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Kellan Baker is the Centennial Scholar in the Department of Health Policy and Management at the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health, where he is pursuing a doctorate in health services research with a focus on transgender health and economic evaluation. Kellan is also a current Health Policy Research Scholar with the Robert Wood Johnson Foundation. Previously he was a Senior Fellow at the Center for American Progress, where he worked on LGBT health and data collection policy at the federal and state levels.
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The Institute of Medicine and The Joint Commission have recommended asking sexual orientation and gender identity (SOGI) questions in clinical settings and including such data in Electronic Health Records (EHRs). This is increasingly viewed as a critical step toward systematically documenting and addressing health disparities affecting...
The United States has seen a rapid increase in insurance coverage for health care services related to gender transition, driven by growing consensus on their medical necessity and new legal interpretations prohibiting insurance discrimination against transgender people.
Many transgender Americans continue to remain uninsured or are underinsured because of payers' refusal to cover medically necessary, gender-affirming healthcare services-such as hormone therapy, mental health counseling, and reconstructive surgeries. Coverage refusal results in higher costs and poor health outcomes among transgender people who cann...
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Transgender (trans) and gender-nonconforming adults have reported reduced access to health care because of discrimination and lack of knowledgeable care. This study aimed to contribute to the nascent cancer prevention literature among trans and gender-nonconforming individuals by ascertaining rates of breast, cervical, prostate, and co...
Final rules issued by the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services and the Office of the National Coordinator for Health Information Technology in October 2015 require electronic health record software certified for Meaningful Use to include sexual orientation and gender identity (SO/GI) fields. This is a critical step toward making SO/GI data co...
Lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender, and intersex (LBGTI) people continue to experience discrimination throughout the U.S. health system. There is a lack of content about LGBTI health issues in medical education and training. Some states such as California have enacted legislation prohibiting discrimination based on sexual orientation and gender id...
Health is not just a personal issue: it reflects the structures that shape society and demographic factors such as race, gender, gender identity, and sexual orientation that affect the ability of individuals to enjoy healthy lives. One of the core principles of a social justice approach to health is that everyone deserves care that effectively addr...
