chip funding · gender-affirming care
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CMS Ends Federal Medicaid and CHIP Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Children and Youth
CMS Ends Federal Medicaid and CHIP Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Children and Youth The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) is implementing an administration priority consistent with its commitment to protect children from experimental and life-altering sex-rejecting procedures that carry serious long-term health risks and lack sufficiently reliable evidence of clinical benefit. The final rule ends the use of federal Medicaid and CHIP funds to pay for these procedures on...
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CMS ends Medicaid, CHIP funding for gender-affirming care for minors
The Trump administration has finalized a rule that would pull funding for gender-affirming care for minors from Medicaid and the Children's Health Insurance Program.
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CMS finalizes ban on Medicaid, CHIP funding for gender-affirming care provided to children
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services yesterday released a final rule that prohibits states from receiving federal matching funds for “sex-rejecting procedures” for Medicaid beneficiaries under the age of 18, and for Children’s Health Insurance Program beneficiaries in certain states under the age of 19. The final rule does not prevent states from providing coverage for these services with state-only funds. CMS said that federal Medicaid and CHIP funding will be available for a taperin...
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Medicaid Program; Prohibition on Federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program Funding for Sex-Rejecting Procedures Furnished to Children
This final rule requires that a State Medicaid plan must provide that the Medicaid agency will not make payment under the plan for sex-rejecting procedures for children under 18, and prohibits the use of Federal Medicaid dollars to fund sex-rejecting procedures for individuals under the age of 18. In addition, this final rule requires that a separate State Children's Health Insurance Program (CHIP) plan must provide that the CHIP agency will not make payment under the plan for sex-rejecting p...
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Trump administration cuts Medicaid funding for youth gender-affirming care
CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz argues the rule will protect children from "irreversible harm." LGBTQ+ advocates say the rule is an attack on transgender youth.