Insurer Prevails On ERISA, Parity Act Claims; ACA Autism Therapy Claim Proceeds

Mealey's (March 18, 2021, 2:11 PM EDT) -- INDIANAPOLIS — An insurance plan’s blanket exclusion on autism treatments dooms both facial and as-applied challenges under the Employee Retirement Income Security Act and Parity Act, but because a health care provider who receives federal funds offers the self-funded plan, the discrimination claim brought under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) may proceed, a federal judge in Indiana said March 16 in partially granting judgment to the defendants....