Nurse’s Obamacare Suit Over Transgender Care Exclusion Proceeds

A St. Louis hospital is facing suit over a nurse’s claim that her employee insurance plan’s blanket exclusion of coverage for transgender care violates the Affordable Care Act, after a ruling from a federal court in Missouri.

Angelia Scott sufficiently alleged that the St. Louis University Hospital plan’s refusal to pay for her transgender son’s care deprived her of a plan benefit and constituted discrimination on the basis of sex in violation of Section 1557 of the ACA, the U.S. District Court for the Eastern District of Missouri said.

But Scott can’t proceed on a claim that the exclusion violates ...