Report to Congressional committee details Planned Parenthood’s fraud, waste, and abuse
One in five Planned Parenthood affiliates has been identified in state and federal audits as perpetrating waste, abuse, and potential fraud.
Those details and more emerged today in a press conference held by the Susan B. Anthony List and Alliance Defense Fund as they announced the contents of a report they were submitting to Congressman Cliff Stearns, Chairman of the Energy and Commerce Committee Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations, which is currently conducting an investigation of Planned Parenthood.
The report lists what is publicly known about overbilling and potential fraud on the part of Planned Parenthood affiliates, under the oversight of Planned Parenthood Federation of America.
Planned Parenthood affiliates in California, New York, Texas, and Washington have been found through state audits to have committed a variety of abuses, including extensive overbilling and illegal billing for abortion-related procedures to the tune of $8 million.
In addition, federal audits of family planning programs, of which PP gets the lion share, have identified between $88-99 million in overbilling between 1995-2009, according to the Inspector General’s Office at the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services. The SBA/ADF states two of those audits “specifically identified Planned Parenthood, and only Planned Parenthood,” as the source.
The report also includes information about two federal whistleblower lawsuits filed by two former Planned Parenthood employees in California and Texas alleging massive Medicaid fraud. The alleged fraud includes overbilling for prescription drugs, improperly claiming services for family planning that weren’t, and billing for unnecessary services.
Planned Parenthood and its supporters have claimed the congressional investigation is politically motivated.
But the audits and lawsuits tell a different story.
Read the detailed report here and the summary here.
Jill Stanek is a nurse turned speaker, columnist and blogger, a national figure in the effort to protect both preborn and postborn innocent human life.
The leftists and proaborts would not care if there were billions in fraud perpetrated by PP. The fraud will not stop (or at least slow down) until someone ends up in jail.
Jill,
In light of Komen’s recalibrated criteria regarding witholding funds from organizations undergoing criminal (as opposed to political) investigation…
Can we get someone from Congress to answer me this:
When PP testifies on the Hill about the fraud, etc., are they not advised by the Congressmen/Congresswomen that their answers may be used against them regarding future criminal indictment?
That would make the proceedings on the Hill a criminal investigation and automatically trigger the withholding of Komen’s funds under their new and nuanced funding criteria.
Jerry, you are right. Fraud and abuse won’t matter. Because at all costs (and it costs everything), THE KILLING MUST, MUST CONTINUE.
Could someone end up in jail? Please? $87 million plus in deliberate fraud is definitely worth some jail time.
This is only going to make things worse for Komen, since they gave in to Planned Parenthood after accepting all those donations.
Where are the Medicaid whistleblowers? Looks like a nice payday coming.
Medicaid could use having their own whistled blowed, too. I hope they’re next. ^_^
When PP testifies on the Hill about the fraud, etc., are they not advised by the Congressmen/Congresswomen that their answers may be used against them regarding future criminal indictment?
That would make the proceedings on the Hill a criminal investigation and automatically trigger the withholding of Komen’s funds under their new and nuanced funding criteria.
I’m not in Congress, but everyone who has taken high school civics knows that Congress is a legislative body without the power to conduct criminal investigations. Acknowledging the existence of the Fifth Amendment doesn’t turn a dog-and-pony show into a grand jury.