Tue Aug 22, 2023 – 5:36 pm EDT
(LifeSiteNews) – The Florida Agency for Health Care Administration (FAHCA) is levying thousands of dollars in fines against Medicaid healthcare insurers in the Sunshine State for using taxpayer funds on underage gender “transition” procedures in violation of Florida rules.
The Daily Wire reported that the agency has notified five providers of the move after a routine audit discovered they had used taxpayer funds to cover puberty blockers and cross-sex hormones for minors as well as a double mastectomy on a 16-year-old girl. Such procedures have been disqualified from Medicaid coverage under rules the agency adopted last August.
Not all of the offenders or fines were specified, but the largest is $30,000 against Simply Healthcare for the mastectomy, which also faces a sanction that now must be disclosed whenever it competes for state contracts over the next decade. The provider has reportedly replaced the team responsible for insuring the mastectomy.
“These plans recklessly continued to cover these services with permanent, harmful effects, after the rule was adopted,” and “will not stand in the way of our fight to protect the innocence of Florida’s kids,” FAHCA secretary Jason Weida told
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