ACA Discrimination Claims Over Transgender Surgery Exclusion Head To Trial

Mealey's (September 26, 2018, 1:38 PM EDT) -- MADISON, Wis. — A federal judge on Sept. 24 cut some damage claims from an upcoming trial on an insurance policy’s prohibition on gender reassignment treatments after finding that the plaintiffs could proceed on allegations that the exclusion violated the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and other federal law (Alina Boyden and Shannon Andrews v. Wisconsin Department of Employee Trust Funds, et al., No. 17-264, W.D. Wis.)....