December 22, 2022 California Health & Wellness (CHS), a health insurance plan serving recipients of Medi-Cal, recently announced that effective January 1, coverage for newborn circumcisions would be extended from 28 days to 30 days after birth. [1] Intact America reacted by declaring that Medi-Cal was extending newborn circumcision coverage to 30 days. [2] Medi-Cal is the name of the Medicaid program that serves low income individuals in the Golden State. Medi-Cal eliminated

November 8, 2022 As we reported last month, on October 13 the Massachusetts Supreme Judicial Court rejected an appeal to consider intactivist Ronald Goldman's lawsuit to stop MassHealth from using Medicaid funds to cover neonatal circumcisions. At the time we suggested that the legal defeat offered lead counsel Peter Adler the opportunity to reassess the validity of his legal theories about circumcision. It turns out we were overly optimistic; Adler hasn't learned a thing. La

Published: July 22, 2022 Update: October 14, 2022 In July 2020 psychologist Ronald Goldman, joined by more than two dozen fellow Massachusetts taxpayers, filed a lawsuit against MassHealth to force the state agency to stop using Medicaid funds for elective infant circumcisions. [1] Goldman is executive director of the anti-circumcision organization Circumcision Resource Center and author of a 1998 book, Circumcision: The Hidden Trauma. The plaintiffs argued that Medicaid fund