Refusal to Perform Transgender Individual's Hysterectomy Violated ACA Nondiscrimination Rules | Practical Law
In litigation under Section 1557 of the Affordable Care Act (ACA), a Maryland district court concluded that a university health system and its hospital subsidiary violated Section 1557 by refusing to allow an individual's hysterectomy to be performed at the hospital because it was for a gender transition. The court concluded that the hospital discriminated on the basis of sex because its policies permitted medically necessary hysterectomies except for transgender individuals seeking treatment for gender dysphoria.