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Personal Support Every Step of the Way
Starting your journey with hormone therapy or gender-affirming surgery means first visiting your primary care provider, who is familiar with your medical history and knows you personally. Denver Health’s LGBTQ+ Health Services provides open and affirming health care to LGBTQ+ communities.
We have trained medical providers at our 10 community health centers and on Denver Health’s main campus, who can provide the medical assistance you need, including patient navigation, help with updating gender identification on your credentials, behavioral health and general primary care.
Connecting With a Care Team
When you’re ready to pick a primary care provider or specialist, connect with a Denver Health patient navigator at LGBTQ+ Health Services by calling 303-602-5699. Our patient navigators are committed to guiding our lesbian, gay, bisexual, transgender and nonbinary patients through their health care journeys, ensuring access to caring and supportive medical providers for all of their health needs.
Your primary care provider may introduce you to specialists and other health care professionals familiar with the unique challenges of transitioning. Care teams collaborate to provide medical, psychological and emotional support throughout the process.
Coverage Details*
Treatment of Gender Dysphoria
Based on medical necessity for the treatment of gender dysphoria, coverage for DHMP plan members includes, but is not limited to, mental health therapy, hormone therapy, mastectomy with chest reconstruction, breast augmentation, gender-affirming lower-body surgeries (male-to-female and female-to-male), tracheal shave and hair removal.
Covered Care and Services
- Medical and mental/behavioral health office visits
- Pharmacy services
- Inpatient hospital care
- Outpatient care
- Lab and imaging services
- Treatment for medical complications
- Pre- and post-operative exams
Gender-Affirming Upper Body and Facial Surgeries and Services
- Subcutaneous mastectomy (for creation of male chest)
- Simple/total mastectomy
- Partial mastectomy
- Modified radical mastectomy
- Radical mastectomy
- Breast reduction (reduction mammoplasty)
- Breast/chest augmentation (augmentation mammoplasty), reduction, construction
- Chest/breast implants/lipofilling
- Pectoral implants
- Nipple reconstruction following mastectomy
- Liposuction
- Lipofilling
- Facial feminization surgery
- Blepharoplasty (eye and lid modification)
- Face/forehead and/or neck tightening
- Facial bone remodeling for facial feminization
- Genioplasty (chin width reduction)
- Rhytidectomy (cheek, chin and neck)
- Cheek, chin and nose implants
- Lip lift/augmentation
- Mandibular angle augmentation/creation/reduction (jaw)
- Orbital recontouring rhinoplasty (nose reshaping)
- Rhinoplasty (nose reshaping)
- Thyroid cartilage reduction/reduction thyrochondroplasty
- Voice surgery
- Hair reconstruction
Gender-Affirming Lower Body Surgeries and Services
- Penectomy
- Orchiectomy
- Vaginoplasty
- Dilator (medical equipment)
- Clitoroplasty
- Vulvoplasty
- Labiaplasty
- Prostatectomy
- Urethroplasty
- Vagina/perineum reconstruction
- Gonadal surgery
- Hysterectomy
- Ovariectomy/oophorectomy
- Salpingectomy
- Metoidioplasty
- Phalloplasty
- Vaginectomy
- Vulvectomy
- Scrotoplasty
- Urethroplasty
- Trachelectomy
- Penis/perineum reconstruction
- Implantation of erection and/or testicular prosthesis
- Calf implants
- Gluteal augmentation (implants/lipofilling)
Other Gender-Affirming Services
- Hormone therapy visits and administration
- Voice therapy lessons
- Laser or electrolysis hair removal
Learn More
To learn more about your health plan benefits, contact Health Plan Services at 303-602-2100 (TTY 711).
For medical financial counseling assistance for gender-affirming care, call 303-602-5699 from 8 a.m. to 5 p.m., Monday through Friday.
*Coverage may vary depending upon plan type. Members should refer to their Evidence of Coverage for details. Covered services are based on medical necessity and may be subject to change. All services for the treatment of gender dysphoria are subject to the benefit rules, limitations, and exclusions stated in the Evidence of Coverage. Applicable copay/coinsurance and/or deductible apply.