Medicare Ban on Sex-Reassignment Surgery Lifted
Posted on AllSides May 31st, 2014
From The Center
Transgender people who receive Medicare benefits will no longer be automatically denied coverage for sex-reassignment surgery, a federal review board ruled Friday.
The decision means that Medicare, the federal health insurance program for seniors and those with disabilities, will now cover sex-reassignment surgery on a case-by-case basis rather than routinely denying the surgery under guidance adopted during the 1980s.
Although the Department of He
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