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The Trump Administration wants to root out fraud, waste, and abuse in the federal government. Payment for non-therapeutic child circumcision qualifies as all three.
* <b>Fraud: </b> Circumcision is promoted with false statements regarding its alleged value.<ref>{{REFbook
|last=Adler
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|accessdate=2025-12-28
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* <b>Waste: </b> Federal funds used to pay the federal portion of Medicaid third-party payments is waste because it does not treat, prevent, or cure disease.<ref name="adler2011" />* Abuse: Payment for unnecessary, non-therapeutic surgical procedures is a violation of federal law and is abusive.[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] published a review of the issues concerning payment for non-therapeutic circumcision for CMS in 2019,<refname="doc2019">{{REFdocument
|title=Male Circumcision: A special report to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
|url=https://pool.intactiwiki.org/w/images/Male_Circumcision_DOC_2019-02-01.pdf
|date=2019-02-01
|accessdate=2025-12-08
}}</ref>* <b>Abuse:</b> Payment for unnecessary, non-therapeutic surgical procedures is a violation of federal law and is abusive.<ref name="adler2011" />[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] published a review of the issues concerning payment for non-therapeutic circumcision for CMS in 2019,<ref name="doc2019" /> but it has been ignored.
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