Planned Parenthood accused of possible fraud over sex-change ‘care’

Pennsylvania Planned Parenthood employees could be fraudulently obtaining coverage for cross-sex hormones using false diagnoses, according to health experts.Planned Parenthood’s southeastern and western Pennsylvania facilities describe giving insurance providers the billing code for “endocrine disorder, unspecified” when prescribing the transgender drugs. Doctors are sounding the alarm in recent months about clinics misleadingly using the diagnosis to secure Medicaid or insurance coverage for transgender treatments. Alleged false billing codes, including endocrine disorder, have sparked legal action from Republican Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton against sex-change doctors and health institutions in his state since whistleblowers came forward in 2023.

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