Another Planned Parenthood was charged and this one fined for overbilling Medicaid on abortion. What else is new? From the story at LifeNews.com
Planned Parenthood tries to project a professional, ethical image, but they can't stop things like this from popping up and it seems that every month another video surfaces with a Planned Parenthood employee telling a young woman in stings who is pretending to be a teen pregnant by an older man, how to help her sexual predator boyfriend keep from getting caught by the law. Here's the story on overbilling from LifeNews.com
Spokane, WA (LifeNews.com) -- The Planned Parenthood abortion business in
Spokane, Washington has been hit with a $700,000 fine from the state health
department. The result of an audit by state officials shows it was routinely
overbilling Medicaid for abortions as well as contraception and family planning
services.
According to
the audit, state health officials found Planned Parenthood of Spokane was
"unbundling" abortion claims and falsely billing for doctor visits when
customers were picking up prescriptions.
Mary Emanuel
and Jonathan B, who run the web site Abortion in Washington (AIW), obtained
copies of the audit documents from the Department of Social and Health
Services.
They say they
show Planned Parenthood has been ordered to reimburse the state $630,000 plus
interest for the overpayments.
"The audit did
not get into the question of whether the overbilling was part of a systematic
fraud scheme, but it also was clear that if this practice continued PPS would
lose its Medicaid billing privileges," they write.
AIW says the
audit found five categories of overbilling.
One involved
"unbundling" post-abortion drugs and billing them to Medicaid as family
planning, which is prohibited. The practice appears at odds with longstanding
Planned Parenthood claims that family planning money doesn't pay for abortions
or abortion-related services.
Other cases
included billings for pregnancy tests done on women who never said they thought
they were pregnant and without any indication the tests were medically
necessary. Read more at LifeNews.com.
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