BOMBSHELL HHS REPORT: Hospitals Pocketed $50+ Million in Fraud Pushing "Gender Medicine" on Kids
Hospitals across the country made tens of millions of dollars by defrauding taxpayers and insurers to push "gender medicine" on children, according to a bombshell US Department of Health and Human Services report released today.
The report, Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of 'Gender Medicine,' found that hospitals routinely used false diagnostic codes to bill Medicaid and private insurers for puberty blockers given to minors.
The report documents instances of nearly $50,000,000 in potential fraud related to puberty-blocking drugs given to minors.
Aaron Baer, President of Center for Christian Virtue and co-author of the report, said:
"For years we were told ‘gender medicine’ was about compassionate care. The Wolves in White Coats report reveals it’s always been about the money, not healthcare. Doctors and hospitals turned healthy kids into lifelong patients, then lied on insurance forms—including to taxpayer-funded Medicaid—to make sure their pockets were filled. That's fraud and abuse, but only the children have paid the price for it."
The Fraud Breakdown
Hospitals and clinics potentially defrauded Medicaid and private insurance by improperly diagnosing minors with unspecified “endocrine disorders,” then prescribing the dangerous puberty-blocking drugs to minors. In total, the providers billed nearly $50 million nationwide for puberty blockers given to children from 2015 to 2025.
The report says the miscoding was not accidental, as detailed by:
conference presentations,
public statements by health care industry members, and
whistleblower accounts describing a deliberate effort to steer claims around insurers' safeguards.
Knowingly submitting false diagnostic codes to bill government insurance programs can trigger the False Claims Act, which imposes triple damages, as well as federal health care fraud charges.
Two recent settlements bear that out:
Texas Children's Hospital agreed in May to pay a $10 million fine—the second-largest health care fraud settlement in the history of pediatric medicine—for billing Texas Medicaid for "unallowable and illegal 'gender-transition' interventions," including through false diagnosis codes.
Weeks later, the Cleveland Clinic reached its own settlement with the Department of Justice over false billings for sex-rejecting procedures on minors, and agreed to commit $2 million to care for detransitioners.
Individual hospitals reaped multimillion-dollar annual revenue from these pediatric gender clinic programs. Mount Sinai Medical Center in New York and Boston Children's Hospital each billed more than $6.5 million for such (dis)services to children between 2019 and 2023.
The report also documents:
how the Biden administration pushed hospitals toward sex-rejecting procedures through federal mandates,
how professional medical societies relaxed clinical guidelines under ideological pressure, and
first-hand accounts from young people and parents who were fast-tracked into irreversible procedures without adequate evaluation.
CCV President Aaron Baer is one of 10 contributors to the report, joining physicians Dr. Eithan Haim, Dr. Aaron Kheriaty, and Dr. Quentin Van Meter, along with May Mailman, Rachel Morrison, and researchers from the Independent Women's Forum and the Ethics and Public Policy Center.
For more information, contact CCV at 513-733-5775 or contact@ccv.org. For media inquiries, email media@ccv.org.
As Ohio's largest Christian public policy organization, Center for Christian Virtue seeks the good of our neighbors by advocating for public policy that reflects the truth of the Gospel.
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