Judge Takes 2nd Look At ACA Essential Benefits Ruling, Again Denies Judgment

Mealey's (February 7, 2018, 2:08 PM EST) -- MILWAUKEE — Congress assigned the job of defining the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) “essential health benefit” language to the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), and nothing necessitated including dialysis treatments prior to 2014, a federal judge in Wisconsin held in once again denying summary judgment Feb. 5 (Fresenius Medical Care Midwest Dialysis LLC, et al. v. Humana Insurance Co., et al., No. 16-711, E.D. Wis., 2018 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 18409)....