Cleveland Clinic Commits $2 Million to Detransition Care, Pays $308,000 in DOJ Settlement
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Updated · Fox News · Jun 11
Cleveland Clinic Commits $2 Million to Detransition Care, Pays $308,000 in DOJ Settlement
1 articles · Updated · Fox News · Jun 11
Summary
$2 million for detransition care and a $308,000 payment were part of Cleveland Clinic's June 5 settlement with the Justice Department over allegedly inaccurate insurance claims tied to minors' gender-related procedures.
The DOJ said the case centered on billing issues, while Cleveland Clinic called it an unintentional coding problem involving a small number of patients and said it already provides detransition care on request.
Federal officials said the hospital system received credit for cooperating during the investigation, describing it as proactive and solution-driven in reaching the agreement.
The resolution follows a similar case less than a month earlier in which Texas Children's Hospital agreed to pay $10 million and open a detransition clinic over alleged unlawful billing for youth gender-transition interventions.
The DOJ cast both settlements as part of a broader push to curb such treatments for minors and steer money toward what it calls restorative care for detransitioners.