IOM: Free Family Planning
The Institute of Medicine, a panel that advises the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services on a variety of health issues, recommended that women’s preventive services include contraception education and other measures that should be covered by health plans at no costs to patients under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act of 2010 (ACA).
The new consensus report, to be discussed at 10 a.m. today on a live webcast, recommends that eight preventive health services for women be added to the services that health plans cover.