Committee Chair Ron Wyden chided Vanderbilt University Medical Center for its 'utter betrayal' of transgender patients.
A report from the Senate Finance Committee published on Tuesday details how Republican attorneys general from several states abused their authority to obtain the private health care information of transgender patients within — and sometimes beyond — their jurisdictions.
“The proliferation of Attorney General investigations that single-out LGBTQIA+ people, especially in states with LGBTQIA+-hostile political and social climates, further harms this marginalized population,” the report states.Washington University School of Medicine, located in St. Louis, Missouri, for example, refused to share records with AG Bailey in 2023, citing concerns about patients’ privacy and the federal Health Insurance Portability and Accountability Act .
Meanwhile, Tennessee-based Vanderbilt University Medical Center didn’t object at all to AG Skrmetti’s request for information regarding transgender patients. Indeed, over the course of seven months relating to patient care at the hospital, amounting to the medical records of 82 transgender patients it had served. These patients were not informed that their records were being shared until the end of that timeframe in June 2023.
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