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Medicare and Medicaid Programs; Hospital Condition of Participation: Prohibiting Sex-Rejecting Procedures for Children
The Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services published this proposed rule in the Federal Register on December 19, 2025. Comments closed on February 17, 2026.
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What the agency says
This proposed rule would revise the requirements that Medicare and Medicaid certified hospitals must meet to participate in the Medicare and Medicaid programs. These changes are necessary to protect the health and safety of children and reflect HHS' review of recent information on the safety and efficacy of sex-rejecting procedures (SRPs) on children. The revisions to the requirements would prohibit hospitals from performing sex-rejecting procedures on children.
Key facts
- Document number
- 2025-23465
- Type
- Proposed rule
- Action
- Proposed rule
- Agency
- Health and Human Services Department; Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services
- Published
- December 19, 2025
- Comments due
- February 17, 2026
- Dates
- To be assured consideration, comments must be received at one of the addresses provided below, no later than 5 p.m. on February 17, 2026.
- Docket
- CMS-3481-P
- Regulation ID (RIN)
- 0938-AV87
- Code of Federal Regulations
- 42 CFR 482
- Topics
- Grant programs-health; Hospitals; Medicaid; Medicare; Reporting and recordkeeping requirements
- Pages
- 16
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