Hospitals, doctors got rich through shady gender-care billing tactics and taking advantage of kids: damning report
US hospitals and clinics have billed out nearly $120 million in gender-related medical treatments to minors since 2019, putting thousands of children on an expensive and irreversible treadmill requiring lifelong upkeep — with the blessing of doctors and lefty politicians.The bombshell report from President Trump’s Department of Health and Human Services also claims insurance fraud is rampant, with evidence suggesting pediatric gender clinics and children’s hospitals are creatively cooking the books to get young patients treatment.Those with the highest billings — which encompassed more than 5,500 surgical procedures and 8,500 courses of hormone treatments — were some of the largest children’s hospitals in the country, including Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and Boston Children’s Hospital, HHS found.The unsettling findings have prompted the Trump administration to launch a criminal investigation.The 64-page report, titled “Wolves in White Coats,” documents what the agency calls irreparable “harm to America’s youth” inflicted over the last decade or so by healthcare providers and hospital systems, who have allegedly lined their pockets by promoting costly procedures and treatments for gender-confused minors.“The policies of President Donald J.Trump have discouraged hospitals from providing these interventions.
But how was this madness allowed to fester under America’s hospital system?” the report asks in the introduction.“This report concludes that a litany of political and financial incentives led providers to offer, and indeed urge, the prescription of sex-rejection drugs and surgeries for minors.”HHS points to “financial incentives” as one potential explanation for the explosion in gender-related care for minors — as hospitals sought a way to juice profits in pediatric departments, which typically bring in lower margins than other specialties.“Gender clinics changed that calculus by introducing a novel source of ...