The departments of Health and Human Services, Labor, and the Treasury today issued interim final rules implementing health reform law provisions requiring new private health plans to cover certain evidence-based preventive services without enrollee cost-sharing requirements. Under the rules, group and individual health plans that are not grandfathered under the law must cover certain preventive services for plan years beginning on or after Sept. 23. These services include: preventive services with a "grade" of A or B from the U.S. Preventive Services Task Force; routine vaccines recommended by the Advisory Committee on Immunization Practices; preventive care for children recommended by the Bright Futures guidelines; and preventive care for women recommended by the U.S. Preventive Task Force and new guidelines to be released by the Health Resources and Services Administration by August 2011. The interim final rules and list of recommendations and guidelines that must be covered can be found at www.HealthCare.gov/center/regulations/prevention.html. Comments on the rules will be accepted for 60 days after their publication in the July 19 Federal Register.