Texas Attorney General · October 27, 2026 · Primary source
Attorney General Ken Paxton Announces Nation’s First-Ever Detransition Clinic Is Now Open as Result of His Historic Settlement with Texas Children’s Hospital
Summary
Texas Attorney General Ken Paxton announced that Texas Children's Hospital has opened a Detransition Clinic, fulfilling a requirement of a May 2026 settlement resolving state Medicaid fraud claims brought under the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act. The settlement required Texas Children's to pay $10 million, permanently terminate privileges of multiple physicians, amend its bylaws to require automatic privilege relinquishment for physicians who perform gender-transition interventions, and fully fund the Detransition Clinic for five years at no cost to patients. The claims arose from billing Texas Medicaid for gender-transition interventions characterized by the AG as unallowable and illegal.
What this may mean
Texas Children's Hospital is bound by a settlement requiring a $10 million payment, permanent physician privilege terminations, bylaw amendments mandating automatic privilege relinquishment for gender-transition procedures, and five years of funded clinic operations. The settlement establishes a state enforcement precedent applying the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act to Medicaid billing for gender-transition services, creating potential audit and enforcement exposure for other Texas providers that bill state Medicaid for such procedures. Hospitals and health systems in Texas that maintain medical staff bylaws permitting gender-transition procedures face a new compliance benchmark created by the bylaw-amendment requirement imposed on Texas Children's.
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