Sam Schwartz-Fenwick Discusses What Gender-Affirming Care Cases Mean for Benefits Attorneys in Law360

Law360 quoted Sam Schwartz-Fenwick in its article, “What Gender-Affirming Care Cases Mean For Benefits Attys,” on January 26. Schwartz-Fenwick discussed how ongoing legal battles over restrictions on youth access to gender-affirming medical care may spur employers to upgrade their benefits to help health plan participants travel out of state to seek treatment, which could open up a new area of liability for plan administrators.

“Almost all of these state bans are banning the treatment of gender-affirming care for minors, and the impact of that, is to make it very hard to find providers — sometimes for hundreds of miles — who can provide gender-affirming care.”

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