Limited Coverage of Gender-Affirming Breast and Chest Reconstruction in Insurance CPT Coding Criteria

Plast Reconstr Surg. 2020 Aug;146(2):238e-240e. doi: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000007016.

Authors

Gaines Blasdel¹, Ian T Nolan², Alexander B Harris³, Ezra I Young⁴, Alexes Hazen²

Affiliations

¹ Department of Urology.
² Hansjörg Wyss Department of Plastic Surgery, New York University School of Medicine, New York, N.Y.
³ Callen-Lorde Community Health Center, New York, N.Y.
⁴ Law Office of Ezra Young, Brooklyn, N.Y.

PMID: 32740624
DOI: 10.1097/PRS.0000000000007016

No abstract available

MeSH terms

Female
Gender Dysphoria / economics
Gender Dysphoria / surgery*
Humans
Insurance Coverage / economics
Insurance Coverage / legislation & jurisprudence*
Insurance Coverage / statistics & numerical data
Male
Mammaplasty / economics*
Mammaplasty / methods
Mammaplasty / statistics & numerical data
Policy
Sex Reassignment Surgery / economics*
Sex Reassignment Surgery / methods
Sex Reassignment Surgery / statistics & numerical data
Transgender Persons / statistics & numerical data*