Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health

About Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health

What is Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health?

The Center for Transgender and Gender Expansive Health is a gender-affirming care program within Johns Hopkins Medicine, the health system headquartered in Baltimore, Maryland. It serves transgender, nonbinary, gender fluid and questioning patients, both youth and adults. Its listed services are primary care, hormone therapy, gynecologic services, urological care, mental health services, and gender affirming surgical services. For younger patients, the Emerge Gender Diversity Clinic offers puberty blockade and cross sex hormones to people up to 25 years old. In its own words: "Gender affirming surgery is only offered to patients aged 18+."

The center does not give a street address and does not name a prescriber, so ask which site you would be seen at and who would write any prescription. Google lists it as a medical clinic with a 4.9 rating from 18 reviews. Patients book by phone at 844-546-5645. The center says its care follows the standards set by the World Professional Association for Transgender Health.

This listing is for its Baltimore office at 1800 Orleans St Sheikh Zayed Tower.

What does it cost?

It does not publish prices. There is no consultation fee, no cash rate, no membership terms, and no word on HSA or financing. It also does not say whether insurance is accepted or whether medication is part of any charge. Johns Hopkins Medicine has a price transparency page, but this center lists no figures of its own. Johns Hopkins Medicine's billing information also notes that some care sites have outside private practice physicians who bill separately, and that it cannot guarantee those physicians take your insurance. Treat every cost as unknown until the center gives you a number.

What should you ask before you book?

Start with who writes the prescription and what their credentials are, since no prescriber is named. Ask whether hormone therapy is offered to adults as well as younger patients, and what the intake involves. Ask what the first visit costs, whether follow-up visits and lab work are charged separately, and whether those are part of any quoted cost. Ask whether the center takes your insurance, and if so, whether any outside physician bills you on their own. Ask whether medication is included in any quoted cost, and whether it is brand-name or compounded. Ask whether telehealth is offered, and what the cancellation and rescheduling policy is.

Who is it a good fit for?

This is a good fit if you want gender-affirming care from a large academic health system and you are willing to get prices and prescriber details by phone before you book. If you need a published price before you commit, expect to do that work first.

Sources: hopkinsmedicine.org/center-transgender-health, hopkinsmedicine.org/center-transgender-health/services-appointments/children-adolescents-and-young-adults

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