Stay Pending Appeal Best Choice In ACA Discrimination Case, Judge Says

(January 24, 2024, 2:14 PM EST) -- TACOMA, Wash. — Staying a case while an insurer appeals a ruling finding that it violated Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) Section 1557’s prohibition on discrimination by imposing a blanket exclusion on gender-affirming care ensures that it does not have to take actions that would be difficult to undo and leaves the plaintiffs with the status quo, a federal judge in Washington said in granting the relief....