( June 23, 2025, 9:50 AM EDT) -- PASADENA, Calif. — The same day the U.S. Supreme Court issued its ruling in United States v. Skrmetti, the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals ordered supplemental briefing in an appeal where a third-party administrator (TPA) seeks reversal of a ruling that it violated the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA)’s discrimination provision by administering exclusions of gender-affirming care; the parties are to address “how, if at all, this case is affected” by Skrmetti....