The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration finalized rules banning healthcare providers from billing Medicaid for gender-affirming medical treatment on Aug. 11. The ban is set to go into effect Aug. 21.
Simone Chriss, director of the Southern Legal Counsel’s Transgender Rights Initiative — one of the organizations filing the lawsuit — told Politico Florida’s ban will affect up to 9,000 of the state’s Medicaid enrollees who are transgender.
“We are trying to get this filed as quickly as we possibly can,” Ms. Chriss said, according to the report. “We were expecting to have a little more time before this actually went into effect.”
