Investigation demanded of potential Medicaid Fraud at Texas Children’s Hospital

WAXAHACHIE – Texas Representative Brian Harrison and Senator Mayes Middleton sent a letter to the Executive Commissioner and Inspector General at Texas Health and Human Services Commission asking that they investigate possible Medicaid fraud at Texas Children’s Hospital. 

This letter follows reports last week from a nurse at TCH, Vanessa Sivadge, that Texas Children’s was illegally billing Medicaid for sex-change procedures.

Harrison wrote, “Texas must not sit idly by while Biden wages LAWFARE against brave whistleblowers who have exposed credible claims of CHILD ABUSE and MEDICAID FRAUD at Texas Children’s Hospital.  

“Senator Mayes Middleton and I are now demanding Texas Health and Human Services Commission immediately investigate.

Last year, a whistleblower at Texas Children’s Hospital  exposed the continuation of sex-change procedures on children as young as 11.  

The hospital previously claimed it had ended these abhorrent practices after Attorney General Paxton and Governor Abbott adjudicated those procedures were child abuse.  

However, the whistleblower, later identified as Dr. Eithan Haim, produced evidence that it was still occurring at the hospital.  

This month, the Department of Justice arrived with heavily armed agents at Dr. Haim’s house to serve him four felony indictments related to alleged HIPAA violations.

He faces 10 years in federal prison.

Last week news broke that the DOJ targeted a second whistleblower connected to TCH.

According to reports, Nurse Vanessa Sivadge helped Dr. Haim expose the hospital last year.

She then had two FBI agents come to her house and, in her words, “promised they would make life difficult” for her, and told her she was “not safe at work.”  

In spite of this,  Sivadge just released new information claiming that TCH is illegally billing Medicaid for transgender procedures. 

In response to these recent allegations of lawfare by Biden’s Department of Justice against whistleblowers exposing illegal and abusive sex-change procedures on Texas children and possible Medicaid fraud by Texas Children’s Hospital, Rep. Brian Harrison requested Speaker Phelan hold an emergency interim hearing.