Texas Health and Human Services told Rufo that its Medicaid program has “never covered ‘gender-affirming’ surgery or prescription drugs for the purpose of ‘gender-affirming’ care.” According to a Kaiser Family Foundation report published in 2022, Texas expressly excludes coverage of ‘gender-affirming’ health services through Medicaid.
The two patients identified by Sivadge were prescribed transgender hormones at the hospital in 2022 when they were 16 years old.
“The largest children’s hospital in the country is illegally billing Medicaid for transgender procedures,” Sivadge told City Journal. “It is evident that the hospital continues to believe it is above the law not just by concealing the existence of their transgender medicine program from the public, but by stealing from the federal government.”
Rufo reported Tuesday that Attorney General Ken Paxton’s office confirmed the AG was investigating the allegations of Medicaid fraud at Texas Children’s Hospital.
“Based on the facts we have, the only reasonable conclusion is that Texas Children’s Hospital was using Texas Medicaid funds to pay for ‘gender-affirming care,’ contrary to Texas law,” a legal expert told City Journal.
Sivadge named two specific hospital employees who she said were involved in the alleged medical fraud: physicians Richard Ogden Roberts and David Paul. Neither responded to DX‘s request for comment. ...
Fits the new world order agenda. I wonder if the Feds will NOT take a dim view of it.
HOORAY Vanessa Savadge. Shine the light of truth.
Why are these doctors so hell-bent on mutilating children? Now they break the law to do it.
Prosecute the guy who let the cat out of the bag.
Texas certainly has changed since i was there last in the 70’s...
I thought no one was above the law 😏
if Trump had done this he would be facing 1 million years in jail
Imagine that, your kid breaks an arm and when you get him back, he has the cast as you expected, but no more dick.
Quite a bunch there.