Boston Children’s Hospital Could Be Illegally Tricking Insurers Into Covering Sex Changes, DOJ Suggests

By Katelynn Richardson and Megan Brock

The Boston’s Children’s Hospital (BCH) may be using fraudulent billing codes to ensure minors receive insurance coverage for puberty blockers, federal prosecutors suggested in a court document filed Tuesday.

The hospital has diagnosed hundreds of children with central precocious puberty (CPP) for the first time at ages 10 or older since 2015, even though 10 years old is a “normal” age for puberty, according to anonymized insurance data analyzed by the government.

The “large scale of these late diagnoses raises suspicion that BCH incorrectly diagnosed certain children with CPP in order to mislead insurance companies or others into covering puberty blockers for older children with gender dysphoria,” the government wrote in a court filing. “Misleading insurance companies or others about a patient’s diagnosis in order to obtain payment for off-label pharmaceuticals could form the basis of a federal healthcare offense,” the filing states…

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