United States Eighth Circuit

State regulation excluding sex reassignment surgery was not unreasonable, arbitrary or inconsistent with the Medicaid Act, even if plaintiff qualified for the procedure under the medically needy classification of Medicaid.

Appellate Information

• Decided 05/04/2001
• Published 05/04/2001

Judges

• WOLLMAN, Chief Judge., BEFORE:  WOLLMAN, Chief Judge, BEAM, Circuit Judge, and PANNER, District Judge.

Court

• United States Eighth Circuit

Counsel

• For Appellant:
  
• Daniel W. Hart, argued Des Moines, IA (Thomas J. Miller, Gordon E. Allen, on the brief), for appellant.


• For Appellees:
  
• Thomas A. Krause, argued, Des Moines, IA (Max J. Schott, on the brief), for appellee.