{"id":159831,"date":"2017-01-07T13:52:41","date_gmt":"2017-01-07T18:52:41","guid":{"rendered":"\/news\/?p=159831"},"modified":"2017-01-07T13:52:41","modified_gmt":"2017-01-07T18:52:41","slug":"quote-of-day-waste-abuse-potential-fraud-found-abortion-industry-audits","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/quote-of-day-waste-abuse-potential-fraud-found-abortion-industry-audits\/","title":{"rendered":"Quote of the day: &#8216;Waste, abuse, potential fraud&#8217; found in abortion industry audits"},"content":{"rendered":"<div style=\"margin-top: 0px; margin-bottom: 0px;\" class=\"sharethis-inline-share-buttons\" ><\/div><p><em>The 51 Planned Parenthood[s] across 12 states that are known to have been audited comprise about 8\u00a0percent of the organization\u2019s 650 or so clinics operated across America. Yet these relatively few audits alone revealed at least $12.8 million in potentially fraudulent payments made by the organization under the Medicaid program&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>According to these audits, many of the services that were overbilled or improperly submitted under Medicaid were\u00a0related to abortion care, including pre-abortion exams and counseling&#8230;.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>\u201cIn New York alone during one four-year audit period, it appeared that\u00a0hundreds of thousands\u00a0of abortion-related claims were billed unlawfully to Medicaid,\u201d the [Charlotte Lozier Institute] report detailed.<\/em><\/p>\n<p><em>If the percentage of overbilling found in these 61 [state family planning program] audits were applied to the entire Medicaid program as a whole, \u201cit would amount to $42.5 billion in overbilling, and\u00a0<strong>an extra $13.3 billion in waste, abuse, and potential fraud of taxpayer dollars<\/strong>,\u201d Charlotte Lozier calculated.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>~ Brittany M. Hughes, <a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrctv.org\/blog\/new-report-reveals-millions-medicaid-fraud-abortion-industry\">MRC-TV<\/a>, January 6, 2017<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The 51 Planned Parenthood[s] across 12 states that are known to have been audited comprise about 8\u00a0percent of the organization\u2019s 650 or so clinics operated across America. Yet these relatively few audits alone revealed at least $12.8 million in potentially fraudulent payments made by the organization under the Medicaid program&#8230;. 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