The ACA charged the Secretary of HHS with defining the EHB, but required HHS to “ensure that the scope of the essential health benefits under paragraph (1) is equal to the scope of benefits ...

The Essential Health Benefits requirement may be on the chopping block as the Administration and Congress seek to repeal and replace the ACA. An understanding of how the EHB rule did and did not ...

To comply with the ACA, every health insurance plan sold on the exchanges or provided by employers had to include these benefits -- here’s the the list of the 10 essential benefits, as defined ...

A pharmacy technician fills out a prescription of Levoxyl at Rosemont Pharmacy in January 2006 in Portland, Maine. The future of "essential health benefits" like maternity benefits, prescription ...

The ACA requires payers to cover at least 10 specific benefits, including maternity care and prescription drugs. The rule includes a number of other changes, including the requirements for ...

Under the ACA, health plans sold to individuals and small groups (employers with 50 or fewer employees) must include 10 essential benefits: emergency services, habilitative and rehabilitative ...

Under the 522-page new rule (PDF) released on Tuesday, states will be able to choose from 50 essential benefit benchmark plans, instead of 10, beginning in 2020.

The ACA’s “essential benefits” include outpatient care, emergency services, hospitalization, pregnancy, maternity and newborn care, mental health and substance abuse treatment, prescription ...

Obamacare's 10 essential health benefits cover basic services such as vaccines and pediatric visits Joe Raedle / Getty Images, file March 23, 2017, 11:49 AM EDT / Updated March 24, 2017, 10:12 AM EDT ...

Eliminating or reducing required health insurance benefits, now part of the Republican bill to repeal the Affordable Care Act, also threatens to kill the ACA's annual and lifetime limits on ...

Before the Affordable Care Act, 34 percent of people who purchased their own health insurance did not have substance abuse services and 18 percent did not have coverage for mental health services ...

Under the health law, insurers must cover 10 categories of services known as essential health benefits, such as prescription drugs, pregnancy and childbirth, and mental health services. The AMA ...