beneficii wrote:
This is on Transsexual Surgery and is a major step forward to getting transition-related care covered in the USA (PDF):
http://www.hhs.gov/dab/decisions/dabdec ... cd1403.pdfreally, really, really bad ... "The submissions of the aggrieved party and the amici curiae, to which the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) elected not to respond to defend the NCD, demonstrate that the premises for the NCD (National Coverage Determination),
which was based on a 1981 review of medical and scientific sources published between 1966 and 1980, are not reasonable in light of subsequent developments."
1981 was their last review of their assumption that medicare did not need to treat this ....
08 Dec 2013, 4:36 pm
