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Corporate Equality Index: List of Businesses with Transgender-Inclusive Health Insurance Benefits

9/14/2009

Since 2004, the HRC Foundation has asked employers whether they offer transgender health benefits without exclusion as part of its annual Corporate Equality Index survey. Businesses large and small have removed transgender exclusions from their health insurance contracts and modified clinical guidelines to provide health insurance coverage for mental health counseling, hormone therapy, medical visits, surgical procedures and other treatments related to gender transition or sex reassignment.

The Corporate Equality Index requires employers to provide documentation indicating that such coverage is indeed available. In total, 66 employers — including eight of the top 20 Fortune 500 companies and 17 of the American Lawyer top 200 law firms — demonstrated that they provided insurance coverage for transgender-related treatments, including surgical procedures, for employees and their covered dependents.

Where the HRC Foundation has seen detailed documentation of coverage, it has generally been limited to specific procedures or treatments; such limitations could eventually be viewed as insufficient. The HRC Foundation expects to issue a more detailed report of the types of coverage generally available at these employers, as well as identified best and worst practices of such plans, in October 2009. To be notified of this report, sign up for our free e-newsletter.

Employers rated in the Corporate Equality Index 2010 that provide insurance coverage for transgender-related treatments, including surgical procedures, for employees and their covered dependents:

  • 3M Co.
  • Aetna Inc.
  • Alcatel-Lucent
  • American Express Co.
  • Ameriprise Financial Inc.
  • AT&T Inc.
  • Avaya Inc.
  • Bank of America Corp.
  • Barclays Capital
  • Bingham McCutchen LLP
  • Booz Allen Hamilton Inc.
  • Campbell Soup Co.
  • Cardinal Health Inc.
  • Chrysler LLC
  • Cisco Systems Inc.
  • Clifford Chance US LLP
  • Coca-Cola Co., The
  • Covington & Burling LLP
  • Cummins Inc.
  • Deloitte LLP
  • Deutsche Bank
  • Diageo North America
  • DLA Piper
  • E. I. du Pont de Nemours and Co. (DuPont)
  • Eastman Kodak Co.
  • Ernst & Young LLP
  • Exelon Corp.
  • Faegre & Benson LLP
  • Food Lion LLC
  • Ford Motor Co.
  • Fried, Frank, Haris, Shriver & Jacobson LLP
  • Genentech Inc.
  • General Motors Corp.
  • Goldman Sachs Group Inc., The
  • Google Inc.
  • Herman Miller Inc.
  • International Business Machines Corp. (IBM)
  • J.P. Morgan Chase & Co.
  • Johnson & Johnson
  • Katten Muchin Rosenman LLP
  • Kimpton Hotel & Restaurant Group Inc.
  • Kirkland & Ellis LLP
  • KPMG LLP
  • Kraft Foods Inc.
  • Latham & Watkins LLP
  • Littler Mendelson PC
  • Marsh & McLennan Companies Inc.
  • McGraw-Hill Companies Inc., The
  • Microsoft Corp.
  • Morgan Stanley
  • Morrison & Foerster LLP
  • Nike Inc.
  • Northern Trust Corp.
  • PG&E Corp.
  • Pillsbury Winthrop Shaw Pittman LLP
  • Replacements Ltd.
  • Robins, Kaplan, Miller & Ciresi LLP
  • Shearman & Sterling LLP
  • Sonnenschein, Nath & Rosenthal LLP
  • State Farm Group
  • Sun Microsystems Inc.
  • Sutherland Asbill & Brennan LLP
  • Walt Disney Co.
  • Wells Fargo & Co.
  • White & Case LLP
  • Yahoo! Inc.

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