WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on March 9 vacated a Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals opinion that denied the University of Notre Dame an injunction in its challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) accommodation process and remanded the case for consideration in...
HELENA, Mont. - Expansion of Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) appears dead in Montana after a 59-41 vote by a Montana House committee on March 10.
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Nearly 11.7 million consumers found insurance through Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) marketplaces for 2015, the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services said March 10.
OKLAHOMA CITY - Judicial economy is not served by considering a class certification motion in a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) challenge while appeals are pending, a federal judge held March 13 (The Catholic Benefits Association LCA; The Catholic Insurance Co. v. Sylvia M. Burwell,...
TAMPA, Fla. - A federal judge on March 18 granted the government's motion to stay a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) contraceptive mandate accommodation until the 11th Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals weighs in on a closely related case (Christian and Missionary Alliance...
MINNEAPOLIS - A transgendered individual may proceed with a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) Section 1557 discrimination case because the law creates a singular standard regardless of protected class status, a federal judge in Minnesota held March 16 (Jakob Tiarnan Rumble v. Fairview...
CHEYENNE, Wyo. - An Indian tribe waived its objections to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s large employer mandate by not raising them during the rulemaking process, and its action runs afoul of the Anti-Injunction Act's (AIA) bar on tax challenges taxes, the government told...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - An elected official cannot demonstrate injury from the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s transitional policy allowing states to decide whether to impose minimum insurance requirements, and his establishment clause claims would not remedy any alleged injury, the...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Supreme Court on March 30 declined a challenge to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) alleging that the individual mandate impermissibly required disclosure of confidential personal information (Nick Coons, et al. v. Jacob L. Lew, et al., No. 14-525, U.S. Sup....
WASHINGTON, D.C. - A federal judge should ignore "alarmist" rhetoric and instead find that House of Representatives members lack standing to challenge how the government spends Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) funds, the government argues in a March 31 brief (United States House...
JEFFERSON CITY, Mo. - A judge properly enjoined portions of a Missouri law governing the conduct of advisers employed to help people navigate the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) exchange, an Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals panel held April 10 in partially affirming (St. Louis Effort...
HELENA, Mont. - Montana Legislature on April 9 appeared to ready to enact legislation expanding Medicaid under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) after a newly introduced bill survived four failed motions for a second reading and two motions to re-refer the legislation to the House...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on April 27 granted two Catholic groups' petition for certiorari and vacated a Sixth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruling that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's contraceptive mandate did not substantially burden religious beliefs. The court...
CHICAGO - Notre Dame is not entitled to a preliminary injunction while it challenges the opt-out provision of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s contraceptive mandate, a divided Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals held May 19 (University of Notre Dame v. Kathleen Sebelius, et...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on June 8 denied the State of Maine's petition challenging mandatory continued Medicaid coverage for older children under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act's maintenance of effort requirements, according to the docket (Mary C. Mayhew, in...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s structure suggests the availability of tax subsidies in the federal exchange, and Congress could not have intended the state insurance market "death spirals" likely to result from barring such subsidies, a divided...
PHILADELPHIA - An expert may opine regarding, among other things, how Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) medical loss ratio (MLR) regulations affect class ascertainability, a federal judge held June 30 in decertifying a class of indirect purchasers of Wellbutrin XL (In re: Wellbutrin XL...
CHICAGO - Because a number of medical providers alleging that an insurer wrongfully reduced payments on health claims are not beneficiaries to an insurance contract, they are not entitled to allege claims under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974, the Seventh Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - The U.S. Supreme Court on Oct. 3 declined to review a woman's case involving, among other issues, the proper way to handle external benefit denial appeal after the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)'s amendments to the Employee Retirement Income Security Act ...
GREENSBORO, N.C. - An insurer received mixed results in its challenge to claims that it failed to properly compensate the developer of a colorectal cancer screening test, with a federal judge in North Carolina dismissing some of the claims on March 27 but largely allowing Employee Retirement Income Security...
COLUMBIA, S.C. - The government is improperly withholding payments from, and setting off debts owed by, a failed South Carolina Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) co-operative insurer, illegally placing its own interests before those of policyholders and others entitled to priority, the...
SAN FRANCISCO - A religious order has sufficient interests in the outcome of a suit challenging rules broadening the exemptions to the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) contraceptive mandate to permit intervention into the case, a federal judge in California held Dec. 29 (California, et...
SAN FRANCISCO - Insureds create standards for lactation support services the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) does not impose in an attempt to save their suit, an insurance group told a California federal judge on Jan. 5 in support of its motion for summary judgment (Rachel Condry, et...
WASHINGTON, D.C. - Neither pregnancy counseling centers challenging a law requiring that they disclose the availability of abortion services nor the state of California advances the correct standard for analyzing the case, and the law at the heart the case partially fails when properly evaluated, the...
SACRAMENTO, Calif. - Lawyers took deposition comments from a medical claims reviewer out of context to create trial and media leverage, Aetna Inc. says in a Feb. 14 response to an announcement that California would investigate the insurer's claims processing.