DOJ Subpoena Quashed In Gender Affirming Care Dispute Over Possible FCA Violations

( September 11, 2025, 8:49 AM EDT) -- BOSTON — A Massachusetts federal judge denied a motion to seal but granted a motion to quash filed by Boston Children’s Hospital (BCH) regarding a U.S. Department of Justice (DOJ) subpoena seeking information on the hospital’s provision of gender affirming care (GAC), finding that the hospital failed to show “why sealing is required” but that the government failed to “show proper purpose” in its subpoena that was issued the same day as a DOJ civil division memorandum outlining investigations into possible violations of the False Claims Act (FCA) for billing the government for GAC services that are allegedly impermissible....