Overview
- Texas Children’s Hospital, which announced the deal Friday, May 15, will stop providing gender-affirming medical treatments to minors, including puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones.
- The agreement resolves claims that the hospital improperly billed public and private insurers for pediatric gender-related care, and the hospital says it settled to avoid a costly court fight while denying wrongdoing.
- Officials said the hospital must open what they call the nation’s first clinic for patients seeking to detransition after prior gender-related treatment, with services funded and free to patients for the first five years.
- Texas officials said the settlement requires the hospital to fire five doctors who provided these services to minors and to revoke their privileges.
- Federal authorities described the deal as part of ongoing investigations into care for minors, with recent court limits on HHS enforcement and potential CMS payment changes adding uncertainty for providers.