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Court Filing Reveals Justice Department Subpoena Demanding Trans Youth Patient Data From Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia

The disclosure details sweeping record demands dating to 2020 that underpin a federal probe now central to mounting state lawsuits.

FILE - Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) Roberts Center for Pediatric Research in Philadelphia, May 16, 2019. (AP Photo/Matt Rourke, File)
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FILE - Demonstrators against transgenders rights protest during a rally outside of the Supreme Court, Dec. 4, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)
FILE - Protesters for and against gender-affirming care for transgender minors demonstrate outside the Supreme Court on Dec. 4, 2024, in Washington. (AP Photo/Jose Luis Magana, File)

Overview

  • The June 11 subpoena seeks names, birth dates, Social Security numbers, addresses, doctors’ notes, billing files, and emails, voicemails, and encrypted messages related to care for minors.
  • Requests cover records back to Jan. 1, 2020, including documentation of diagnoses, clinical indications, informed consent, intake procedures, insurance codes, personnel files, and contacts with drug manufacturers.
  • Justice Department officials say they have issued more than 20 subpoenas to providers as part of investigations into healthcare fraud and false statements, though no criminal charges have been announced.
  • Hospitals across the country have curtailed or ended youth gender-affirming services, including in states where such care is legal, with Children’s Hospital Los Angeles closing its clinic in July.
  • The subpoena became public through court filings in state-led challenges to the administration’s directives, alongside related federal pressure such as CMS data demands to nine hospitals and an FBI tipline request.