SMITH V. RASMUSSEN
CO-AUTHORS Heather Walter McCabe
PUBLISHER
Cambridge University Press
DATE
2022-12
UVA Law Faculty Affiliations
Abstract
This chapter "rewrites" Smith v. Rasmussen, 249 F.3d 755 (8th Cir. 2001), which affirmed Iowa’s Medicaid agency's refusal to cover gender affirmation surgery for a beneficiary. The rewritten opinion "conclude[s] that the exclusion regulation discriminates based on sex, thereby failing to satisfy the Medicaid statute’s reasonableness requirements."
Commentary, Heather Walter McCabe
Judgment, Craig Konnoth
Citation
Craig Konnoth & Heather Walter McCabe, SMITH V. RASMUSSEN, in Seema Mohapatra & Lindsay F. Wiley Feminist Judgments: Rewritten Health Law Opinions, Cambridge University Press, 237–263 (2022).