The 5th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals has issued a stay of enforcement of a lower court’s ruling in  Braidwood Management Inc. v. Beccara . In  Braidwood , the lower court vacated a key portion of the Affordable Care Act’s preventive care coverage requirement.  In this issue, let’s get into what the court’s reinstatement of the ACA’s preventive care mandate means. We’ll also look at another ACA insurance-related topic: Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute fees. The ACA Preventive Care Mandate Explained  The ACA requires most health plans and health insurance issuers to cover a set of preventive services without imposing cost-sharing requirements when the services are provided by in-network providers. Among these are evidence-based items or services that have a rating of A or B in the current recommendations of the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force. In  Braidwood , the lower court ruled that preventive care coverage requirements based on an A or B rating by the USPSTF on or af