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Third-party payment for injurious medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic child [[circumcision]] in the [[United States]] keeps the incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision of children far higher than any other industrial nation.
Cessation of third-party payment is likely to reduce the incidence of harmful [[circumcision]] in the [[United States]]. Hill (2021) estimated that the overall incidence of circumcision in Mississppi, where Medicaid does has not provide provided third-party payment for non-therapeutic circumcisionsince 1998, is only about 20 percent.<ref>{{REFweb
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(1) (PDF) Circumcision Incidence in Mississippi. Available from: https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350799429_Circumcision_Incidence_in_Mississippi [accessed Apr 14 2021].
}}</ref> The only party to benefit from such third-party payments is the receiving physician, and/or hospital.
The physicians that most commonly perform non-therapeutic infant circumcisions are obstetricians, pediatricians, and family doctors. They formed an agreement in 2007 to produce a new statement with the [[AAP]] as the lead. The intent of the statement was to spur the demand for [[circumcision]] to aid the [[circumcision industry]]. It was published in 2012 but received overwheming, unrelenting criticism from many critics because of its evident omissions of facts. The 2012 AAP statement was an acute embarrassment to the AAP so it was not re-affirmed and allowed to expire in accordance with long-standing AAP policy, so it expired on August 31, 2017. The AAP has not replaced the failed 2012 policy statement so it now has ''no'' official policy regarding male circumcision and does ''not'' recommend circumcision.
* [https://www.opm.gov/healthcare-insurance/healthcare The Federal Employees Health Benefits (FEHB) Program] (For federal employees and their dependents.)
* [https://www.state.gov/pepfar/ President's Emergency Plan For AIDS Relief] ([[PEPFAR]]) (For every male who lives in Africa.)
==Fraud, waste, and abuse==
Third-party payment for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]], by various U.S. government entities, enriches medical doctors, but causes [[pain]], [[trauma]], and lasting harm to patients. It is a glaring example of the <b>fraud, waste, and abuse</b> that is so endemic throughout the federal bureaucracy.
==Third-party payment policy in English-speaking nations==