Federal Appeals Court Temporarily Reinstates Affordable Care Act Mandate Requiring Insurers to Cover Preventive Care

Biden administration finalized a deal to preserve the federal mandate requiring insurers to cover preventive care, though a legal challenge continues.
Insurers must continue covering all preventive care like HIV prevention pills, cancer screenings, and prenatal services while an appeals court reviews a ruling striking down part of the ACA.
A federal judge blocked enforcement of the mandate for some services, but the ruling does not apply to services from before 2010.
Lawyers reached an agreement keeping most of the preventive care mandate in place and requiring most insurers to keep offering preventive care at no cost.
The appeals court still must approve the agreement and is expected to rule on the mandate's constitutionality later this year.