An administrative law judge has ruled that Yellowstone County discriminated against a transgender attorney who was denied medical treatment through the county's health plan.
A former Yellowstone County employee has been awarded $66,000 in compensation following a 2020 ruling that Yellowstone County and Yellowstone County Board of Commissioners discriminated against the transgender woman on the basis of sex when denying her medical coverage for gender-affirming care.
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February 1, 2021
On Friday in the Western District of Oklahoma, OU Medical Center (OUMC) filed a complaint against W.H. Braum Group Health Benefit Plan and sponsoring corporation W.H. Braum Inc., alleging that the defendants have deprived certain patients of benefits, thus denying OUMC compensation to which it claims it is entitled, in violation of the health plan itself and the Employee Retirement Income Security Act (ERISA).
Braum employee and plan participant Joshua Hale and his wife and plan beneficiary, Leah Hale, recently had prematurely born twins who required treatment at the neonatal intensive care unit (NICU) at OUMC, which is the only hospital in the Oklahoma City area with a Level IV NICU, the complaint explained. The twins stayed at OUMC from Aug. 3, 2018, through Nov. 16, 2018, and were treated for various health concerns.