Tag: HHS
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.
HHS Announces Further Efforts In Support of LGBT Health
On the heels of a report issued yesterday by the Institute of Medicine (IOM) calling for more federal research and data collection on the health of LGBT people, today the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) announced the results of an internal review of additional ways in which that department could address additional LGBT healthcare issues.
Federal Report Demonstrates Need for Research and Data on LGBT Health
An Institute of Medicine (IOM) report released today shows in stunning clarity the need for more federal research and data collection on the health of LGBT people.
Report Details Significant Health Disparities in Aging California Lesbian, Gay, and Bisexual Population; National Study on LGBT Health Coming Thursday
In response to a report released yesterday by the UCLA Center for Health Policy Research showing that California’s ageing lesbian, gay and bisexual population are more likely to suffer from certain chronic conditions, the Human Rights Campaign, the America’s largest lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender civil rights organisation, called on the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to strengthen its efforts to address the health needs of lesbian, gay, bisexual and transgender (LGBT) people, including a commitment to collect LGBT health data through federal health surveys and programs.