Mail-Order Drug Dispute Could Clarify Obamacare Bias Protections

The U.S. Supreme Court should review a decision that clears the way for people with disabilities to sue drug benefit plan administrators for bias based on how their plans operate, partly because it may limit discretion in how plans are structured, trade groups are saying.

Friend of the court briefs say the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit got it wrong when it held that HIV/AIDS patients in California could bring a disparate impact claim under Section 504 of the Rehabilitation Act and, by extension, Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act, against plan administrators based on provisions ...