - Segregation of funds for abortion services.

(c) Voluntary choice of coverage of abortion services. Notwithstanding any other provision of title I of the Affordable Care Act (or any other amendment made ...

Health Insurance Exchanges: Coverage of Non-excepted Abortion ...

Under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA), insurance plans offered in health insurance exchanges—known as qualified health ...

Birth control benefits - the Health Insurance Marketplace

Plans aren't required to cover drugs to induce abortions and services for male reproductive capacity, like vasectomies. ... About the Affordable Care Act ...

Abortion Coverage Under the Affordable Care Act: The Laws Tell ...

The ACA and state-specific laws dictate whether and how abortion can be included among the health services covered by plans available through these new ...

qhp-abortion-faq.pdf - CMS

FAQs on Coverage of Abortion for which Public Funding is Prohibited by Qualified Health ... of the Affordable Care Act (ACA)3 and 45 CFR 156.280.