{"id":172591,"date":"2017-10-04T13:19:58","date_gmt":"2017-10-04T17:19:58","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.liveaction.org\/news\/?p=172591"},"modified":"2017-10-04T18:13:57","modified_gmt":"2017-10-04T22:13:57","slug":"former-planned-parenthood-staffers-explain-medicaid-fraud-committed","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/archive.liveaction.org\/news\/former-planned-parenthood-staffers-explain-medicaid-fraud-committed\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Planned Parenthood staffers explain how Medicaid fraud is being committed"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In 2015, seven former Planned Parenthood<\/a> (PPFA) employees informed the House Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations that Planned Parenthood should be investigated for a number of potentially criminal and fraudulent acts. These former employees told Committee members in a formal letter<\/a> that because Planned Parenthood receives half a billion in taxpayer funding annually, Planned Parenthood should “[…] merit close Government attention as to whether or not these funds are being spent appropriately.”<\/p>\n

The former Planned Parenthood staffers’ letter noted, “we are of one mind that the extent of theses problems with the organization is not fully understood by the American people….” They\u00a0added<\/a> that they “could personally attest” that Planned Parenthood has “operated as a law unto itself, gladly accepting tens of millions of dollars of taxpayer support while using the rubric of ‘reproductive rights’ to claim exemption from the normal standards of accountability that every other recipient of public funds is expected to meet.”<\/p>\n

In recent years, additional former Planned Parenthood staffers have come forward to accuse the abortion corporation of fraudulently overbilling Medicaid,<\/a>\u00a0milking American taxpayers for millions of dollars.<\/p>\n

READ: Half of WI Planned Parenthood’s Medicaid payments were fraud, auditors say<\/a><\/strong><\/em><\/span><\/p>\n

Karen Reynolds<\/strong><\/p>\n

In August 2013, the whistleblower case of\u00a0Karen Reynolds<\/a>,\u00a0a former employee of Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast, resulted in the Houston-based Planned Parenthood affiliate paying $4.3 million to resolve civil allegations made by Reynolds under the False Claims Act in the Eastern District of Texas.\u00a0According to a Department of Justice<\/a> release:<\/p>\n

The government alleged that between 2003 and 2009, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast billed and was paid by government programs, Texas Medicaid, Title XX, and the Women\u2019s Health Program, for certain items and services related to birth control counseling, STD testing and contraceptives when such items and services were either not medically necessary, not medically indicated or not actually provided.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

According to a 2017 report called “Profit No Matter What<\/a>,” published by Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) and the Charlotte Lozier Institute (CLI), Planned Parenthood\u2019s facilities were required \u201cto constantly increase their \u2018pay per visit\u2019 goals which were the bills charged to Medicaid for every patient visit.\u201d<\/p>\n

A recent interview with former Planned Parenthood manager, Sue Thayer, indicated that Planned Parenthood also had abortion<\/a> quotas:<\/p>\n