Good news: If you're a woman with health insurance, from now on you are covered without copay or cost-sharing for eight additional preventive care services.
Bad news: Many of the most vulnerable women remain uncovered at this time.
You-had-to-go-to-school-to-learn-that? insight: The sooner every American can acquire health insurance, the better for all of us.
Here, as described by healthcare.gov, are the eight additional women’s preventive services now covered:
- Well-woman visits: This would include an annual well-woman preventive care visit for adult women to obtain the recommended preventive services, and additional visits if women and their health care providers determine they are necessary. These visits will help women and their health care providers determine what preventive services are appropriate, and set up a plan to help women get the care they need to be healthy.
- Gestational diabetes screening: This screening is for women 24 to 28 weeks pregnant, and those at high risk of developing gestational diabetes. It will help improve the health of mothers and babies because women who have gestational diabetes have an increased risk of developing type 2 diabetes in the future. In addition, the children of women with gestational diabetes are at significantly increased risk of being overweight and insulin-resistant throughout childhood.
