Board rules Medicare can pay for sex reassignment surgery
[JURIST] The Departmental Appeals Board of Health and Human Services (DAB) [official website] on Friday
revoked a National Coverage Determination (NCD) [December HHS Summary]
barring Medicare payment for gender reassignment surgeries. The revoked
NCD was issued in 1981 [HHS index] and refused to pay [advocacy
backgrounder] for surgery as a treatment for gender dysphoria due to a
lack of knowledge about the safety of the surgery. Citing modern studies
on the effects of surgery as a treatment for gender dysphoria,...
[more].
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