By Mary Agnes Carey and Andrew Villegas
Kaiser Health News
WASHINGTON – Several little-known provisions of the new health-care overhaul law take effect in coming months that could have a lasting impact on the nation’s health-care system.
They include eliminating co-payments for certain preventive services such as mammograms, giving the government more power to review health insurers’ premium increases and allowing states to expand Medicaid coverage to low-income adults without children.
Here’s a quick look at some of the changes that are occurring this year: