The ADA is asking the U.S. Supreme Court to review a decision from a lower appeals court on the Employee Retirement Income Security Act of 1974 that limits states’ traditional authority to regulate health care and insurance, and is at odds with a previous Supreme Court decision on the issue.

Dental plans have often claimed that a federal law called ERISA allows them to avoid complying with state laws impacting dental coverage if the plans are operating as administrators for an employer self-funded plan. In its amicus brief to the Supreme Court, the ADA continues to advocate that most state laws, particularly those that protect patients and dentists from abuse by dental insurers, can be applied to all carriers, including those administering self-funded dental plans for employers.

Read more in ADA News and get more information on ERISA at ADA.org/ERISA.