AUGUSTA, Maine (AP) - Maine has begun to make it easier to receive coverage for transgender health services.
Maine Public reports that the state Department of Health and Human Services is removing transgender-specific health services from the list of non-covered procedures under the state’s Medicaid program.
MaineTransnet Executive Director Quinn Gormley says the state hasn’t specified what exactly is covered yet.
That’ll be figured out in a rulemaking process this year. The state expects the change will have a minimal fiscal impact.
The department’s spokesperson says Maine was only one of eight states whose Medicaid program had maintained or enforced exclusion of transition-related health care.
Former President Obama’s signature health law had prohibited sex discrimination in Medicaid.
Maine’s health and human services agency had announced the change in an emergency ruling Tuesday.
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