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Hawaii Asks Health Plans to Show Gender Transition Benefits on Web | ThinkAdvisor
The effort may mean that agents, brokers and other benefits advisors in Hawaii — and in any states that follow Hawaii’s lead — will have one more coverage detail to explain to clients.
In the past, some people referred to gender transition procedures as “sex change” procedures.
The Health Industry Collaboration Effort — a volunteer-led health insurer consortium that includes representatives from many major health coverage providers, including Aetna, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, UnitedHealth and Centene’s Health Net unit — suggested, in a communications tool kit approved in 2019, that use of the term “sex change” is exclusionary, and that use of terms such as “gender affirming surgery” and “gender transition” is more sensitive.
The effort may mean that agents, brokers and other benefits advisors in Hawaii — and in any states that follow Hawaii’s lead — will have one more coverage detail to explain to clients.
In the past, some people referred to gender transition procedures as “sex change” procedures.
The Health Industry Collaboration Effort — a volunteer-led health insurer consortium that includes representatives from many major health coverage providers, including Aetna, Aetna, Cigna, Humana, UnitedHealth and Centene’s Health Net unit — suggested, in a communications tool kit approved in 2019, that use of the term “sex change” is exclusionary, and that use of terms such as “gender affirming surgery” and “gender transition” is more sensitive.
