Societal Implications of Health Insurance Coverage for Medically Necessary Services in the U.S. Transgender Population: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Padula, William V.; Heru, Shiona; Campbell, Jonathan D.

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“…Multiple observational studies have suggested significant and sometimes dramatic reductions in suicidality, suicide attempts, and suicides among transgender patients after receiving transition-related treatment (State of California, 2012, p. 10). A study by Padula, Heru, and Campbell (2015) found that removing exclusions on transgender care "could change the trajectory of health for all transgender persons" at a minimal cost per member per month. 8 However, we caution that it is not known how well these findings generalize to military personnel.…”

Section: Potential Consequences Of Not Providing Necessary Gender Tramentioning

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Assessing the Implications of Allowing Transgender Personnel to Serve Openly

Schaefer¹,

Iyengar²,

Kadiyala³

et al. 2016

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Section: Potential Consequences Of Not Providing Necessary Gender Tramentioning

confidence: 99%

Assessing the Implications of Allowing Transgender Personnel to Serve Openly

Schaefer¹,

Iyengar²,

Kadiyala³

et al. 2016

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“…A lack of individuals with relevant training may prolong already lengthy wait times for patients seeking transgender-specific surgical care in the United States. [5][6][7] No studies to date have evaluated the degree to which surgical residents are educated in the care of the transgender patient. 5,[8][9][10][11] This study aims to describe the level of transgender-oriented education currently provided in surgical training programs, a surrogate for the surgical community's preparedness to treat patients seeking gender transition.…”

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Transgender-Related Education in Plastic Surgery and Urology Residency Programs

Morrison¹,

Dy²,

Chong³

et al. 2017

Journal of Graduate Medical Education

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“…), and the explicit exclusion of trans‐ specific coverage from insurances in particular (Padula and Baker ; Padula et al. ), there simply are not enough trained surgeons in the United States to respond to the rapid increased demand for trans‐ surgery (Arnold et al. ; Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Foundation ; Puckett et al.…”

Section: The Past and Rapidly Changing Present Of Us Trans‐ Medicinmentioning

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“…Following decades in which trans-surgical specialists were marginalized and prospective patient demand was poorly understood due to the difficulty of quantifying the trans-population in general (Reisner et al 2015), 11 and the explicit exclusion of trans-specific coverage from insurances in particular (Padula and Baker 2017;Padula et al 2016), there simply are not enough trained surgeons in the United States to respond to the rapid increased demand for trans-surgery (Arnold et al 2017;Harvard Pilgrim Healthcare Foundation 2017;Puckett et al 2017;Rowniak et al 2017;Shukla et al 2014). In addition to a shortage of technical expertise, clinicians, administrators, and prospective patients are now challenged to integrate the unique best-practice treatment program of transition-related medicine into health care systems whose policies, practices, and workflows have explicitly excluded it for more than three decades.…”

Section: The Past and Rapidly Changing Present Of Us Trans-medicinementioning

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A Capable Surgeon and a Willing Electrologist: Challenges to the Expansion of Transgender Surgical Care in the United States

Plemons

2019

Med Anthropol Q

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Since 2014, public and private insurance coverage for transgender Americans’ surgical care has increased exponentially. Training clinicians and equipping institutions to meet the surge in demand has not been as rapid. Through ethnographic research at a surgical workshop focused on trans‐ genital reconstruction and in a U.S. hospital working to grow its transgender health program, this article shows that effects of the decades‐long insurance exclusion of trans‐ surgery are not easily remedied through the recent event of its inclusion because patient access is not the only thing that has been restricted by coverage denial. Decades of excluding coverage for trans‐ genital reconstructive surgery have limited the development and circulation of technical skills required to perform these procedures, as well as the administrative processes needed to integrate them into existing clinical workflows. One surgeon estimates that turning expanded access into realized care is “a five or six‐year problem.”

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Societal Implications of Health Insurance Coverage for Medically Necessary Services in the U.S. Transgender Population: A Cost-Effectiveness Analysis

Cited by 109 publications

References 28 publications

Assessing the Implications of Allowing Transgender Personnel to Serve Openly

Assessing the Implications of Allowing Transgender Personnel to Serve Openly

Transgender-Related Education in Plastic Surgery and Urology Residency Programs

A Capable Surgeon and a Willing Electrologist: Challenges to the Expansion of Transgender Surgical Care in the United States

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