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Title: Federal Judge Says State Not Obligated to Pay for Sex-Change Surgery
Post by: Natasha on July 28, 2009, 11:03:19 AM
Post by: Natasha on July 28, 2009, 11:03:19 AM
Federal Judge Says State Not Obligated to Pay for Sex-Change Surgery
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202432579448&Federal_Judge_Says_State_Not_Obligated_to_Pay_for_SexChange_Surgery (http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202432579448&Federal_Judge_Says_State_Not_Obligated_to_Pay_for_SexChange_Surgery)
7/28/09
New York state is not obligated to pay for gender reassignment surgery for a Medicaid recipient, even though it provided coverage for individual procedures that are necessary preliminaries to the change, a federal judge in Buffalo has determined.
http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202432579448&Federal_Judge_Says_State_Not_Obligated_to_Pay_for_SexChange_Surgery (http://www.law.com/jsp/article.jsp?id=1202432579448&Federal_Judge_Says_State_Not_Obligated_to_Pay_for_SexChange_Surgery)
7/28/09
New York state is not obligated to pay for gender reassignment surgery for a Medicaid recipient, even though it provided coverage for individual procedures that are necessary preliminaries to the change, a federal judge in Buffalo has determined.