Contraceptive Coverage/Preventive Services

The women’s preventive health services benefit in Affordable Care Act (ACA) requires that most insurance plans cover evidence-based preventive services for women including annual exams, Pap smears and contraception without cost-sharing. The US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) estimates that more than 100 million people now have access to this coverage of preventive services without cost-sharing. There have been several legal challenges to the contraceptive coverage requirement. For more information, visit the legal action page.

NFPRHA's Work

NFPRHA strives to protect and expand the access resulting from the ACA's contraceptive coverage requirement that helps millions of insured people in the US have access to contraception with no cost-sharing. NFPRHA has a long history of working to improve both public and private health insurance coverage of contraceptives throughout the country and will continue to work tirelessly to protect access to these services.

Resources

NFPRHA Fact Sheets

The Right to Contraception Act - The Right to Contraception Act would establish that individuals have a statutory right to obtain contraceptives and to more broadly seek care to prevent pregnancy.

NFPRHA Comments

On December 5, 2017, NFPRHA submitted comments on both the religious exemption and moral exemption interim final rules proposed by the Trump administration earlier that year.

Other Resources

NWLC's Contraceptive Coverage Hotline and Help Center (HTML) - The National Women’s Law Center's (NWLC) hotline (1-866-PILL4US), email address (pill4us@nwlc.org), and resources for women who have questions about or need help receiving the contraceptive coverage benefit.
Guidance fom the US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), Department of Labor, and the Department of the Treasury (HTML) - An FAQ clarifying that private insurance plans are required to cover at least one of each 18 FDA-approved methods of contraception with no cost-sharing (May 2015)

	NFPRHA's Position
	Contraceptive coverage enables the prevention of unintended pregnancy and allows women, if and when they choose to become pregnant, to better plan and space pregnancies, which has been proven to improve maternal and child health.

NFPRHA's Position

Contraceptive Coverage and Preventive Services

Contraceptive coverage enables the prevention of unintended pregnancy and allows women, if and when they choose to become pregnant, to better plan and space pregnancies, which has been proven to improve maternal and child health.

Happening Now

NFPRHA joins partners in condemning the Supreme Court's decision in Trump v. Pennsylvania, which will allow any employer to claim a religious or moral objection to covering contraception under two final rules promulgated in November 2018. One final rule allows any employer to claim a religious objection to covering contraception for their employees. The other final rule allows exemptions for organizations with moral objections. The rules had been barred by lower courts and had never gone into effect.

Clinical Preventive Services for Women: Closing the Gaps (HTML) - Institute of Medicine's (IOM) report on their recommendations to the US Department of Health and Human Services on which women's health services should be included as preventive services (July 2011).

For additional resources & information, access NFPRHA fact sheets and federal comments by issue or read NFPRHA's publications and recent press statements.

Contraceptive Coverage/Preventive Services

NFPRHA's Work

Happening Now

Issues

National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association