ALBANY -- A day after an advisory panel raised the idea of using Medicaid to pay for transgender surgery, Gov. Andrew Cuomo's health department dropped it.
"No consideration is being given to any change in current state policy and any proposal to have gender reassignment surgery funded by Medicaid would be rejected," said state Health Commissioner Dr. Nirav Shah.
On Thursday, the working group for Cuomo's Medicaid Redesign Task Force had proposed to "provide Medicaid coverage for transgender surgery/hormone replacement therapy and treatment." The proposal to use government funds for the surgery for the poor and working poor had not reached the full team, where it could have been recommended or rejected.
California and Minnesota already use Medicaid funds for the surgery.
-- Associated Press
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