Doctors and hospital groups may have profited to the tune of nearly $50 million from fraudulent insurance claims for transgender medical procedures on children, according to a new report from the Department of Health and Human Services. 

A new HHS report, titled “Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of ‘Gender Medicine,’” outlines how physicians and hospital systems may have misused billing codes to get private insurance and Medicaid programs to cover puberty blockers, cross-sex hormones, and gender surgeries for minors. 

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