Court: ACA Doesn’t Bar Balance-Billing Ban, But Discrimination Case Well Pleaded

(June 15, 2017, 10:33 AM EDT) -- LOS ANGELES — A doctor adequately alleges that California officials disciplined her under regulations barring balance billing based on her race and sex but provides no support for her claim that the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) permits the practice, a California appellate court held June 12 (Jeannette Martello v. California Department of Managed Health Care, et al., No. BS144854, Calif. App., 2nd Dist., 2017 Cal. App. Unpub. LEXIS 4021)....

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