Medicaid

January 24, 2014

by Ross Murray, Senior Director, GLAAD Media Institute

Autostraddle: Trans-exclusionary Medicaid regulations are terrible, awareness campaign is awesome

Autostraddle recently highlighted the New York Medicaid campaign being run jointly by the Sylvia Rivera Law Project, GLAAD, and TransJustice, a program of the Audre Lorde Project.

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November 15, 2013

by Doug Keeler, Communications and Public Relations Intern at GLAAD

Take action: end healthcare discrimination for transgender people

Sylvia Rivera Law Project and GLAAD have launched a campaign calling on policymakers to make health care safe and accessible to all, including transgender and gender non-conforming people.

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April 2, 2013

by Mari Haywood

HHS drops 'public comment' process on medicare/medicaid covering transgender healthcare

The Health and Human Services Department has decided to forgo the public comment process, and instead rely on a panel of experts to determine whether to lift its 32 year-old policy against covering Sex Reassignment Surgery (SRS) in its Medicare and Medicaid Services.

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