Contraceptive coverage is not affected by the 2023 court ruling. There have been other challenges to the contraceptive mandate over the years, and the Trump administration made it easier for health plan sponsors to get an exemption from the coverage requirement if they have religious or moral objections to contraception. But the Biden-Harris administration has proposed new rules in 2023 that would roll back some of those changes and ensure that women could still have access to zero-cost contraception even if their employer or school has a religious exemption.
One note about free contraception: Although non-grandfathered health plans are required to cover all types of FDA-approved female-specific contraception, they’re only required to offer one version of each type with no cost-sharing. They can impose cost-sharing for other versions. So it’s not true that all contraception is covered for free. Rather, at least one version of each type of contraception is covered for free.