#contraceptive coverage

White House Acts to Roll Back Obama Administration’s Birth-Control Mandate for Religious Employers

President Trump and Vice President Mike Pence with House Republicans on May 4, after the House passed legislation to repeal major parts of the Affordable Care Act. (Credit: Stephen Crowley/The New York Times) Federal officials, following through on a pledge by President Trump, have drafted a rule to roll back a federal requirement that many religious employers provide birth control coverage in…

Confirm Health Plan Contraceptive & Colonoscopy Coverage Meets Latest FAQ ACA Preventive Care Guidance

Employer and other group health plan sponsors, fiduciaries and administrators and  individual and group health insurers should confirm their plan documents and practices comply with new additional guidance on when the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) preventive care mandates set forth in Public Health Services (PHS) Act section 2713, the Employee Retirement Income Security Act…

Herring signs on to amicus brief backing women’s access to birth control

Attorney General Mark R. Herring announced today that Virginia has joined a coalition of 16 states and the District of Columbia in a friend-of-the-court brief in the U.S. Supreme Court case of Zubik, et al. v. Burwell et al., urging the Court to protect women’s access to contraceptive coverage under the Affordable Care Act (ACA). “Virginia women should never have affordable access to…

U.S. Appeals Court Rules President Obama’s Healthcare Law Violates Religious Freedom

A man looks over the Affordable Care Act (commonly known as Obamacare) signup page on the HealthCare.gov website in New York in this October 2, 2013 photo illustration. (REUTERS/MIKE SEGAR) A U.S. appeals court has ruled that President Barack Obama’s healthcare law violates the rights of religiously affiliated employers by forcing them to help provide contraceptive coverage even though they do…

Planned Parenthood disappointed by State Senate committee inaction on contraceptive coverage

Today, rather than taking a vote on SB1277 Contraceptive Equity, members of the Senate Commerce and Labor Committee referred the bill to the Health Insurance Reform Commission, thus delaying substantive reform for the year.

Virginia law currently allows insurers that offer prescription drug coverage to deny coverage for birth control, denying women what is considered by the Institute of Medicine…