Penn adds transgender employee insurance

[SandraJane]

The Daily Pennsylvanian


Penn adds transgender employee insurance


Sexual reassignment surgery coverage for employees will be effective July 1,
Insurance coverage still limited for transgender employees

By Seth Zweifler · February 28, 2012, 11:17 pm

http://thedp.com/index.php/article/2012/02/penn_adds_transgender_employee_insurance


A year after deciding not to extend insurance coverage to transgender employees seeking gender reassignment surgery, Penn has reversed its decision.

The University announced on Feb. 28 in the Penn Almanac that coverage for transgender benefits will be extended to include sexual reassignment surgery under the Aetna Point of Service II plan.

[Shantel]

The University announced on Feb. 28 in the Penn Almanac that coverage for transgender benefits will be extended to include sexual reassignment surgery under the Aetna Point of Service II plan.

Aetna has featured a sexual reassignment surgery plan for some time, in the past I believe there were some parameters for qualifying such as documentation showing some type of physical gender ambiguity to warrant coverage of the procedure. This may have changed since then, it bares looking into by anyone interested!