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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