Agencies seek input on requiring health plans to cover preventive services without cost sharing or prescription

The departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury today released a request for information on the potential benefits and costs of requiring non-grandfathered health plans to cover over-the-counter preventive items and services without cost sharing and without a prescription. They also seek comment on potential challenges or burdens associated with providing such coverage, and whether and how it would benefit consumers. The agencies plan to publish the notice in the Federal Register with a 60-day comment period.