The Next Challenge for Abortion Coverage in Employer Health Plans

Summary

Reproductive health has been central to the employer conversation around enhancing women's health benefits—and women's health and wellbeing as a result—for several years now. It's not uncommon today for large employers to expand fertility and other family forming benefits, as well as benefits and services to support women through menopause. Contraception and, for many women, abortion access are also integral to reproductive health and family planning. Employers didn't shy away from discussing abortion in the wake of the Supreme Court's Dobbs decision overturning Roe last summer. Some chose to review plan coverage and work with carriers, third-party administrators (TPAs), and other vendors to shore up abortion access as best they could. But this is about to get more challenging.