Mealey's (February 2, 2022, 11:30 AM EST) -- BOSTON — A health plan’s refusal to cover nonrestorative speech therapy because a beneficiary suffers from autism spectrum disorder (ASD) may violate the Mental Health Parity and Addition Equity Act (Parity Act), the First Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ruled Jan. 31, partly reversing dismissal of a suit brought by the child’s parents and saying a Massachusetts federal court bought “into the defendants' representations of how the Plan works too much for this stage in the litigation.”...