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The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] created its 2012 policy statement (now expired) specifically to preserve and protect third party payment. | The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] created its 2012 policy statement (now expired) specifically to preserve and protect third party payment. | ||
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| + | ==Solicitation for circumcision surgery== | ||
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| + | [[Intact America]] commissioned a survey by Qualtrics of the number of times that parents are solicited for a consent for non-therapeutic infant circumcision. The average was 8 times, which resulted in a 143 percent increase in the number of non-therapeutic, medically-unnecessary circumcisions carried out.<ref name="intactamerica2020">{{REFweb | ||
| + | |url=https://www.prweb.com/releases/having_a_baby_boy_intact_america_warns_get_ready_for_the_circumcision_sellers/prweb17552844.htm | ||
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| + | |title=Having a Baby Boy? Intact America Warns, ‘Get Ready for the Circumcision Sellers!' | ||
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| + | |last=Chapin | ||
| + | |first=Georganne | ||
| + | |author-link=Georganne Chapin | ||
| + | |publisher=Intact America | ||
| + | |website=prweb | ||
| + | |date=2019-11-18 | ||
| + | |accessdate=2020-12-15 | ||
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| + | |quote=Each year, an estimated 1.5 million baby boys are circumcised in American medical settings. Intact America estimates that if circumcision solicitations were to cease, 600,000 boys—and the men they will become—would be spared every year from the trauma and lifelong consequences of the procedure. | ||
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Revision as of 17:53, 15 December 2020
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 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. 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.
United States Medicaid is one of the largest third-party payers for medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision.[1]
The American Academy of Pediatrics created its 2012 policy statement (now expired) specifically to preserve and protect third party payment.
Solicitation for circumcision surgery
Intact America commissioned a survey by Qualtrics of the number of times that parents are solicited for a consent for non-therapeutic infant circumcision. The average was 8 times, which resulted in a 143 percent increase in the number of non-therapeutic, medically-unnecessary circumcisions carried out.[2]
See also
External links
The Foreskin Industry
, Acroposthion. Retrieved 2 March 2020.
References
- ↑
Adler, Peter W.. It is lawful to use Medicaid to pay for circumcision?. Journal of Law and Medicine. 2011; 19: 335-353. Retrieved 8 November 2019.
- ↑ Chapin, Georganne (18 November 2019).
Having a Baby Boy? Intact America Warns, ‘Get Ready for the Circumcision Sellers!'
, prweb, Intact America. Retrieved 15 December 2020.
Quote:Each year, an estimated 1.5 million baby boys are circumcised in American medical settings. Intact America estimates that if circumcision solicitations were to cease, 600,000 boys—and the men they will become—would be spared every year from the trauma and lifelong consequences of the procedure.
