Roe V. Wade Overturned: Group Health Plan Considerations

As anticipated based on the draft opinion leaked in May, the U.S. Supreme Court, in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health, overturned Roe v. Wade in a 6-3 decision released on June 24th. The Dobbs decision ends the constitutional right to abortion and grants states the ability to set their own restrictions, which means that the group health plan coverage implications will depend on the location of the employer, the location of a participant at the time of service, the plan’s funding mechanism, and the employer’s risk tolerance.

Read more about the implications of this decision for group health plans.