On the heels of the Supreme Court's decision to overturn Roe v. Wade, several big-name companies such as Microsoft, Nike and Tesla have announced that they plan to assist employees who live in places where abortion is restricted to travel out-of-state to undergo the procedure.
But how that might actually work and what pitfalls employers and employees might encounter remains to be seen.
"I think a lot of employers in reaction to the Dobbs decision are making these very public statements that they're going to offer abortion travel benefits," says Bethany Corbin, senior counsel at Nixon Gwilt Law, a firm that specializes in healthcare law.
"A lot of them have not operationalized that yet," Corbin says. "They're still working through how this actually works in practice."
While it's still early, experts say a few potential options may soon take shape. If the company has an employer-funded medical plan, for example, abortion-related travel benefits could simply be folded into the coverage and administered through an existing plan.
"You go to your employer or the insurance company that they've retained and you say, 'I want to get an abortion.' And part of that involves travel to another state," says Robert Field, a professor of health management and policy at Drexel University.
The primary benefit of that approach is that "it really protects the privacy of the employee," Corbin says, adding that patient data under such...
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