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Contraception Coverage
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Labor & Employment Insights
“Opt Out” Accommodation Under Affordable Care Act Validated After Challenge from Religious Objectors
In what continues to be a controversial and developing area of employment law, a federal appellate court recently validated the Affordable Care Act’s (ACA) “opt out” provision, finding that requiring…
Health Care Reform Dashboard
Final Rules for Preventive Services
By Alisa M. Gifford, Edward I. Leeds
The U.S. Departments of Treasury, Labor (DOL) and Health and Human Services (HHS) have issued interim final regulations and Frequently Asked Questions and Answers on the cost-free coverage of preventive…
Health Care Reform Dashboard
Guidance Clarifies Certain Preventive Care Requirements
By Edward I. Leeds, Jean C. Hemphill
Recent guidance issued jointly by the U.S. Departments of Labor, Health and Human Services, and the Treasury clarifies how the Affordable Care Act's requirement to provide cost-free coverage for preventive…
Health Law Rx
Religious Freedom and the Affordable Care Act
The fascinating interplay that weaves between the First and Fifth Amendments to the U.S. Constitution, the Religious Freedom Restoration Act (RFRA) and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)…
Constitutional Law Prof Blog
D.C. Circuit Upholds Contraception Opt-Out for Religious Nonprofits
Steven D. Schwinn, John Marshall Law SchoolThe D.C. Circuit today upheld HHS accommodations to religious nonprofits that object to complying with contraception requirements under agency regs and the ACA. The…
Management Memo
ACA Update: DC Circuit Stays Halbig, Upholds Accommodation for Contraceptive Coverage
Our colleague Stuart Gerson of Epstein Becker Green posted “DC Circuit Stays Halbig Action Pending SCOTUS Review of King, Upholds Accommodation for Contraceptive Coverage” on the Health Law Advisor blog.…
Health Care and Life Sciences
DC Circuit Stays Halbig Action Pending SCOTUS Review of King, Upholds Accommodation for Contraceptive Coverage
Only last week, we informed you of the Supreme Court's somewhat surprising grant of cert. in the Fourth Circuit case of King v. Burwell, in which the court of appeals…
Real Lawyers Have Blogs
Top 10 in Law Blogs: Virtual Currency, Contraceptive Coverage, Time Management
This comes out as most of you—I imagine— are already out trick-or-treating your little ones but, for those who aren't, time for the last Top 10 of the week. It…
Health Industry Washington Watch
New Postings on the Reed Smith Health Industry Washington Watch Blog
The Reed Smith Health Industry Washington Watch blog (http://www.healthindustrywashingtonwatch.com) has been updated to report on recent health policy developments, including the following: -- Regulatory Developments. Recent CMS regulations have addressed…
Health Industry Washington Watch
HHS Revises ACA Contraception Coverage Requirements
The Obama Administration has issued two regulations addressing coverage of contraceptive services under QHPs in response to recent court rulings (in particular the Supreme Court ruling in Burwell v. Hobby…