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.
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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.
- Hobby Lobby Decision, Analysis and Perspective - The US Supreme Court’s decision in Burwell v. Hobby Lobby Stores, Inc., and Conestoga Wood Specialties v. Burwell was a setback. The 5-4 ruling indicated that, under the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA), closely held corporations do not have to comply with the ACA's contraceptive coverage requirement, undermining the historic expansion of and protections for contraceptive access.
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.
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