Teens: Arizona Medicaid Exclusion On Transgender Surgery Violates ACA

Mealey's (May 28, 2021, 1:18 PM EDT) -- PHOENIX — Arizona’s exclusion of Medicaid coverage for transgender surgery runs afoul of anti-discrimination provisions of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) and violates recent U.S. Supreme Court precedent, two teens say in a May 14 brief filed in an interlocutory appeal to the Ninth Circuit U.S. Court of Appeals of a ruling denying them injunctive relief....