Wolves in White Coats: Hospitals Billed $ 120 Million For Juvenile Sex-change Procedures

Vice President J.D. Vance and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. have now referred hospitals and gender clinics identified in the HHS report titled: Wolves in White Coats: How Doctors and Hospitals Pushed and Profited from the Fraud of “Gender Medicine" to Attorney General Blanche for prosecution:

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Vance, Kennedy refer gender clinics for prosecution based on HHS billing fraud probe
If flagged providers were "intentionally" miscoding treatment to "secure insurance coverage for gender-transitioning interventions that insurance would not otherwise cover," Vance says "they should go to prison."
By Greg Piper - August 13, 2026

A day after the Trump administration ended federal funding of "sex-rejecting procedures on children," otherwise known as gender affirming care, Vice President J.D. Vance and Health and Human Services Secretary Robert F. Kennedy Jr. referred hospitals and gender clinics identified in a new HHS billing fraud report for prosecution and investigation.

Vance's letter to Attorney General Todd Blanche asks the Justice Department to investigate whether flagged providers violated the Food, Drug, and Cosmetic Act, False Claims Act and federal fraud and conspiracy laws by "intentionally" miscoding treatment to "secure insurance coverage for gender-transitioning interventions that insurance would not otherwise cover." If so, "they should go to prison."

"More than just pushing these procedures on kids, hospitals and providers may have been defrauding Medicaid and private insurers by using misleading or fraudulent billing codes to get insurance to cover the costs," Vance said in an X thread on the report and criminal referral.

Kennedy's letter to HHS Inspector General T. March Bell asks him to review "an objectively defined cohort of claims that exhibit potentially anomalous billing patterns" by hundreds of flagged providers in the HHS report, which may violate federal law.

The secretary's letter identifies four fishy cohorts: claims for puberty blockers with endocrine disorder diagnosis on the same claim with "no gender diagnosis" and "no precocious puberty" diagnosis, ages 9-17; claims for puberty blockers with precocious puberty diagnosis, 13-17; claims for "primary gender dysphoria" diagnosis with a cross-sex hormone prescription "written the same day" in a state where that's prohibited for minors, 17 and younger; and affiliates to whom prescribers billed at least 95% of their claims in a prescription year and are registered at one of their addresses, all of them Planned Parenthood clinics.

One of the original Texas whistleblowers sees the hospital who fired her do a 180.

https://www.dailysignal.com/2026/08/14/sivadge-story-detransition-clinic/

Vanessa Sivadge Shares the Story Behind America’s First-Ever Detransition Clinic

Emma Dayton    |    August 14, 2026

In a historic $10 million settlement, Texas Children’s Hospital agreed to open the nation’s first-ever detransition clinic by October and fire five physicians after the hospital allegedly funded gender-transition procedures using Texas Medicaid.

Vanessa Sivadge, the whistleblower who sounded the alarm in May 2023, explained that working as a nurse at Texas Children’s Hospital was a dream come true.

“I thought I had peaked in my career,” Sivadge said during an appearance before grassroots leaders at Heritage Action’s Southwest Sentinel Summit in Phoenix this month.

“I thought this was going to be my dream job where I would be for the rest of my life,” she said.

Sivadge recalled watching Texas Children’s Hospital “sell a lie” to struggling children and make them “a slave to the pharmaceutical industry for life” through permanent gender-transition procedures.

“They were promised that on the other side of medical transition, that they would find fulfillment and happiness and peace,” Sivadge said. “That is the lie of the gender medicine industry. It convinces and exploits children to believe that they were born into the wrong body, that they are not fearfully and wonderfully made, and that their confusion will resolve on the other side of a drug or a surgery.”

Sivadge told the crowd of grassroots leaders that this spiritual attack on God’s design of “male and female” eventually forced her to expose the “darkness.”

“So, with a lot of fear and with a lot of tears and a lot of uncertainty, I called a journalist in May of 2023,” Sivadge said. “That is when, anonymously, I blew the whistle against the secret transgender medicine program that Texas Children’s Hospital was conducting.”

While she thought no one knew her identity, Sivadge was shocked when two agents from the Biden-Harris Federal Bureau of Investigation knocked on the front door of her home. Sivadge explained that the FBI agents proceeded to intimidate and threaten her to remain silent about the alleged Medicaid fraud.

Yet what she characterized as a scare tactic had the opposite of its intended effect.

“I often say now that if the FBI hadn’t come to our home and hadn’t threatened my career, my safety, I don’t think that I would have been as emboldened as I was to do what happened next,” Sivadge said.

Sivadge came forward publicly in June 2024 after seeing three ways the hospital was allegedly committing fraud: failing to list the biological sex on claims; using false diagnoses to receive reimbursements; and filing for Medicaid when Texas clearly forbids taxpayer-funded gender procedures.

Texas Children’s Hospital fired Sivadge two months later, and the nurse was unable to find other employment after the hospital began making public statements. Sivadge finally found an ally in President Donald Trump when he assumed office in 2025. One week after she testified in a congressional hearing on ending lawfare toward whistleblowers who protect children, the Department of Health and Human Services launched a formal investigation.

“The most important and the most profound action that was taken was that they opened a whistleblower tip line for the first time ever, where they invited the public to submit tips on this publicly accessible tip line under HHS,” Sivadge said.

She believes the new detransition clinic will provide hope to those who are victims of gender procedures.

“This will be the first clinic of its kind where not just victims from Texas, but victims from America, victims from all over the world will be able to come and get free mental and medical care for the first five years,” Sivadge said.

Sivadge is now the president of Protecting Texas Children, an organization she founded to advocate for Texas children to “fulfill their God-given potential.” She continues to speak up on the realities of “radical gender ideologies” and encourages others to advocate for the rights of children.

“My advocacy has just changed addresses,” Sivadge said. “Before it was in the hospital, and now it’s in the capital.”

“Each one of you has an opportunity to expose darkness and to embrace what is right and good and beautiful and true,” Sivadge said. “And so, that would be my encouragement to each of you, is to choose courage.”