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Four attorneys general in conservative states have abused their authority to investigate transgender patients and their health care, and hospitals must do more to protect them, a new Senate Finance Committee report argues.
provided 65,000 pages of documents to Skrmetti’s office, “including the medical records of 82 transgender patients, 72 of whom are Medicaid beneficiaries.” by two patients whose medical information it provided to the attorney general. Michael Regier, the medical center’s general counsel and secretary, said that the hospital disputes the report’s findings and that it had “sent a detailed letter outlining our concerns about its proposed findings before it was released.” “Under the current law, state and federal government authorities are permitted to seek medical records for investigations, and healthcare providers must comply.
is ongoing, and it “exclusively targets health care providers, not any patients,” Amy Lannom Wilhite, Skrmetti’s spokesperson, said in an emailed statement. “Our Civil Medicaid Fraud Unit began investigating after watching a video in which a
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