HHS: Hospitals Used Fake Codes for Sex-Change Drugs

Contributing sentiments towards policy:

45% : It follows a May settlement in which Texas Children's Hospital agreed to pay $10 million to resolve claims that it billed Texas Medicaid for the interventions using false diagnosis codes.
24% : " Vance said providers "may have been defrauding Medicaid and private insurers by using misleading or fraudulent billing codes to get insurance to cover the costs.
23% : The Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services cut off federal Medicaid and Children's Health Insurance Program funding for sex-change procedures on minors.
20% : "If they have done so intentionally, thereby perpetrating a fraud on Medicaid or on private insurers, they should go to prison," Vance wrote.

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