Employers Pause Plans to Make Abortion Pills Easier to Access

Employers that had been considering expanding how their health plans cover the abortion drug mifepristone to make it easier to get are putting those plans on hold as they watch a legal challenge that has reached the US Supreme Court, an employee benefits attorney says.

Employers had been considering adding coverage of the drug as a pharmacy benefit in addition to covering it under their medical plans, Katie Bjornstad Amin, a principal with Groom Law Group, said in an interview. Adding pharmacy coverage would make the drug available through telemedicine, she said.

But that was before an April 7 order ...