Preventive Care Benefits for Women

Preventive care goes beyond just physical health screenings. Your ACA plan includes coverage for mental health services, stress management resources, and wellness programs - all essential components of a comprehensive preventive care strategy.

Every ACA health insurance plan provides women with essential preventive care services at no out-of-pocket cost, ensuring access to vital screenings, well-woman visits, and reproductive health services. From annual wellness exams to mammograms and contraception coverage, understanding your preventive care benefits helps you maintain optimal health while maximizing your insurance plan's value.

Breastfeeding support and counseling from trained providers, and access to breastfeeding supplies, for pregnant and nursing women

1. Birth control: Food and Drug Administration-approved contraceptive methods, sterilization procedures, and patient education and counseling, as prescribed by a health care provider for women with reproductive capacity (not including abortifacient drugs). This does not apply to health plans sponsored by certain exempt “religious employers.” Learn more about contraceptive coverage.

2. Folic acid supplements for women who may become pregnant

3. Gestational diabetes screening for women 24 weeks pregnant (or later) and those at high risk of developing gestational diabetes

4. Gonorrhea screening for all women at higher risk

5. Hepatitis B screening for pregnant women at their first prenatal visit

6. Maternal depression screening for mothers at well-baby visits

7. Preeclampsia prevention and screening for pregnant women with high blood pressure

8. Rh incompatibility screening for all pregnant women and follow-up testing for women at higher risk

9. Syphilis screening

10. Expanded tobacco intervention and counseling for pregnant tobacco users

11. Urinary tract or other infection screening

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Notice:

You'll be asked if you're pregnant if you select the application option to get help paying for coverage and select "Female" for the question about your sex.

Other covered preventive services for women

1. Bone density screening for all women over age 65 or women age 64 and younger that have gone through menopause

2. Breast cancer genetic test counseling (BRCA) for women at higher risk

3. Breast cancer screening mammogram, with or without clinical breast examination, every 1-2 years for women 40 and older

4. Breast cancer chemoprevention counseling for women at higher risk

5. Cervical cancer screening

   • Pap test (also called a Pap smear) for women age 21 to 65

6. Chlamydia infection screening for younger women and other women at higher risk

7. Diabetes screening for women with a history of gestational diabetes who aren’t currently pregnant and who haven’t been diagnosed with type 2 diabetes before

8. Domestic and interpersonal violence screening and counseling for all women

9. Gonorrhea screening for all women at higher risk

10. HIV screening and counseling for everyone age 15 to 65, and other ages at increased risk

11. PrEP (pre-exposure prophylaxis) HIV prevention medication for HIV-negative women at high risk for getting HIV through sex or injection drug use

12. Sexually transmitted infections counseling for sexually active women

13. Tobacco use screening and interventions

14. Urinary incontinence screening for women yearly

15. Well-woman visits to get recommended services for all women

    
    

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