Aetna agrees to expand transition surgery coverage
Jan 26, 2021 |
Transgender Legal Defense and Education Fund and Cohen Millstein Sellers & Toll, a national civil rights law firm, announced a deal with health insurance provider Aetna to expand the insurance carrier’s medical coverage of transition-related care for transgender women.
On its website, Aetna announced it had “expanded coverage of gender-affirming surgery to include breast augmentation for transfeminine members of most of its commercial plans” and included the caveat, “subject to plan terms and other requirements.”
TLDEF wrote in its press release, “According to a national study, more than half (55%) of transgender people who sought coverage for transition-related surgery in the past year were denied.”
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Aetna Agrees to Expand Coverage for Gender-Affirming Surgeries
One of the nation’s largest health insurers is agreeing to pay for breast augmentation for some trans women.
Two years ago, Cora Brna, a health care worker in Pittsburgh, was devastated to learn that her insurance would not cover the breast augmentation she had planned to have along with a genital reassignment surgery.Credit.Sarah Huny Young for The New York Times
Jan. 26, 2021
Allison Escolastico, a 30-year-old transgender woman, has wanted breast augmentation surgery for a decade. By 2019, she finally thought her insurance company, Aetna, would pay for it, only to find that it considered the procedure cosmetic, not medically necessary, and refused to cover it.
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