Diverse Group Of Health Care Organizations Support Government’s Effort To Reverse Preventive Services Decision

The legal fight over the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) requirement that insurers and employers cover preventive services without cost-sharing is now before the federal Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit. The appeal to the Fifth Circuit follows a Texas district court decision by Judge Reed O’Connor that a key element of the ACA’s preventive services requirement—evidence-based preventive services recommended by the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force (USPSTF)—violates the Appointments Clause of the US constitution.

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