Texas officials sued the organization last year in federal court for more than $1.8 billion, claiming it committed Medicaid fraud when it filed reimbursements at a time when the state was seeking to expel it from the program.
it was “unthinkable that Planned Parenthood would continue to take advantage of funding knowing they were not entitled to keep it.” Under the federal False Claims Act, which allows fines for every alleged improper payment, the plaintiffs maintain that Planned Parenthood should pay $10 million, in addition to penalty fees for each of the thousands of claims filed for services, totaling around $1.8 billion, a figure that would likely bankrupt the national organization and wipe out Texas clinics.
Among its counterclaims, Planned Parenthood points out that federal and state Medicaid regulations expressly require that states notify a provider of any overpayment.
annually, the clinics are relied upon for contraception care and STI prevention. They also offer gender-affirming hormone therapy, cervical and breast cancer screenings, HPV vaccines, post-menopausal hormone therapy, PrEP prescriptions and rapid HIV tests.Federally Qualified Health Centers and the dwindling number of reproductive health clinics in the wake of the U.S. Supreme Court’s ruling inwhich overturned abortion rights.
“The demand is huge,” said Dr. Amna Dermish, chief medical officer of Planned Parenthood of Greater Texas. “If we’re gone, who steps into that space? The capacity is not there. We have a syphilis epidemic. We have little access to prenatal care and a high maternal mortality rate. We have the highest rate of uninsured in the country.
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