All posts tagged "US Department of Health and Human Services"
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Transgender Medicine: Medicare Access to What?
By Eric Plemons After a debilitating injury at work left Shane Smith permanently disabled, he joined the ranks of more than 50 million Americans who...
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Medicare’s New Coverage for “Transsexual Surgery” Relies on Dated Notions of Gender
By Eric Plemons In 1981, the US Department of Health and Human Services (DHHS) created a Medicare National Coverage Determination (NCD) that declared, “the surgical procedures...
