{"type":"rich","version":"1.0","provider_name":"Transistor","provider_url":"https://transistor.fm","author_name":"You Must Be Some Kind of Therapist","title":"191. Insurance Fraud Enables Medical Abuse of “Trans” Kids: Dr. Eithan Haim Blows the Whistle Again","html":"","width":"100%","height":180,"duration":5438,"description":"Dr. Eithan Haim first became nationally known as the whistleblower on Texas Children's Hospital's secret pediatric gender program. After facing prosecution by the Biden Department of Justice and the prospect of ten years in prison, the surgeon was ultimately successful in his case and is now practicing medicine while continuing to expose ethical violations in pediatric sex trait modification.Today, we dive deep into the insurance fraud that enables gender clinics to operate—a layer of scandal beneath the already discredited evidence base for these interventions. Dr. Haim explains how medical billing codes work and reveals that clinics are routinely using false diagnosis codes to get insurance companies to cover hormones, blockers, and surgeries. We discuss the 95% rate of fraudulent \"endocrine disorder unspecified\" diagnoses found at one university gender clinic, how patients' sex is being falsified in medical records, and how the American Medical Association—with its government-mandated monopoly on medical coding—may be facilitating this fraud.What are the consequences of this scheme? Why would the AMA recommend coding mastectomies as \"breast reductions\"? How is this affecting insurance premiums for ordinary Americans? And where does Dr. Haim see all of this heading? This conversation will change how you understand the machinery behind gender medicine.Dr. Eithan Haim is a general and trauma surgeon in Greenville, Texas. In 2023, he served as the anonymous whistleblower who exposed Texas Children's Hospital for secretly continuing its pediatric gender program after publicly claiming it had shut down. Within 24 hours of the story's publication, the Texas Senate passed bipartisan legislation banning these interventions on minors.The Biden Department of Justice responded by charging Dr. Haim with four federal felonies, sending armed U.S. Marshals to his home on the morning of his surgical residency graduation. Facing up to 10 years in prison, he and his wife—an...","thumbnail_url":"https://img.transistorcdn.com/7R2fJL6ksh0-aqhZGIKVghpF0n5-RelfaD139dcIBCQ/rs:fill:0:0:1/w:400/h:400/q:60/mb:500000/aHR0cHM6Ly9pbWct/dXBsb2FkLXByb2R1/Y3Rpb24udHJhbnNp/c3Rvci5mbS9zaG93/LzI1NzQ0LzE2NDQy/NzA3NjktYXJ0d29y/ay5qcGc.webp","thumbnail_width":300,"thumbnail_height":300}