CVS Units Must Face HIV Bias Suit Over Medication Distribution

HIV/AIDS patients who object to a CVS Pharmacy Inc. policy limiting where they can receive specialty medications advanced their lawsuit when a California federal judge said the company’s subsidiaries were likely subject to the Affordable Care Act’s rules prohibiting discrimination.

The patients adequately alleged that the CVS defendants receive the federal funding necessary to make them subject to the nondiscrimination rules of the ACA, Judge Edward M. Chen of the US District Court for the Northern District of California said in an Aug. 5 opinion. Section 1557 of the ACA “broadly applies” to any health program or activity in which ...