ACA Mandates Lactation Services Coverage, Not Provider List, 8th Circuit Says

Mealey's (July 14, 2020, 9:37 AM EDT) -- ST. LOUIS — The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) mandates that insurers cover out-of-network lactation services if they do not offer in-network care, but nothing in the law requires them to expand their networks or provide a list of services offered by each covered provider, the Eighth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals said July 13 (Jillian York, et al. v. Wellmark Inc., et al., No. 19-1705, 8th Cir.)....