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Federal Board Overturns Medicare Exclusion of Transition-Related Care

Washington, DC–(ENEWSPF)–May 30, 2014 – An independent board within the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services today ruled that a Medicare policy from 1989 that categorically excluded transition-related medical procedures, regardless of medical need, is unreasonable and invalid based on today’s medical science.

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Learn more about how this ruling affects transgender people in our Fact Sheet on Medicare Coverage of Transition-Related Care.

In response to this development, National Center for Transgender Equality (NCTE) Executive…

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