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Third-party payment for non-therapeutic or unnecessary medical procedures encourages the performance of such services, simply so the attending physician can collect a fee.
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 |url=https://www.researchgate.net/publication/350799429_Circumcision_Incidence_in_Mississippi |archived= |title=Circumcision Incidence in Mississippi |trans-title= |language= |last=Hill |first=George |author-link= |publisher=Research Gate |website= |date=2021-04 |accessdate=2021-04-14 |format=PDF |quote=Depending on the accuracy of the assumptions, these figures may indicate that cessation of Medicaid payments and other third-party payments is a highly effective way to reduce the incidence of harmful non-therapeutic circumcision and to improve male health and well-being. (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, 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 AAP statement was not re-affirmed is accordance with AAP policy, so it expired on August 31, 2017.
# A physician's fee.
Parents are reminded that neonatal [[circumcision]] has no medical indication, does not provide treat disease, is non-therapeutic, unnecessary, and causes life-long irreversible harm because of the loss of the [[https://en.intactiwiki.org/index.php/Foreskin#Physiological_functions multi-functional foreskin]].<ref>{{REFjournal |last=Green |first=Lawrence |init= |author-link= |last2=McAllister |first2=Ryan |init2= |author2-link= |last3=Peterson |first3=Kent |init3= |author3-link= |last4=Travis |first4=John |init4= |author4-link= |etal=no |title=Medicaid coverage of circumcision spreads harm to the poor. |trans-title= |language= |journal=Am J Public Health |location= |date=2009-04 |volume=99 |issue=4 |article= |page=584 |pages= |url=https://ajph.aphapublications.org/doi/full/10.2105/AJPH.2008.156463 |archived= |quote= |pubmedID=19150892 |pubmedCID=2661476 |DOI=10.2105/AJPH.2008.156463 |accessdate=2021-04-14}}</ref>