I don’t want to put the word “discrimination” in the title but it feels that way right now.
I am trying to find a primary care provider. I have health insurance (Medicaid).
The apparent barrier: I am transgender.
My insurance company has no listing for doctors willing to treat trans patients and I have a professional conflict of interest with a number of the community run clinics that treat low income minority populations. (This isn’t shade on them – I had been going to them for almost ten years but took a job that creates a conflict of interest that I need to avoid.)
That’s okay. I am a resourceful guy. I live in Philadelphia, where we have a sizable LGBT population. I can go on hospital system websites. Both Penn and Jefferson have LGBT health programs.
Not a single doctor is able to take me as a primary care patient. Not one.
As soon as I identify myself as transgender, I am told no one can treat me. I even have a caseworker at my MCO trying to find me a primary care physician and he hasn’t found anyone who can take me.
I have been trying to find a primary care since the second week of May. I cannot tell you how painful it is to call clinics who are accepting new patients and accepting my insurance then tell me I cannot be a patient because I am transgender. Several clinics have told me I need “an LGBT specialist” which is not an actual specialty.
I am at my wit’s end. Can anyone help?
Edit for the bot: 34 ftm, Philadelphia, PA
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I don’t want to put the word “discrimination” in the title but it feels that way right now. I am trying to find a primary care provider. I have health insurance (Medicaid). The apparent barrier: I am transgender. My insurance company has no listing for doctors willing to treat trans patients and I have a professional conflict of interest with a number of the community run clinics that treat low income minority populations. (This isn’t shade on them – I had been going to them for almost ten years but took a job that creates a conflict of interest that I need to avoid.) That’s okay. I am a resourceful guy. I live in Philadelphia, where we have a sizable LGBT population. I can go on hospital system websites. Both Penn and Jefferson have LGBT health programs. Not a single doctor is able to take me as a primary care patient. Not one. As soon as I identify myself as transgender, I am told no one can treat me. I even have a caseworker at my MCO trying to find me a primary care physician and he hasn’t found anyone who can take me. I have been trying to find a primary care since the second week of May. I cannot tell you how painful it is to call clinics who are accepting new patients and accepting my insurance then tell me I cannot be a patient because I am transgender. Several clinics have told me I need “an LGBT specialist” which is not an actual specialty. I am at my wit’s end. Can anyone help? Edit for the bot: 34 ftm, Philadelphia, PA
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