NY Insurance Covers Reassignment Surgery!
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Here's an interesting development:
http://mobile.nytimes.com/2014/12/11/nyregion/in-new-york-in...
Quoting the story:
"Now Gov. Andrew M. Cuomo is warning insurance companies that they will no longer be allowed to deny gender reassignment surgery or other treatment to change a person’s gender, like hormone therapy, if a doctor has deemed that treatment medically necessary.
"In a letter being sent to insurance companies this week, the governor said that because state law requires insurance coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of psychological disorders, people who are found to have a mismatch between their birth sex and their internal sense of gender are entitled to insurance coverage for treatments related to that condition, called gender dysphoria.
“'An issuer of a policy that includes coverage for mental health conditions may not exclude coverage for the diagnosis and treatment of gender dysphoria,' the governor’s letter says."
Read the whole thing, and be jealous that our state has a decent governor.