Aetna Infertility Coverage Settlement Gets Preliminary Approval

Aetna Life Insurance Co.'s health plans will use a new definition of “fertility” to ensure there’s no difference in fertility care coverage for LGBTQ+ and cisgender members, according to a class action settlement.

It will also pay damages to LGBTQ+ members who incurred out-of-pocket costs to prove infertility under old policies, the settlement adds.

The agreement—preliminarily approved Tuesday by Judge Vernon S. Broderick of the US District Court for the Southern District of New York—ends a dispute in which LGBTQ+ plan members said that they were required to undergo 6 to 12 cycles of fertility care to prove infertility, while ...