‘Irreversible Harm’: CMS Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz Tells State Medicaid Directors No Funding for Gender Reassignment Surgeries, Hormone Treatments for MinorsSean Moran 11 Apr 2025
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Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services (CMS) Administrator Dr. Mehmet Oz told state Medicaid directors Friday there will be no Medicaid funding for “gender reassignment” surgeries or hormone treatments for minors.
“As a doctor and now CMS Administrator, my top priority is protecting children and upholding the law. Medicaid dollars are not to be used for gender reassignment surgeries or hormone treatments in minors – procedures that can cause permanent, irreversible harm, including sterilization,” Oz said in a written statement obtained by Breitbart News.
“We have a duty to ensure medical care is lawful, necessary, and truly in the best interest of patients. CMS will not support services that violate this standard or place vulnerable children at risk. It is a CMS responsibility to steward Medicaid dollars and ensure resources focus on protecting our most vulnerable,” he continued.
Oz wrote to state Medicaid directors to ensure that state Medicaid agencies are “aware of growing evidence regarding certain procedures offered to children, and to remind states of their responsibility to ensure that Medicaid payments are consistent with quality of care and that covered services are provided in a manner consistent with the best interest of recipients.”
The recently confirmed administrator to CMS noted that medical interventions to cure one of gender dysphoria — including puberty blockers, surgeries to transform one’s physical appearance, surgeries to remove an individual’s sexual organs, and sex hormones to align one’s appearance with an identity that differs from his or her sex –have “proliferated.”
The CMS administrator noted that there is dearth of evidence supporting these controversial medical procedures to treat gender dysphoria for minors, and noted that these interventions can “cause long-term and irreparable harm”:
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