Affordable Care Act, Contraceptive Coverage Mandate

ACA-Required Coverage of Contraceptive Care Remains Agency Focus

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 3/7/2024

Once again, the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury have issued guidance on the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) required coverage of contraception without cost sharing, clarifying the permitted...more

Tri-Agencies Issue FAQs on Contraceptive Coverage

Groom Law Group, Chartered on 2/8/2024

On January 22, the Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services (“Tri-Agencies”) issued a set of Frequently Asked Questions (“ACA FAQs Part 64”) clarifying the contraceptive-related services that plans and...more

Tri-Agencies Address Preventive Services Coverage in the Wake of Braidwood

McDermott Will & Emery on 4/18/2023

In response to Braidwood Mgmt. Inc. v. Becerra, a recent case striking down part of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) preventive services mandate, the US Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury...more

Video: ACA Preventive Coverage Mandate Blocked, Another No-Poach Loss for DOJ, and Employers Prepare for the End of the COVID-19...

Epstein Becker & Green on 4/12/2023

As featured in #WorkforceWednesday: This week, we examine the decision of a Texas district court to strike down an Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandate on preventive medical services and look at the U.S. Department of Justice’s...more

HHS, DOL, and Treasury Give Employer-Sponsored Health Plans Another Warning on Providing Contraceptive Coverage

Ogletree, Deakins, Nash, Smoak & Stewart,... on 8/5/2022

Employers can’t say they weren’t warned. For the second time in six months, frequently asked question (FAQ) guidance from federal regulators is calling attention to the requirement that employer-sponsored health...more

The Courts and Healthcare Policy - August 2021

McGuireWoods Consulting on 8/10/2021

The courts continue to play an important role in health policy. 2020 saw several notable lawsuits related to the Affordable Care Act (ACA). Several other Trump administration policies were challenged, including Medicare...more

Payroll Tax Relief and Latest Developments in Retirement Plans and Benefits

Jackson Walker on 8/12/2020

Payroll Tax Relief Under CARES Act, FFCRA, and Executive Order - While the Coronavirus Aid, Relief, and Economic Security (CARES) Act permitted employers to defer depositing the portion of the FICA taxes the employer pays...more

A Simplified View Of The Supreme Court’s 2019-2020 Workplace Law Term

Fisher Phillips on 8/10/2020

Supreme Court decisions are often the most challenging pieces of legal guidance to understand. They are rarely straightforward and usually contain so much analysis that it becomes hard to get to the bottom of what was...more

July 2020: The Top 17 Labor And Employment Law Stories

Fisher Phillips on 8/4/2020

It’s hard to keep up with all the recent changes to labor and employment law. While the law always seems to evolve at a rapid pace, there have been an unprecedented number of changes for the past few years—and this past month...more

United States Supreme Court recognizes employer religious freedoms in two recent decisions

Hogan Lovells on 7/29/2020

On July 8, 2020, the United States Supreme Court decided two cases addressing employers’ religious freedoms in very different contexts: one concerning whether religious school teachers could challenge adverse employment...more

ACA Attacked By Left and Right; New Jersey’s Response

Genova Burns LLC on 7/27/2020

After the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in a 2-1 decision last December, declared the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) individual health insurance mandate unconstitutional as a result of Congress’ elimination of...more

Supreme Court Rules that Employers May Use Religious and Moral Exemptions for Requirement to Provide Health Plan Coverage for...

McNees Wallace & Nurick LLC on 7/20/2020

On July 8, 2020, in the consolidated cases of Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania et al. and Donald J. Trump, President of the United States, et al. v. Pennsylvania et al., the U.S. Supreme...more

Supreme Court Upholds Rules Expanding Exemptions To ACA’s Contraceptive Mandate

Fisher Phillips on 7/14/2020

The Supreme Court just upheld two Trump-era rules expanding religious and moral exemptions to the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) contraceptive mandate. The July 8 decision in Little Sisters of the Poor v. Pennsylvania is just...more

Supreme Court Upholds Exemption to ACA’s Contraceptive Mandate

Ballard Spahr LLP on 7/13/2020

In Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania, the Supreme Court this week upheld regulations issued by the U.S. Departments of Treasury, Labor, and Health and Human Services (the Departments) that...more

SCOTUS Gives Religious Exemptions Wide Berth in Two Key Employment Rulings

Franczek P.C. on 7/10/2020

On July 8, the U.S. Supreme Court issued two 7-2 decisions involving religious exemptions to federal employment and benefits laws....more

New Supreme Court Ruling Allows Religious Employers to Exempt Birth Control from Health Care Coverage

Burr & Forman on 7/10/2020

This week, the Supreme Court ruled that employers may exclude coverage for birth control from their health plans based upon moral or religious objections to contraception. ...more

Religious exemption carries in U.S. Supreme Court decision on preventive reproductive care

Bricker Graydon LLP on 7/10/2020

Until this week, federal law required most insurance plans to cover the cost of birth control without a copay. However, the history behind this issue can be traced back much further....more

Supreme Court Decides Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania and Trump v. Pennsylvania

Faegre Drinker Biddle & Reath LLP on 7/9/2020

On July 8, 2020, the U.S. Supreme Court decided Little Sisters of the Poor Saints Peter and Paul Home v. Pennsylvania and Trump v. Pennsylvania, holding that the Department of Health and Human Services validly created...more

Ninth Circuit Upholds HHS Authority on Abortion Gag Rule

King & Spalding on 3/9/2020

On February 24, 2020, the Ninth Circuit, sitting en banc, upheld the Trump administration’s regulation that prohibits grantees under Title X of the Public Health Service Act from referring patients for, or otherwise...more

Supreme Court to Again Review Obamacare Contraception Mandate

Parker Poe Adams & Bernstein LLP on 2/3/2020

On January 17, the U.S. Supreme Court agreed to hear arguments over the legality of the Affordable Care Act’s contraception mandate. This is the third case on the mandate to receive Supreme Court review....more

Uncertain Fate of Affordable Care Act and 2017 Rules Creating New Exemptions to ACA’s Contraception Coverage Requirements; New...

Genova Burns LLC on 1/22/2020

On December 18, 2019 the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Fifth Circuit, in a 2-1 decision which the court revised on January 9, declared the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA’s) individual health insurance mandate unconstitutional as...more

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