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Hawaii Moves To Improve Transgender Health Insurance Coverage
Summary by Ground News
Hawaii adopted a law in 2016 that prohibited insurance companies from discriminating against transgender people. But advocates say insurers are still denying coverage of gender confirmation procedures by claiming they're cosmetic and not medically necessary. House Bill 2405 would close the gap by barring health insurance providers from applying categorical cosmetic or blanket exclusions to prescribed gender confirmation treatments.