Mealey's (March 3, 2022, 10:55 AM EST) -- SEATTLE — Allegations that hearing loss affects a range of individuals and that an insurer’s exclusion on most hearing loss treatments acts as a form of proxy discrimination fail to meet the standard recently announced by the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals for discriminatory benefit design under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA), a federal judge in Washington said Jan. 31....