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'''Financial incentive''' in the [[United States]] to perform medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is very large. Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is a multi-billion dollar industry. Profit is reaped not only from the practice of circumcision itself, and associated hospital charges, but also from the sale of harvested [[Foreskin| foreskins]], the sale of products derived from harvested foreskins, the sale of circumcision specific tools and utensils, and the treatment of [[Complication| complications]] and botched circumcisions.
'''Financial incentive''' in the [[United States]] to perform medically-unnecessary, harmful, non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is very large. Non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] is a multi-billion dollar industry. Morgan (1967) termed it "<i>chronic remunerative surgery</i>", since physicians are paid over and over again for performing harmful unnecessary circumcision.<ref name="morgan1967">{{REFjournal
|last=Morgan
|first=
|init=WKC
|author-link=William Keith Campbell Morgan
|etal=NO
|title=Penile plunder
|trans-title=
|language=
|journal=Med J Aust
|location=
|date=1967-05-27
|volume=1
|issue=21
|article=
|page=
|pages=1102-3
|url=https://www.cirp.org/library/general/morgan2/
|archived=
|quote=
|pubmedID=4226264
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=10.5694/j.1326-5377.1967.tb20892.x
|doi=
|accessdate=2024-05-22
}}</ref> Profit is reaped not only from the practice of [[circumcision]] itself, and associated hospital charges, but also from the sale of harvested [[Foreskin| foreskins]], the sale of products derived from harvested foreskins, the sale of circumcision specific tools and utensils, and the treatment of [[Complication| complications]] and botched circumcisions.


== The procedure itself ==
== The procedure itself ==
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1.2 million baby boys are circumcised a year in the [[United States]] alone. At a dollar per procedure, that is already $1,200,000 a year. The going rate for a circumcision procedure is approximately $1,700 when hospital charges are included, multiplied by 1.2 million, that is approximately $2,040,000,000 a year that circumcision brings in based on the procedure alone.
1.2 million baby boys are [[circumcised]] a year in the [[United States]] alone. At a dollar per procedure, that is already $1,200,000 a year. The going rate for a circumcision procedure is approximately $1,700 when hospital charges are included, multiplied by 1.2 million, that is approximately $2,040,000,000 a year that circumcision brings in based on the procedure alone.


When a baby boy is to be [[circumcised]], mother and baby remain in hospital for about one-fourth of a day longer,<ref name="mansfield1995" /> so that increases the profit to the hospital.
When a baby boy is to be [[circumcised]], mother and baby remain in hospital for about one-fourth of a day longer,<ref name="mansfield1995" /> so that increases the profit to the hospital. Early in hospital [[circumcision]] permits obstetricians to make more money.


Bollinger (2012) estimates that the total cost of non-therapeutic male circumcision, including hospital costs, repair of botched circumcisions, treatment of complications, and so on is more than $3 billion per year.<ref name="bollinger2012">{{REFweb
Bollinger (2012) estimates that the total cost of non-therapeutic male circumcision, including hospital costs, repair of botched circumcisions, treatment of complications, and so on is more than $3 billion per year.<ref name="bollinger2012">{{REFweb
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[https://www.medicaid.gov/ Medicaid] is a medical insurance program for people whose income is below the federal poverty level (FPL}. However, in most states, pregnant women are covered to a variable amount above the FPL.
[https://www.medicaid.gov/ Medicaid] is a medical insurance program for people whose income is below the federal poverty level (FPL}. However, in most states, pregnant women are covered to a variable amount above the FPL.


The medical expenses of many births are borne by Medicaid. The percentage of births covered by Medicaid varies by state. It ranges from a low of 20 percent in Vermont to 71 percent in New Mexico.<ref>{{REFweb
The medical expenses of many births are borne by Medicaid.<ref name="jones2022">{{REFdocument
|title=FOIA Request sheds new light on AAP's motivations
|url=https://www.circumcisionharm.org/images-circharm.org/2022%20FOIA%20Report%20on%20Circumcision%20Ryan%20Jones%20CIAF.pdf
|contribution=
|last=Jones
|first=Ryan
|publisher=Circumcision is a Fraud
|format=PDF
|date=2022-02
|accessdate=2025-05-24
}}</ref> The percentage of births covered by Medicaid varies by state. It ranges from a low of 20 percent in Vermont to 71 percent in New Mexico.<ref>{{REFweb
  |url=https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/births-financed-by-medicaid/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D
  |url=https://www.kff.org/medicaid/state-indicator/births-financed-by-medicaid/?currentTimeframe=0&sortModel=%7B%22colId%22:%22Location%22,%22sort%22:%22asc%22%7D
  |title=Births financed by Medicaid
  |title=Births financed by Medicaid
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  |date=2013-09-05
  |date=2013-09-05
  |accessdate=2020-08-05
  |accessdate=2020-08-05
}}</ref> Circumcision is frequently included as part of the birth package of covered expenses, so third-party payment is provided.
}}</ref> Circumcision is frequently included as part of the birth package of covered expenses, so [[third-party payment]] is provided. Ryan Jones filed a freedom of information act request and learned that Medicaid paid for 6,260,830 circumcisions at a cost of $537,176,694.<ref name="jones2022" />


While 18 states have stopped paying for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]], 32 states still pay for it. Doctors may be driven to promote non-therapeutic circumcision if they get a free stipend from the state. Adler (2011) has argued that such payments are contrary to law.<ref>{{REFjournal
While 18 states have stopped paying for non-therapeutic [[circumcision]], 32 states still pay for it. Doctors may be driven to promote non-therapeutic circumcision if they get a free stipend from the state. Adler (2011) has argued that such payments are contrary to law.<ref>{{REFjournal
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== Profit from harvested foreskins ==
== Profit from harvested foreskins ==
Foreskins are sold to pharmaceutical companies for stem-cell research, the creation of synthetic [[skin]], and the creation of consumer products. Since the 1980s, private hospitals have been involved in the business of supplying discarded foreskins to private bio-research laboratories and pharmaceutical companies who require human flesh as raw research material.<ref name="hodges1997" /> They also supply foreskins to transnational corporations. Dr. Tania Phillips, professor of dermatology at {{UNI|Boston University|BU}} [http://www.bumc.bu.edu/ School of Medicine], insisting foreskin gathering and cultivating is scientifically and technologically "very promising." <ref>Ronald Rosenberg. 19 October 1992: 22-23.</ref>
Foreskins are sold to pharmaceutical companies for stem-cell research, the creation of synthetic [[skin]], and the creation of consumer products. Since the 1980s, private hospitals have been involved in the business of supplying discarded foreskins to private bio-research laboratories and pharmaceutical companies who require human flesh as raw research material.<ref name="hodges1997" /> They also supply foreskins to transnational corporations. Dr. Tania Phillips, professor of dermatology at {{UNI|Boston University|BU}} [http://www.bumc.bu.edu/ School of Medicine], insisting [[foreskin]] gathering and cultivating is scientifically and technologically "very promising".<ref>Ronald Rosenberg. 19 October 1992: 22-23.</ref>


=== Corporate benefactors ===
=== Corporate benefactors ===
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* [[LifeCell Corporation]] (Nasdaq:LIFC)
* [[LifeCell Corporation]] (Nasdaq:LIFC)
* [[SkinMedica]]
* [[SkinMedica]]
* [[Vavelta]]


=== FDA approved products ===
=== FDA approved products ===
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==Total annual costs of American circumcision==
==Total annual costs of American circumcision==


Bollinger (2012) estimated that the total annual cost of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] to Americans is $3,647,000,000.<ref name="bollinger2012"/>
Bollinger (2012) estimated that the total annual cost of non-therapeutic [[circumcision]] to Americans is $3,647,000,000.<ref name="bollinger2012"/> He has since updated his estimate of total annual cost in 2020 to be $5,685,000,000 or nearly six billion dollars per year.
 
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{{SEEALSO}}
{{SEEALSO}}
* [[Circumcision industry]]
* [[Circumcision industry]]
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  |url=https://intactamerica.org/economics-of-circumcision/
  |url=https://intactamerica.org/economics-of-circumcision/
  |title=The Economics of Circumcision: A Full Breakdown of This Penis Business
  |title=The Economics of Circumcision: A Full Breakdown of This Penis Business
  |last=Anonymous
  |last=Garrett
|first=Connor
  |publisher=Intact America
  |publisher=Intact America
  |date=2023-12-21
  |date=2023-12-21
  |accessdate=2023-12-31
  |accessdate=2023-12-31
}}
* {{REFweb
|url=https://intactamerica.org/adult-circumcision-cost/
|title=Adult Circumcision Cost: The Profit Motives and Hidden Toll
|last=Garrett
|first=Connor
|init=
|publisher=Intact America
|date=2024-03-07
|accessdate=2024-05-09
}}
}}


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