Vance Urges DOJ Investigation Into Hospitals over Billing for Transgender Care
The HHS report says about $50 million in puberty-blocker claims used vague diagnoses, prompting calls for fraud investigations.
- On Thursday, Vice President JD Vance referred over 200 hospitals and clinics to the Justice Department, requesting investigations into alleged fraudulent billing for pediatric gender-affirming care.
- The administration's referral followed a Department of Health and Human Services report released Thursday titled "Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of Gender Medicine."
- HHS identified approximately $50 million in claims for puberty blockers billed under endocrine disorders and nearly $11 million for precocious puberty diagnoses, which Vance alleged created revenue streams for "sex-rejecting procedures."
- Federal appeals court judges on Friday upheld a separate DOJ subpoena seeking transgender health data, even as AAP President Susan J. Kressly criticized the move as setting a "dangerous precedent."
- As head of the White House Anti-Fraud Task Force, Vance is integrating this investigation into a wider campaign that recently barred Medicaid funding for gender-affirming care to emphasize "biological sex" across federal policy.
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them.JD Vance demands that the DOJ investigate hospitals caring for transgender patients
Vice President JD Vance just suggested the Trump administration has not yet gone far enough in limiting access to gender-affirming care.The Republican urged the Justice Department on Thursday to investigate allegations that medical institutions improperly billed insurers for gender-affirming care provided to transgender patients. Vance sent a letter to acting Attorney General Todd Blanche, according to POLITICO, asking him to investigate dozens …
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