
What services are most at risk in the Supreme Court case challenging the ACA preventive care rule?
By Anu Dairkee, Clinical Fellow, and Elizabeth Kaplan, Director of Health Care Access
Under the preventive care rule of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) services with a grade A or B recommendation from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF), services for women and children recommended by the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), and vaccines recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices (ACIP) are required to be covered free of cost for individuals whose health care is insured by non-grandfathered private insurance plans. The preventive care rule is one of the most popular sections of the ACA, it has received bipartisan support, and it helps to ensure that cost is not a factor when people decide to get or are prescribed preventive care. But a case that has been weaving its way through the U.S. justice system, Braidwood v. Becerra—which the Supreme Court plans to hear in 2025—is threatening the preventive care rule especially as it applies to the USPSTF. In a new chart, CHLPI compiles and analyzes the recommendations most at risk in this litigation.