HHS Review Examines $50 Million in Puberty-Blocker Treatments
HHS said more than 30 hospitals, clinics and pharmacies used non-specific diagnoses to bill for puberty blockers, citing roughly $50 million in claims.
- Vice President Vance referred hospitals identified in the "Wolves in White Coats" report to the Justice Department and HHS on Thursday, urging investigations into providers allegedly pushing transgender treatments on minors.
- Providers allegedly used codes for "precocious puberty" and endocrine disorders to secure insurance coverage for puberty blockers, a practice the report claims "strongly suggests a pattern of potentially fraudulent billing."
- The Trump administration is reportedly seeking reviews at more than 200 hospitals and clinics; the Justice Department has previously investigated incorrect diagnosis coding in Medicare Advantage, announcing more than $5.7 billion in health fraud recoveries.
- CMS finalized a rule on Tuesday cutting Medicaid and the Health Insurance Program funding for gender-affirming care for minors, citing insufficient clinical data; President Donald Trump called the healthcare "barbaric."
- Medical groups have criticized the policy while the National Alliance on Mental Illness cited research suggesting access to gender-affirming care improves mental health; legal challenges have the potential to delay or block the rule.
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‘Wolves in White Coats’: HHS finds $50M in fraudulent billing to hide sex-change procedures on kids
The U.S. Department of Health and Human Services released a report alleging that hospitals and doctors used incorrect medical billing codes to obtain insurance payments for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and irreversible sex-change surgeries performed on minors.
Washington Roundup: Leavitt to step down, Vance urges DOJ investigation over ‘gender ideologies’
While Congress was in the midst of its August recess, White House press secretary Karoline Leavitt announced she would step down from her podium at the end of the month.
Feds Say Billing Fraud Rampant for Youth Trans Procedures, Cash Cow for Docs
The business model and medical coding practices of the so-called gender-affirming care industry for minors, long obscured by the jargon and secrecy of the profession, are facing the harsh glare of federal scrutiny, as the evidence base for puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones and surgeries for gender-confused youth gets picked apart globally. The best-case scenario for hundreds of "wolves in white coats" – potential scofflaws identified in a new…
JD Vance and RFK Jr. Refer Hundreds of Hospitals and Clinics to Justice Department For Criminal Investigation into Transgender Health Fraud › American Greatness
Vice President JD Vance and Health and Human Services (HHS) Secretary Robert Kennedy Jr. have referred hundreds of hospitals and clinics identified in a new […] Source
JD Vance wants hospitals investigated over trans healthcare 'fraud'
The vice president sent a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services (HHS) to attorney general Todd Blanche yesterday (13 August) The post JD Vance wants hospitals investigated over trans healthcare ‘fraud’ appeared first on Attitude.
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