Groom’s Xavier Baker, principal, was featured by Law360 in the article, “7 Gender-Affirming Care Cases To Watch In 2024’s 2nd Half,” where he covered potential issues that may arise as gender-affirming care cases are decided.
According to Law360, Baker noted that “with all the restrictions popping up, many private employer health plans continue to discuss ways to preserve healthcare access for beneficiaries in states where their treatment could be cut off, such as travel benefits.”
“These are not abstract legal issues. They affect real people, and they affect deeply personal concerns,” Baker said. “That issue is not lost on plan sponsors and carriers.”
“The fact that interruptions to ongoing care could be significantly harmful is absolutely something that folks are considering and trying to find solutions for,” he added.
Law360 reported that Baker said that “he’s monitoring how the Tennessee-led case proceeds, particularly because it involves questions of how courts should interpret federal rules in the wake of the Supreme Court repealing Chevron deference in Loper Bright Enterprises v. Raimondo.”
“Now, you have a different landscape where there’s not this deferential standard,” Baker said. The platform furtherreported that Baker added that “to the extent that litigation over gender-affirming care is tied to challenges of regulations, ‘it’s a different can of worms.’”
“At least in the 1557 cases, I think there’s a lot more opportunity for cases to percolate and potentially reach different outcomes,” he said.
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