Transgender Insurance Exclusions Lifted in Maryland

[stephaniec]

Transgender Insurance Exclusions Lifted in Maryland

http://www.edgeboston.com/news/news/189898/http://www.edgeboston.com/news/news/189898/transgender_insurance_exclusions_lifted_in_maryland_exclusions_lifted_in_maryland

Edge Boston/by John Riley/Metro Weekly/Saturday Nov 28, 2015

"The majority of Maryland's transgender residents will be able to have medically necessary health care treatments covered by insurance, following a groundbreaking announcement by FreeState Legal.

FreeState Legal, the civil legal aid organization that works on behalf of low-income LGBT Marylanders, announced on Thursday that CareFirst, the state's largest health insurer, and Maryland Medical Assistance, the state's Medicaid program, had removed exclusions that had heretofore prevented treatments for gender dysphoria from being covered, forcing many transgender individuals to pay out-of-pocket costs or go without the treatments related to gender transition."

[suzifrommd]

Headline is misleading. It only effects people who are insured with that one insurer. It's still up to individual insurers whether to cover us.

[Tysilio]

This is great news. It's a huge victory for us that another state is now covering trans-related health care under its Medicaid system.