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'''Third-party payment''' is the term used to refer to payments for medical services and procedures by a third-party, usually public or private medical or health insurance company or government program.
Third-party payment for unnecessary, harmful, or injurious medical procedures encourages the performance of such services, simply so the attending physician can collect a fee.Kamanzi et al. (2023) reported:<blockquote>Private insurance plans reimburse significantly more than public plans for newborn circumcision. For non-newborn circumcision, private plans reimburse more than public but the coverage is more restricted, with a smaller differential between newborn and non-newborn circumcision. This coverage and reimbursement structure may indirectly encourage newborn circumcision for privately insured boys and non-newborn circumcision for publicly insured boys.<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Kamanzi |first= |init=SN |author-link= |last2=Walton |first2= |init2=RF |author2-link= |last3=Rosoklija |first3= |init3=I |author3-link= |last4=Corona |first4= |init4=LE |author4-link= |last5=Holt |first5= |init5=JL |author5-link= |last6= |first6= |init6= |author6-link= |last7=Johnson |first7= |init7=EK |author7-link= |etal=no |title=Differential Insurance Plan Coverage and Surgeon Reimbursement of Pediatric Circumcision at an Urban, Midwestern Hospital |trans-title= |language= |journal=Urology |date=2023-09 |volume=179 |issue= |article= |pages=143-50 |url=https://www.goldjournal.net/article/S0090-4295(23)00475-2/abstract |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=37343682 |pubmedCID= |DOI=10.1016/j.urology.2023.04.031 |accessdate=2025-01-31}}</ref></blockquote>
Third-party payment for injurious medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic child [[circumcision]] in the [[United States]] keeps the incidence of non-therapeutic circumcision of children higher than any other industrial nation.<ref>{{REFweb
}}</ref> The only party to benefit from such third-party payments is the receiving physician, 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. It was published in 2012 but was poorly received because of its evident omissions of facts. The 2012 AAP statement was an acute embarrassment to the AAP so it was not re-affirmed is 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.
==The certain harm of circumcision==
[[Circumcision]] is a cutting operation to amputate a functional part of the [[penis]]. Newborn boys cannot receive general anesthesia, so every circumcision of newbory boys causes great [[pain]]. Analgesia is offered to sell circumcision by making parents feel better, but does little for the infant boy. There is also extreme physical and psychic [[trauma]] caused by the loss of a body part. The [[foreskin]] normally has [[Foreskin#Physiological_functions| protective, immunological, sensory, and sexual functions]], which are destroyed with the [[amputation]].