Texas Children’s Hospital to Open Detransition Clinic as Part of $10 Million Medicaid Settlement and Doctor Removals

Attorney General Paxton announced a settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital after a probe into Medicaid billing and gender-transition procedures. The hospital must establish the nation’s first detransition clinic, pay $10 million to Texas Medicaid for unallowable interventions, and permanently terminate five physicians’ privileges. The clinic will be funded by the hospital for five years and the hospital will stop providing gender-transition services, with enhanced compliance measures and bylaws to auto-revoke privileges for violations.