HEALTH EQUALITY CAMPAIGN
NORTH CAROLINA MEDICAID ACTION PAGE
North Carolina Medicaid Proposes To Enrich Hospitals With Profits From
Routine Infant Circumcision
After more than a decade, North Carolina is proposing to alter their regulatory policy to have their Medicaid program, once again, pay hospitals and doctors to perform infant circumcision. State officials want to insert clever language into Regulation 1A-22 so routine infant circumcision under State Medicaid can resume for almost any reason. This is in violation of the intent of State law and unauthorized Medicaid expansion. North Carolina hospitals and clinics are in line to start profiting again from cutting baby boy’s genitals.
Please watch this video for more information about this issue.
This is how State Medicaid officials and their hospital/doctor allies intend to get around the prohibition on Medicaid payments for routine infant circumcision.
Under the proposal, a doctor would be able to provide Medicaid circumcision for infants. The parents just have to express a need for “HIV prophylaxis,” or be coached to say that.
So this is what could happen. A baby boy is born, doctor solicits the parents for circumcision for any reason, parents sign consent, hospital coder/biller enters HIV prophylaxis on the chart. Doctor/hospital gets paid by Medicaid.
By citing HIV prophylaxis it basically covers any excuse by parents or doctors to get Medicaid paid circumcisions in violation of the intent of State Medicaid law.
The whole thing is preposterous because babies are not at risk for sexually transmitted HIV.
For those that wish to read the entire public notice
It appears that this was adopted on December 4, 2019, and has therefore been policy for nearly a year.
The Health Equality Campaign had a meeting November 6th 2020, with the Chief Medical Officer of the NC Medicaid, and that is not our understanding. The public comment period on this policy recently ended, and they can’t enact policy prior to public comment. 1A-22 has been around a long time, what they are now doing is inserting the HIV prophylaxis reason which would be a subterfuge for any reason to circumcise.
I am a Vegan Intactivist in Wales, UK… I believe every child deserves the right to full genital autonomy and those who promote cutting any childs genitals should be prosecuted for serious sexual assault and grievous bodily harm! reposted yourvideo to twitter & facebook… best wishes.
Thank you Ann-Marie from across the pond!
Circumcision is not medically necessary and in 99.9% of all cases performed a needless form of genital mutilation. It is an
Illegal violations of a human right to bodily integrity.
It would be interesting to trace the connections of those who finally got routine circumcision reinstated because the entire reasons Medicaid gives are illogical and bogus. It’s political for the cash. I suspect a politician with ties to ACOG.