Transgender Patients Head to Trial on Florida’s Medicaid Pay Ban

Florida’s Medicaid agency failed to head off a trial on whether it can lawfully refuse to pay for gender-affirming care.

Genuine questions of material fact critical to resolving the case precluded summary judgment for the Florida Agency for Health Care Administration and Secretary Jason Weida, Judge Robert L. Hinkle said in a brief pretrial order.

The case is similar to one involving West Virginia’s restriction on Medicaid pay for certain transgender care. The US Court of Appeals for the Fourth Circuit granted en banc review, after a three-judge panel heard oral argument.

Florida’s agency is defending a rule that prohibits ...