Children’s Hospital Probed for Fraud Over Trans Surgeries
According to reports, pediatric transgender surgery has become a multibillion dollar fraud industry. The House Committee on Oversight and Accountability investigates whistleblower allegations of fraudulent Medicaid billing. This includes Texas Children’s Hospital, Houston.
Fox News reported that the claims claim that TCH and other children’s hospitals are falsifying diagnose codes for patients who seek “gender-transition care”.
Members of the committee wrote to the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services and the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services to flag a TCH provider that allegedly misdiagnosed a female biological patient as having hypogonadism and testosterone deficiency in order to obtain Medicaid coverage for testosterone treatments “that otherwise would be denied under Texas Medicaid Regulations if prescribed for gender transition.”
The letters were signed by Republican Reps. Pete Sessions from Texas and Lisa McClain from Michigan, Chair of the Subcommittee on Health Care and Financial Services.
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Dr. Eithan Haim, a whistleblower who was a resident at TCH when the allegations occurred, faces four federal felony charges related to alleged violations under the federal law that restricts the release of medical data. Haim released documents with redactions, allegedly showing that the hospital’s “transgender program” for children continued to function after it had been shut down.
Haim is accused by federal prosecutors of releasing the information “under false pretenses, with the intention to cause malicious injury to TCH.”
Sessions and McClain say Haim’s treatment shows the federal government is trying to silence future Medicaid whistleblowers who “want to expose illegal hospital actions while turning a sneer at Medicaid fraud and other wrongdoings in hospitals they want to expose.”
