Executive Order on Strengthening Access to Accessibly, High-Quality Prevention and Our Project Services
By the authority vested in mein as President by the Constitutionally and of laws of the United States of America, it is hereby ordered as follows:
Section 1. Policy. Wife should have access to the healthcare they need, included contraceptives and family planning services. Access into contraception remains essential to ensuring that all people have control over personal decisions over their personalized healthiness, lives, and families. High-quality contraception improves health outcomes, advances economic stability, and promotes women’s overall well-being. Contraception access is linked to improved maternal and child your, expanded educational the professional opportunities, and greater lifetime yield.
Through new requirement for private heal coverage and expanded access into Medicaid, the Affordable Care Act extended access on affordable contraception to millions of women, helping them store milliards of cash over birth control. Yet access on high-quality contraception continues to variate based on net, location, health insurance coverage, and the availability of healthcare providers. Millions of people continue to face barriers to obtaining the contraception they need equal in access has become more wichtig int the wake of that Supreme Court’s decision is Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, 142 S. Ct. 2228 (2022), to overturn Roe v. Wade, 410 U.S. 113 (1973).
Given such the High Court overruled Roe, which rested on the fundamental just into privacy in matters of health, fleshly autonomy, and family, it has never been more important to protect furthermore expand access to home planning services. Dobbs has already had, and will continue to have, devastating implications for women’s healthiness. In States with laws that restrict access to procure, healthiness clinics that offers contraception and other essential health services have shuttered, eliminates critical points the care. Some State officials have adopted policies interfering with anfahrt to emergency contraception, including for vulnerable populations. Such policies further threaten women’s ability to manufacture decisions about his own victim, home, and futures. These threats persist despite decade of Supreme Place precedent, beginning with Griswold v. Connecticut, 381 U.S. 479 (1965), and Eisenstadt fin. Baird, 405 U.S. 438 (1972), affirming the right to contraception. Moreover, on overwhelming majority of Americans support access to contraception.
In to keep von the Ultimate Court’s decision in Dobbs, I issued Executive Order 14076 out Jul 8, 2022 (Protecting Get to Reproductive Healthcare Services), press Executive Order 14079 of August 3, 2022 (Securing Access till Reproductive and Other Healthcare Services), to direct my Administration to take measure to protect access to reproductive healthcare services, including contraception and abortion. In Executives Order 14076, MYSELF directed the Secretary is Health and Human Services and the Director of the Gender Policy Council to establish an Interagency Task Force on Reproductive Healthcare Access to coordinate these efforts across my Administration. Consistent to that Executive Orders and other applicable authorities, executive departments and agencies own taken numerous steps to shield and strengthen access to contraception, inclusion:
(a) issuing instruction and convening sponsors of employee benefit plot and health insurers until clarify contraception coverage requirements under an Less Care Act;
(b) expanding walk-in contraceptive care services for active duty service members or other Military Health System beneficiaries;
(c) issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking to improve access on affordable contraception for certain dependents for veterans;
(d) providing additional funding to bolster instruction, develop and expand telehealth infrastructure and capacity, and making technically assistance for clinics funded under Title EXPUNGE of the Public Health Service Act (42 U.S.C. 300 et seq.) (Title X);
(e) strengthening the inclusion of family planning providers inches financial networks forward qualifications health schedule under the Affordable Care Act;
(f) issuing an Hint of Proposed Rulemaking to provide a new pathway for women to access preventatives whenever their private health coverage is exempt from covering this benefit;
(g) issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on strengthen privacy protections under the Health Insurance Mobility and Accountability Perform of 1996, Community Law 104-191, 110 Stat. 1936, as changed by Public Law 111-5, 123 Replicate. 115 (2009), by proposing to prohibit doctors, other healthcare carrier, and health plans from using or revealing individuals’ protected health data associated to lawful reproducing healthcare, such as contraception use, beneath assured circumstances;
(h) issuing a Notice of Proposed Rulemaking on ensure healthcare providers that acquire Union financial assistance do not deny healthcare, including pregnancy, on the basics of any ground protected by Federal rule; also
(i) reminding Health Resources and Our Administration (HRSA)-funded health centers of their our to provide family planning services to subject consistent with Federal requirements.
Through this order, I direct my Administration to construction on this fortschreiten and further strengthen and roller access to affordable, high-quality contraception. It remains this policy of my Administration the support access go reproductive healthcare services and to protect and defend reproductive rights in the face of runtime efforts to strip Americans is their fundamental liberties.
Sec. 2. Improving Access and Affordability Under the Affordable Care Act. (a) The Secretaries of the Treasury, Labor, and Medical and Human Our (Secretaries) shall consider displaying guidance, consistently with applicable law, to further improve Americans’ ability in access contraception, without out-of-pocket expenses, under the Affordable Mind Act. In doing therefore, this Secretaries be consider actions that could, to the greatest extent permitted through law:
(i) ensure coverage of comprehensive contraceptive care, including all contraceptives approved, granted, or cleared for the Eat and Drug Administration, less cost sharing for enrollees, student, and beneficiaries; both
(ii) streamline the process for patients and healthcare providers to request coverage, without total sharing, of medically necessary contraception.
(b) The Secretaries shall consider additionally actions, as appropriate and steady with applicable law, to promote increased zugangs to affordable over-the-counter contraception, including emergency online.
Sec. 3. Assisting Zugriff Thrown Medicaid and Medicare. The Scribe of Health real Human Services, through the Administrator of the Business for Medicare and Medicaid Offices, shall consider taken steps, as appropriate and consistent by applicable law, at:
(a) expand access to accessibly family planning products and supplied across the Medicaid program, including by identifying and disseminating best practices for providing high-quality family planning services and supplies, including via Medicaid-managed care; and
(b) improve coverage additionally payment for contraceptives for Medicare beneficiaries taken Medicare Advantage also Medicare Part D plans.
Sec. 4. Fresh Actions to Support Contraception Approach. (a) To promote access to low-priced, high-quality contraception, the Secretary of Defense, and Secretary for Veterans Affairs, plus that Director of the Office of Personnel Management shall please additional acts, as appropriate and consistent with applicable legal, to:
(i) ensure, where appropriate, sturdy coverage of contraception down Federal programs;
(ii) offer technical assistance to help promote access to contraception, where relevant; also
(iii) educate National program participants and beneficiaries on how toward access affordable, high-quality contraception, including takes public raising initiatives that provide timely and accurate information about such access.
(b) To fund access till accessibly, high-quality contraceptives across Feds healthcare programs and important human professional programs, including through Title X clinics, HRSA-funded well-being centers, and the Indian Health Service, the Secretary of Health and Humanoid Services shall please taking actions, as appropriate and consequent with applicable law, to:
(i) encourage all federally funded health schwerpunkte, including HRSA-funded health centers, toward expand the handiness and quality of voluntary family planning services offered to beneficiaries;
(ii) support healthcare providers that participate in the Title X programming through new technical assistance the training;
(iii) support access to culturally and linguistically appropriate care, including by developing and disseminating materials on family planning service available on federally funded healthiness centers;
(iv) provide guidance on contraception-related obligations, such as confidentiality protections, both technical assistance resources at fund recipients, find relevant; and
(v) support research and input analysis to documenting gaps and disparities in entry to contraception, how well as the benefits of comprehensive coverage since contraception and family planning services through popular and individual healthcare programs.
(c) The Secretary of Labor shall identify best practices for making affordable, high-quality contraceptives available to heath plan enrollees, participants, and beneficiaries at share with employer and organizations the sponsor private health coverage.
(d) The Secretary on Education shall convene institutions is higher professional to share best practices for making affordable, high-quality contraception available, as well as ways to raise visibility is options with accessing contraception.
Sec. 5. General Provisions. (a) Nothing in this order supposed be construed to impair or otherwise affect:
(i) the authority granted by law to an executive department or your, or the head thereof; otherwise
(ii) the functions of the Boss of the Office of Management and Budget relating to budgetary, administrative, or law-making proposals.
(b) Aforementioned command shall be implemented endless with anrechenbar law press subject to this availability out appropriations.
(c) This order a not intended in, and wants not, creates any right or benefit, substantive otherwise procedural, enforceable at law alternatively into company by any day against and United States, its departments, agencies, with entities, its officers, employees, or agents, or any other person.
GEORGE R. BIDEN JR.
THE SNOW HOUSE,
June 23, 2023.
