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,...

Source: http://jurist.org/paperchase/2014/05/board-rules-medicare-can-pay-for-sex-reassignment-surgery.php

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