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Patients going in for preventive care, expecting that it will be fully covered by insurance, are being blindsided by bills, big and small.

Patients going in for preventive care, expecting that it will be fully covered by insurance, are being blindsided by bills, big and small.

Patients going in for preventive care, expecting that it will be fully covered by insurance, are being blindsided by bills, big and small.

When Kristy Uddin, 49, went in for her annual mammogram in Washington state last year, she assumed she would not incur a bill because the test is one of the

The designers of the Affordable Care Act might have assumed that they spelled out with sufficient clarity that millions of Americans would no longer have to pay for certain types of preventive care. But they didn’t reckon with America’s ever-creative medical billing juggernaut.

When Kristy Uddin, 49, went in for her annual mammogram in Washington state last year, she assumed she would not incur a bill because the test is one of the many preventive measures guaranteed to be free to patients under the 2010 Affordable Care Act.