LGBTQ Health Providers Partially Prevail In ACA Discrimination Rule Challenge

Mealey's (September 4, 2020, 12:55 PM EDT) -- WASHINGTON, D.C. — A federal agency's apparent disregard for the potential impact Bostock v. Clayton County, Georgia could have on the validity of a Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) rule excluding sex stereotyping and gender identity from the definition of discrimination and the harm LGBTQ health providers face from the rule's fallout warrant partially enjoining the rule, a federal judge in the District of Columbia said Sept. 2 (Whitman-Walker Clinic, et al. v. U.S. Department of Health and Human Services, et al., No. 20-1630, D. D.C., 2020 U.S. Dist. LEXIS 159951)....