Tag: Affordable Care Act
U.S. HHS Rules Transgender Woman to Receive Surgery From Medicare
The United States Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) has ruled for the first time that a transgender person, who was denied genital reconstruction surgery by a Medicare Advantage (Part C) insurer, United Healthcare/AARP Medicare Complete (HMO), is entitled to those benefits.
TLDEF Urges Administration to Adopt Rule to Improve Transgender Health Access
Submits Comments to HHS Supporting Broadest Possible Rule to Ban LGBT Health Care Discrimination.
TLDEF Applauds Obama Administration for Efforts to Ban Transgender Health Care Discrimination Across U.S.
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) applauds the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services’ (HHS) proposed regulation to prohibit health care discrimination against transgender Americans. If adopted, the Nondiscrimination in Health Programs and Activities rule would prohibit discrimination against transgender people in all health care facilities that receive HHS funds and ban the widespread insurance industry practice of excluding coverage for transgender health care in all plans sold by insurance companies that participate in health insurance exchanges.
HHS Proposes Critical Regulation to Protect Transgender People From Discrimination in Healthcare
The proposed regulation is based on protections offered under the Affordable Care Act, and explicitly includes gender identity and sex stereotyping under sex-based discrimination protections.
TLDEF Applauds Guidance Requiring Insurers to Provide Transgender People with Access to Sex-Specific Care Under Affordable Care Act
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) commends the U.S. Departments of Labor, Treasury, and Health and Human Services for issuing guidance yesterday stating that health insurance companies must cover sex-specific preventive care, including mammograms and pap smears, for transgender people. That care must be provided without regard to sex assigned at birth, gender identity, or recorded sex. Transgender people are routinely denied coverage when insurance companies arbitrarily determine that their care does not align with the sex listed in the insurer’s records. The guidance states that insurance companies must cover the medically necessary care transgender people need: