West Virginia Medicaid Must Cover Cost of Transgender Surgical Care

On Aug. 2, a federal judge ruled that West Virginia's Medicaid program must cover gender-affirming surgical care for transgender patients. U.S. District Court Judge Robert Chambers, of the Southern District of West Virginia, ruled that the insurance exclusion contained in the state's Medicaid program — which prohibited coverage for gender confirmation surgery to treat gender […]

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