60% of privately insured patients used a preventive service required by the ACA

An analysis of claims data by the Kaiser Family Foundation estimates that 60% of patients with private health insurance – amounting to about 100 million people – used at least one preventive service that is required to be fully covered by the Affordable Care Act.

The study looked at data from a typical year (2018) prior to the pandemic for its assessment.

A provision of the ACA requires most private health plans to cover many preventive services with no out-of-pocket costs to the patient. The provision is being challenged in federal court. The U.S. District Court in the Northern District...