“Aetna Expands Coverage to Include a Gender-Affirming Procedure,” Bloomberg

Aetna, one of the largest U.S. health insurers, is expanding its coverage of gender-affirming surgeries to include breast augmentation for transgender women.

The change comes after a group of four transgender women challenged Aetna’s classification of breast augmentation as a cosmetic surgery that’s excluded from coverage. The women, who were aided by law firm Cohen Milstein Sellers & Toll and the nonprofit Transgender Legal Defense & Education Fund, had to persuade Aetna that the surgery was medically necessary.

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