{"id":1952166,"date":"2023-06-20T17:03:02","date_gmt":"2023-06-20T21:03:02","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vanderbilt-gives-tennessee-ag-gender-clinic-patient-records-under-investigation-for-billing-fraud\/"},"modified":"2023-06-20T17:04:28","modified_gmt":"2023-06-20T21:04:28","slug":"vanderbilt-gives-tennessee-ag-gender-clinic-patient-records-under-investigation-for-billing-fraud","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vanderbilt-gives-tennessee-ag-gender-clinic-patient-records-under-investigation-for-billing-fraud\/","title":{"rendered":"Vanderbilt hands over gender clinic records to TN AG amid billing fraud probe."},"content":{"rendered":"<aside class=\"mashsb-container mashsb-main mashsb-stretched\"><div class=\"mashsb-box\"><div class=\"mashsb-count mash-medium\" style=\"&quot;\"><div class=\"counts mashsbcount\">26<\/div><span class=\"mashsb-sharetext\">SHARES<\/span><\/div><div class=\"mashsb-buttons\"><a class=\"mashicon-facebook mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/www.facebook.com\/sharer.php?u=https%3A%2F%2Fwww.conservativenewsdaily.net%2Fbreaking-news%2Fvanderbilt-gives-tennessee-ag-gender-clinic-patient-records-under-investigation-for-billing-fraud%2F\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Facebook<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-twitter mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/intent\/tweet?text=&amp;url=https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/?p=1952166&amp;via=ConservNewsDly\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Twitter<\/span><\/a><a class=\"mashicon-subscribe mash-medium mash-nomargin mashsb-noshadow\" href=\"#\" target=\"_top\" rel=\"nofollow\"><span class=\"icon\"><\/span><span class=\"text\">Subscribe<\/span><\/a><div class=\"onoffswitch2 mash-medium mashsb-noshadow\" style=\"display:none\"><\/div><\/div>\n            <\/div>\n                <div style=\"clear:both\"><\/div><\/aside>\n            <!-- Share buttons by mashshare.net - Version: 4.0.47--><p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.dailywire.com\/topic\/vanderbilt-university\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Vanderbilt University Medical Center<\/a> (VUMC) has caught the attention of the Tennessee Attorney General\u2019s Office. The office is currently investigating the hospital for potential medical billing fraud, and VUMC has cooperated by turning over the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/president-trump-please-pardon-jon-woods-a-victim-of-process-crimes-like-michael-flynn\/\" title=\"President Trump, Please Pardon Jon Woods, a Victim of Process Crimes Like Michael Flynn\">medical records<\/a> of its gender clinic patients.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The investigation was prompted by VUMC&#8217;s recent decision to comply with a new Tennessee law that prohibits the provision of <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/very-complicated-dr-rachel-levine-dodges-sen-pauls-issue-about-sex-adjustments-for-children\/\" title=\"\u2018Very Complicated\u2019: Dr. Rachel Levine Dodges Sen. Paul\u2019s Issue About Sex Adjustments For Children\">cross-sex hormones<\/a> and <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/sen-rand-paul-offers-dr-rachel-levine-as-example-of-radical-agenda-riding-bidens-coattails\/\" title=\"Sen. Rand Paul Offers Dr. Rachel Levine As Example Of Radical Agenda Riding Biden\u2019s Coattails\">sex-change surgeries<\/a> to minors. The Tennessee Attorney General&#8217;s office confirmed that it has the legal authority to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/vanderbilt-gives-tennessee-ag-gender-clinic-patient-records-under-investigation-for-billing-fraud\/\" title=\"Vanderbilt hands over gender clinic records to TN AG amid billing fraud probe.\">request relevant patient medical records<\/a> as part of its investigation.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">John Howser, a spokesman for VUMC, stated, &#8220;VUMC was obligated to comply and did so.&#8221; While Tennessee law typically mandates the confidentiality of medical records, the investigation allows the Attorney General to pursue these records.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The disclosure of the medical records to the state has raised concerns among families, particularly regarding the privacy of their children. Chris Sanders, executive director of the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.tnep.org\/\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener\">Tennessee Equality Project<\/a>, reported that parents of transgender children have expressed panic and fear over the situation. Sanders also mentioned that many are disappointed with VUMC for not putting up a stronger fight against the state.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">Despite these concerns, VUMC clearly informs its patients that their information may be shared with law enforcement and other officials as required by law. The Tennessee Attorney General&#8217;s Chief of Staff, Brandon Smith, emphasized that the investigation is solely focused on VUMC&#8217;s billing practices and not the patients themselves.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span style=\"font-weight: 400\">The investigation into VUMC follows a contentious legislative session in Tennessee, during which lawmakers sought to <a href=\"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/biden-admin-releases-plan-to-teach-emergency-shelters-how-to-provide-gender-affirming-care-to-the-homeless\/\" title=\"Biden Admin Releases Plan to Teach Emergency Shelters How to Provide \"Gender Affirming Care\" to the Homeless\">ban transgender treatments<\/a> for minors. This legislation was prompted by The Daily Wire&#8217;s investigation into VUMC&#8217;s gender clinic, which revealed concerning practices.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Vanderbilt University Medical Center (VUMC) handed over gender clinic patients&#8217; records to the Tennessee Attorney General&#8217;s Office. The office is investigating the hospital for possible medical billing fraud. Tennessee Attorney General Jonathan Skrmetti&#8217;s office confirmed the ongoing investigation into the troubled medical center, which recently stopped offering cross<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2107,"featured_media":1952167,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_mo_disable_npp":"","fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[541],"tags":[24088,11349,6909,4685,6307,4083,3918,28685],"class_list":["post-1952166","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-the-daily-wire","tag-billing","tag-clinic","tag-fraud","tag-gender","tag-hands","tag-probe","tag-records","tag-vanderbilt"],"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/cndimages.nyc3.digitaloceanspaces.com\/breaking-news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2021\/01\/IMG_2758-scaled-1.jpg","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952166","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2107"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1952166"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1952166\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1952167"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1952166"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1952166"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.conservativenewsdaily.net\/breaking-news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1952166"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}