Tag: Section 1557
TLDEF Statement on Nationwide Preliminary Injunction Issued in the Northern District of Texas
In May 2016 the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (“HHS”) issued groundbreaking regulations clarifying that Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act prohibits several forms of discrimination that still unfortunately plague our nation’s healthcare system.
TLDEF Applauds Nationwide Ban on Transgender Health Care Discrimination
The Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund (TLDEF) applauds new regulations prohibiting health care discrimination against transgender people across the United States. Adopted today by the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), the protections ensure equal access for communities that have long been excluded from the health care system.
HHS Implements Critical New Regulation to Protect LGBT People From Discrimination in Healthcare
New regulation makes clear that transgender people must be treated consistent with their gender identity and cannot be denied care provided to anyone else, even when it’s transition-related care.
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.