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'''{{FULLPAGENAME}}''' (CMS) is the U. S. government agency that administers Medicare and Medicaid. The CMS is directed by Dr. [[Mehmet Cengiz Öz]].
==Circumcision issues==
The CMS by federal law must pay only for medically-necessary services. There are no medical indications for [[circumcision of the newborn]].
The CMS unlawfully provides third-party payment for non-therapeutic circumcision in most states.<ref name="adler2011">{{REFjournal
|last=Adler
|first=Peter W.
|init=PW
|author-link=Peter W. Adler
|title=Is it 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=
|pubmedID=22320007
|pubmedCID=
|DOI=
|format=PDF
|accessdate=2025-12-08
}}</ref>
[[Doctors Opposing Circumcision]] published a review of the issues for CMS in 2019, but it has been ignored.<ref>{{REFdocument
|title=Male Circumcision: A special report to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services
|url=https://pool.intactiwiki.org/w/images/Male_Circumcision_DOC_2019-02-01.pdf
|contribution=
|last=Anonymous
|publisher=Doctors Opposing Circumcision
|format=PDF
|date=2019-02-01
|accessdate=2025-12-08
}}</ref>
{{SEEALSO}}
[[Category:American healthcare reform]]
[[Category:Scandal]]
[[Category:USA]]