The Cleveland Clinic has agreed to commit $2 million toward detransition care as part of a settlement with the Department of Justice resolving allegations that the hospital system submitted inaccurate insurance claims related to pediatric gender treatments for minors.

Settlement Details

The agreement, announced June 5, requires Cleveland Clinic to pay $308,000 to settle billing allegations and dedicate $2 million toward what the DOJ described as “restorative care” for detransitioners. The clinic added that it had already provided detransition care to patients who requested it.

A press release from the Department of Justice highlighted that Cleveland Clinic’s settlement came less than a month after Texas Children’s Hospital agreed to pay a $10,000,000 penalty for similar infractions, including billing Texas Medicaid for “unallowable and illegal ‘pediatric gender treatments’”.

Brett Shumate, assistant attorney general for the Civil Division, said in a statement that he is “grateful that institutions like Cleveland Clinic and Texas Children’s have decided to be part of the solution, not part of the problem.”

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