TennCare - As enacted, prohibits the division from providing coverage or reimbursement for a medical procedure performed on, or administered to, an individual if the performance or administration of the procedure is for the purpose of enabling the individual to identify with, or live as, a purported identity inconsistent with the individual's sex, or treat purported discomfort or distress from a discordance between the individual's sex and asserted identity. - Amends TCA Title 71, Chapter 5.

Summary

The law prohibits Tennessee's Medicaid program from paying for any medical procedure whose purpose is to help a person identify as a gender different from the sex assigned at birth or to treat distress from that mismatch. It applies to surgeries, hormone therapy and puberty blockers performed in‑state or via telehealth. Exceptions exist for procedures treating congenital defects, disease, injury, or for care that began before the law took effect and is certified as medically necessary.

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