It's Not the '80s Anymore: Transition-Related Care Is Basic Health Care
Category: QUEER VOICES
Determinations of what medical treatments are covered by Medicare are made mostly by regional decision-making bodies, but there is a small number of national rules -- called NCDs -- regarding whether certain treatments are covered by Medicare. In 1981, HHS issued an NCD that Medicare does not cover transition-related health care.
By James D. Esseks, ContributorDirector of the ACLU Lesbian Gay Bisexual Transgender & AIDS P..., 2014-05-30