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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. The only party to benefit from such third-party payments is the receiving physician, or hospital.
United States Medicaid is one of the largest third-party payers for medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision.<ref name="adler2011>{{REFjournal
|last=Adler
|first=Peter W.
|author-link=Peter W. Adler
|title=It is lawful to use Medicaid to pay for circumcision?
|journal=Journal of Law and Medicine
|date=2011
|volume=19
|issue=
|pages=335-353
|url=https://www.arclaw.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/04/is-it-lawful-to-use-medicaid-to-pay-for-circumcision.pdf
|quote=
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|accessdate=2019-11-08
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