Save Women's Preventive Care Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to expand preventive care and screening coverage for women under a group health plan. Under current law, a group health plan must provide preventive care and screening coverage for women as prescribed for in the comprehensive guidelines by the Health Resources and Services Administration. The bill repeals that condition, and instead, specifies the following preventive care and screenings must be covered under a group health plan: comprehensive lactation support services; screening for adolescents and women for interpersonal and domestic violence; screening for gestational diabetes mellitus; screening for cervical cancer; directed behavioral counseling for sexually transmitted infections; prevention education, risk assessment, and screening for HIV; contraceptive care; screening for breast cancer; and well-woman preventive care visits. The bill authorizes states to require group health plans to provide more generous coverage.
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Timeline
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Introduced in Senate
Read twice and referred to the Committee on Health, Education, Labor, and Pensions.
Health
CancerChild healthDigestive and metabolic diseasesDisability and health-based discriminationDomestic violence and child abuseFamily planning and birth controlHealth care costs and insuranceHealth care coverage and accessHealth promotion and preventive careHIV/AIDSMedical tests and diagnostic methodsRacial and ethnic relationsSex and reproductive healthSexually transmitted diseasesWomen's health
A bill to guarantee coverage of certain women's preventive services under all health plans.
USA115th CongressS-1045| Senate
| Updated: 5/4/2017
Save Women's Preventive Care Act This bill amends the Public Health Service Act to expand preventive care and screening coverage for women under a group health plan. Under current law, a group health plan must provide preventive care and screening coverage for women as prescribed for in the comprehensive guidelines by the Health Resources and Services Administration. The bill repeals that condition, and instead, specifies the following preventive care and screenings must be covered under a group health plan: comprehensive lactation support services; screening for adolescents and women for interpersonal and domestic violence; screening for gestational diabetes mellitus; screening for cervical cancer; directed behavioral counseling for sexually transmitted infections; prevention education, risk assessment, and screening for HIV; contraceptive care; screening for breast cancer; and well-woman preventive care visits. The bill authorizes states to require group health plans to provide more generous coverage.
CancerChild healthDigestive and metabolic diseasesDisability and health-based discriminationDomestic violence and child abuseFamily planning and birth controlHealth care costs and insuranceHealth care coverage and accessHealth promotion and preventive careHIV/AIDSMedical tests and diagnostic methodsRacial and ethnic relationsSex and reproductive healthSexually transmitted diseasesWomen's health