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SCOTUS to hear challenge to ACA rule requiring free preventative care, cancer screenings

By STAT News  
   April 17, 2025

For a decade and a half, Americans have been guaranteed that no matter their health insurer, certain preventive care like cancer screenings are free of charge. That's because an ACA provision has required insurers to fully cover services given an A or B recommendation by an expert task force. On Monday, the U.S. Supreme Court will hear a challenge to this statute in the case of Kennedy v. Braidwood Management. Either way the court decides, legal and medical experts told STAT, the ruling could have profound ramifications for the future of preventive healthcare in the United States.

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