ATTOR­NEY GEN­ER­AL PAX­TON FINAL­IZES HIS­TORIC SET­TLE­MENT WITH TEXAS CHILDREN'S HOS­PI­TAL, CRE­AT­ING FIRST-EVER DETRAN­SI­TION CLIN­IC AND SECUR­ING NEAR­LY $10 MIL­LION FOR TEXAS

AUSTIN, Aug. 5 -- The Texas Attorney General issued the following press release:

Attorney General Ken Paxton's historic settlement agreement with Texas Children's Hospital ("Texas Children's") has been fully executed.

In May, Attorney General Paxton secured the landmark settlement with Texas Children's, which compels the creation of the country's first-ever Detransition Clinic. It requires the hospital to pay $10 million to resolve claims brought under the Texas Health Care Program Fraud Prevention Act and the federal False Claims Act for billing Texas Medicaid for unallowable and illegal "gender-transition" interventions. Among other things, the settlement also compels the permanent and irrevocable termination of privileges of multiple p...