redstate.com By streiff
The Biden Justice Department is pulling out all the stops to shut down criticism and public comment on a program at Texas Children’s Hospital that specializes in so-called “gender-affirming care.”
Today, the Department of Justice indicted Dr. Eithan Haim, a resident at Baylor College of Medicine, on four bogus counts of “wrongfully obtaining individually identifiable health information.”
Haim, a Dallas surgeon, previously had done some work at Texas Children’s Hospital as part of his residency. The indictment against Haim alleges that in 2023, he asked to reactivate his login there to access information on pediatric patients not under his care, including names, attending physicians and treatment codes, then turned over the information to a media contact.
Haim has publicly identified himself as the person who gave the information about patients at Texas Children’s to a conservative activist, who published a story that the hospital was providing transgender care for minors in secret. At the time, transgender care for minors was legal in Texas, but the hospital had announced in 2022 that it would stop gender-affirming therapies.
Texas lawmakers banned transgender care for minors in September 2023. That law is being challenged in court. At least 25 states have adopted laws restricting or banning gender-affirming medical care for transgender minors, and most of those states face lawsuits.
Dr. @EithanHaim told me this about the FBI’s charges against him: “There is a vast disconnect between the nature of these charges and the reality of the truth. The most powerful investigative agency on the planet getting the facts so egregiously wrong cannot be attributed to… https://t.co/sSWaq38bEY
— Benjamin Ryan (@benryanwriter) June 18, 2024
Another action today shows how seriously the Biden DOJ takes the legal threat to transgenderism and the importance they attach to keeping the public, including elected state officials and law enforcement, ignorant of what goes on in at least one hospital that allegedly performs alleged illegal transgender surgeries, allegedly.
Then a nurse, Vanessa Sivadge, noticed blatant financial fraud. Sivadge was questioned by the FBI in regard to the case against Dr. Haim, and she now reported on observed cases of Medicaid fraud.
Sivadge noticed another critical piece of information: Patient A and Patient B, like several other “transgender” patients, were enrolled in Texas Children’s Health Plan STAR, a “no-cost Medicaid managed care plan.”
Despite the law, which prohibited billing Medicaid for “gender-affirming care,” it appears that this was a standard practice at Texas Children’s Hospital. As Roberts himself admitted in a 2023 affidavit related to the lawsuit against SB 14, he had several patients in his transgender medicine program “who receive their health coverage through Medicaid.”
According to a legal expert with deep knowledge of Texas Medicaid law, the essential facts are as follows: Patients A and B had coverage through Texas Children’s Plan STAR; the doctors explicitly treated them for the purpose of “gender-affirming care”; and the standard practice would be for the hospital to submit this care for reimbursement through the state Medicaid program. It would be extremely unlikely, according to this expert, for the hospital to forgo this practice and, for example, cover the cost of its “gender-affirming care” program from its own budget…
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