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== Medicaid pays for it ==
While 18 states have stopped paying for it, 32 states pay for circumcision. Doctors may be driven to promote circumcision if they get a free stipend from the state.
The AAP 2012 Policy Statement on Circumcision states that "Although health benefits are not great enough to recommend routine circumcision for all male newborns, the benefits of circumcision are sufficient to justify access to this procedure for families choosing it and to '''warrant third-party payment''' for circumcision of male newborns. It is important that clinicians routinely inform parents of the health benefits and risks of male newborn circumcision in an unbiased and accurate manner." and "The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has endorsed this statement."<ref>{{REFweb
|last=
|first=
|date=2012-08-27
|title=Circumcision Policy Statement
|url=http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/3/585
|publisher=Pediatrics
|accessdate=2012-11-24
}}</ref> Many new born circumcisions are performed by Obstetricians.
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The '''Financial Incentive''' to perform medically-unnecessary, non-therapeutic circumcision is very large. Circumcision , in the United States, is a multi-million dollar industry. Profit is reaped not only from the practice of circumcision itself, and associated hospital charges, but also from the sale of harvested foreskins, the sale of products derived from harvested foreskins, and the sale of circumcision specific tools and utensils.
== The procedure itself ==
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== Medicaid pays for it ==
While 18 states have stopped paying for it, 32 states pay for circumcision. Doctors may be driven to promote circumcision if they get a free stipend from the state.
The now expired AAP 2012 Policy Statement on Circumcision states that "Although health benefits are not great enough to recommend routine (i.e. non-therapeutic) circumcision for all male newborns, the benefits of circumcision are sufficient to justify access to this procedure for families choosing it and to '''warrant third-party payment''' for circumcision of male newborns. It is important that clinicians routinely inform parents of the health benefits and risks of male newborn circumcision in an unbiased and accurate manner." and "The American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists has endorsed this statement."<ref>{{REFweb
|last=
|first=
|date=2012-08-27
|title=Circumcision Policy Statement
|url=http://pediatrics.aappublications.org/content/130/3/585
|publisher=Pediatrics
|accessdate=2012-11-24
}}</ref> Many new born circumcisions are performed by Obstetricians.
== Auxiliary tools ==
* [[AlloDerm]]
* [[TNS Recovery Complex]]
== Grants from pro-circumcision interest groups ==