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The [[American Academy of Pediatrics]] created its failed 2012 policy statement (expired in 2017) 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.<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 |archived= |title=Having a Baby Boy? Intact America Warns, ‘Get Ready for the Circumcision Sellers!' |trans-title= |language=English |last=Chapin |first=Georganne |author-link=Georganne Chapin |publisher=Intact America |website=prweb |date=2019-11-18 |accessdate=2020-12-15 |format= |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.}} </ref> Giving in to the constant solicitation means that two charges will be incurred: # A hospital service charge or facility fee.# A physician's fee. Parents are reminded that neonatal [[circumcision]] has no [[medical indication]], does not treat disease, is non-therapeutic, unnecessary, and causes life-long irreversible harm because of the loss of the [[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.2008doctors.156463 |accessdate=2021-04-14}}</ref>