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}}</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 in the eight years from 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