Richard H. Hughes, IV, Member of the Firm in the Health Care & Life Sciences practice, in the firm’s Washington, DC, office, was quoted in Inside Health Policy, in “Fifth Circuit Maintains ACA Preventive Mandate; but Remands Vaccine, Birth Control,” by Amy Lotven. (Read the full version – subscription required.)
Following is an excerpt:
Numerous ACA advocates and other stakeholders are relieved the Fifth Circuit Court of Appeals ruled Friday (June 21) that HHS can enforce the law’s preventive coverage mandate on everyone but the plaintiffs in Braidwood Management et al v. Becerra et al, but stress the fight over cost-free coverage is far from over as the court also remanded questions on the mandates to cover vaccines and birth control to a lower court. In the high-profile case, first filed in 2020, ...
