Women:  Insurer Can’t Create Barriers To ACA-Mandated Lactation Services

Mealey's (August 12, 2019, 1:33 PM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) cannot simultaneously require coverage for lactation services while permitting insurers to place administrative barriers that make obtaining that care impossible, two women tell the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals in an Aug. 7 reply brief (Jillian York, et al. v. Wellmark Inc., et al., No. 19-1705, 8th Cir.)....