Does medicaid cover circumcisions?

no amount of compensation can cover the baby for the pain he will suffer from this type of badly administered surgery where the attached skin covering the penis tip is ripped off and cut away without adequate pain relief as he is too small a patient to tolerate anesthetics so please turn away from this now .thanks for reading this

I'm pretty sure it doesn't cover it in Utah. It's not a necessary procedure so that's why a lot of insurances don't cover it, because it's not even recommended any more. Maybe you should save the money and not do it. Harriet

I feel that it shouldn't cover this procedure, as circumcision is a mutilation that is unnecessary, unnatural and abnormal. As a victim of infant circumcision, I was tied down, assaulted, sexually molested and mutilated. This caused more than the usual damage, resulting in my inability to reach orgasm in normal sex. Circumcision always damages the penis and destroys 50-75% of sexual sensitivity and more in come cases. Male genital mutilation has adverse effects and complications that doctors don't disclose, and suppress in fact. Doctors and hospitals make money fro it, and many of the doctors are members of the religions that try to circumcise all males; they're biased. Circumcision doesn't prevent disease, doesn't have any health benefits and has caused complications in roughly 10% of cases, requiring additional surgeries to attempt to repair damage from the first one. It is a violation of the basic human right to a complete and intact body. If circumcision were so great, then female circumcision would be routinely practiced--removing the female clitoral hood (which is analagous to the male foreskin) is the same. Not all female circumcisions remove the clitoris. But female circumcision is considered genital mutilation. There isn't any difference between male and female mutilation. Genital mutilation is genital mutilation. Perpetrating this on helpless infants is cruel, sadistic, perverse and barbaric. Why should Medicaid pay for unnecessary and damaging cosmetic surgery that has no benefits? Let your son remain whole, as nature made him, and if he wants his penis mutilated, scarred and deprived of sexual sensitivity when he's of age he can decide for himself. After all, it's his body. Circumcision is the worst hoax ever perpetrated on the male sex. A foreskin is not a birth defect; it is a birthright. ERIC

It doesn't cover it at all. Insurance doesn't cover plastic surgery. There has to be a medical reason to do it. And medicine has proved that there are NO medical benifits from circumcision. It's not healthier, cleaner, it doesn't prevent STD's or infections either. There is no reason to do it, therefore insurance doesn't cover it. I would reccomend doing some research on circumcision. There is no reason to do it and you should know what your son is missing out on. http://www.circumstitions.com/Functions.html also circumcision reduces sensitivity. It makes sex less enjoyable. I know that is fact because I am restoring my foreskin and have felt both sides. Also it's your son's body not yours. he should decide if he wants this for himself. And no it's not more painful as an adult. It's more painful as a child, as an adult it's no biggie at all.I know guys that have gotten it done later and they say it doesn't hurt at all like you think it would. Plus most uncut guys love the way they are and wouldn't change it. But there are a ton of cut guys that wish they weren't. Let him decide later on. -Connor

It's not covered. Have you considered not circumcising? I would recommend NOT circumcising your son. The benefits do not outweigh the risks. One analysis found that for every 9 boys who might be spared a UTI by circumcision, another 12 boys at the least (the upper estimate was 40 boys) will experience severe complications from the circumcision. Thats great if your boy is one of the 9, but horrible if he's one of the 12. UTIs can be treated by antibiotics quite effectively. Botched circumcisions are much more difficult to fix. Its also worth noting that 99% of intact boys will never get an infection, compared to 99.9% of cut boys. That means you would have to cut 100 boys to save just one of them from infection. Thats 99 boys cut for no reason at all. Out of every 1000 boys who are cut, one will contract a UTI anyway. Only 50% of boys nationwide are circumcised. Girls of your son's generation will likely have an entirely different view of circumcision as girls from yours. Just because you think intact is "gross" and "unsanitary" does not mean the women of your son's generation will. after all, think of all the differences between you and your parents. Did you know that when your grandparents were young, circumcision was very uncommon? Next, it is VERY painful to an infant. Most doctors still don't use any anesthesia, those that do rarely offer adequate anesthesia because the only stuff that works is not safe enough to use in infants for such a "minor" procedure. Further, some of the pain meds offered to infants aren't even recommended for use on babies! Some doctors argue that it has been done "for thousands of years" without anesthetic- what they neglect to tell you is that a medical circumcision can take over 15 minutes to complete. A Jewish ritual circumcision, by contrast, takes under 60 seconds to complete (and the baby is given wine) Here is some info on the pain..... http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/ http://www.circumcision.org/response.htm http://www.cirp.org/library/pain/taddio2... (note in this one that even infants offered pain meds for the procedure showed signs of post traumatic stress!) You should also know that studies have shown that the most sensitive parts of the male anatomy of ON the foreskin- NOT the head of the penis. By cutting off the foreskin, you remove a mans most erogenous genital tissue. Here is a study about that.... (note that other studies found no difference, but they neglected to test the sensitivity of the foreskin- they only tested the glans penis of intact and cut men and didn't pay any attention to the foreskin at all) http://www.nocirc.org/touch-test/touchte... You should know that infant boys are EASIER to care for when they are intact. The foreskin does not retract until late childhood or even puberty, so you do nothing special, just wipe the outside of his penis clean and leave it alone. Furthermore, to prevent painful and bleeding erections later in life, doctors are now commonly leaving more skin behind- in a cut boy this means you may have to push the left over skin back at every diaper change and clean beneath it to prevent it from adhering or infecting. The very thing that mother's think they avoid by circumcising! In short- Intact = wipe like a finger, NEVER retract Cut= vaseline, clean thoroughly, push back remaining skin to prevent adhesions etc (the last step perhaps for several months or years) Here is an excellent tutorial on the basics of intact care and circumcision.... http://www.lactivistintactivist.com/?pag... Another factor in your decision is that circumcised boys experience a 12% increase in their risk of MRSA infection. MRSA is commonly picked up in hospitals (where circumcision is performed in non-sterile conditions) and has been known to kill adults. I wouldn't want to deal with it in an infant. 12% is a BIG risk, the risk of a boy "needing" a circ later in life is WELL below that- under 1%. http://www.nocirc.org/publish/12-Answers... The so called "benefits" of circumcision are generally trumped up. A big one now is that it "prevents" AIDS. All the studies showing "benefits" like this have been poorly designed and inconclusive. Also, for every study that finds a "benefit" there are more studies that find no benefit. http://www.icgi.org/ It is rather eye-opening to see how circumcision first became popular in the US to begin with. It was virtually unknown in this country until the 20th century. This slide show takes you through the rise of circumcision.... http://youtube.com/watch?v=f4unKTMpBGA Finally, you should watch a video or two of the procedure so you are fully informed of what your infant will go through. I will warn you that these are graphic. If you can't handle watching them as an adult, why would you expect your infant son to endure them? Gomco Clamp- http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=... Plastibell- http://newborns.stanford.edu/Plastibell....

It should not matter, as no one should be getting themselves or anyone else circumcised.

Medicaid is run on a state by state basis. Some states do, some don't. That's why you are reading different things. It depends on your state.