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Health Service System to review infertility coverage after supervisors raise access concerns
Summary
The city employee Health Service System told the Budget & Finance Committee it is investigating whether infertility benefit design disadvantages lesbians, single women or unpartnered members and will report back to its board in August; any expansion to cover assisted reproductive technology would be taxable.
At the Budget & Finance Committee's June 14 hearing, Abby Yant, executive director of the city's Health Service System (HSS), said the administration is conducting a utilization review of the infertility benefit after supervisors raised concerns that the plan's current design may functionally favor members who can demonstrate medical infertility diagnoses tied to heterosexual couples.
President Norman Yee pressed HSS staff about "a discrepancy in access in fertility coverage for…
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