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Preventive care is free by law, but many Americans get incorrectly billed − especially if you’re poor, a person of color or don’t have a college degree

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The Affordable Care Act exempted preventive services from patient cost-sharing for large chunks of the population.

Many don’t receive recommended preventive services, especially racial and ethnic minorities and other at-risk patient groups.

Patients spend millions of dollars every year on unexpected bills for preventive care.

It was written by: Alex Hoagland , University of Toronto and Michal Horný , UMass Amherst Read more: Alex Hoagland receives funding from the Commonwealth Fund and the National Institute on Aging . Michal Horný received funding from the Commonwealth Fund , the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention , and the National Center for Advancing Translational Sciences . He also received speaker honorariums and travel support from Masaryk University , Brno , Czech Republic , and the Institute of Organic Chemistry and Biochemistry of the Czech Academy of Sciences , Prague , Czech Republic ..

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