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Aetna agrees to expand gender-affirming coverage for transgender women

Aetna agrees to expand gender-affirming coverage for transgender women Eliza Fawcett, Hartford Courant © Brad Horrigan/Hartford Courant/TNS/Hartford Courant/TNS Aetna, the Hartford-based health insurer owned by Woonsocket, R.I-based CVS Health Corp., is keeping the majority of its office employees working from home until at least the beginning of 2021. Hartford-based health insurer Aetna has agreed to expand its coverage of gender-affirming surgeries to include breast augmentation for qualifying transgender women. The decision is a result of a collaboration between Aetna, the Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, a civil rights organization; Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll, a national civil rights law firm; and four women who were denied coverage for the surgery, which Aetna previously viewed as cosmetic. The group first contacted Aetna in 2019, hoping to resolve the issue collaboratively, in lieu of filing a lawsuit.

Aetna Agrees to Expand Coverage for Gender-Affirming Surgeries

Trans women persuade Aetna to expand insurance coverage

Aetna to Expand Coverage for Gender-Affirming Surgeries

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.

After advocacy by transgender women, Aetna agrees to expand insurance coverage for gender-affirming surgeries