Under the law, most health insurance plans must cover a set of preventive services without any cost to patients. Services include vaccines, colonoscopies, mammograms, pap smears, diabetes screenings and tobacco use screenings – all aimed at helping doctors and patients catch problems early, so they don't become costly and more difficult to manage later.
Patients are soon discovering, however, that anything else discussed during a visit with their health care providers could cost them.
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