Overview

• UChicago Medicine announced it will discontinue all pediatric gender-affirming services effective immediately to protect its Medicare and Medicaid reimbursements.
• The decision comes just weeks after Rush University paused hormone treatments for new patients under 18 and months after Lurie Children’s halted surgeries for minors.
• Hospital leaders cited threats to cut federal research grants and reimbursements under the January executive order as the driving factor behind the rollback.
• Illinois Attorney General Kwame Raoul joined 14 other state attorneys general in pledging to defend providers and patients seeking gender-affirming care.
• The U.S. Department of Justice has issued over 20 subpoenas to doctors and lawyers accused of performing transgender medical procedures on children.