Planned Parenthood Filed 25,000 False Claims Totaling $377 Million in Medicaid Fraud, Lawsuit Says

Planned Parenthood kills children and injures women in abortions. But the abortion company also engages in Medicaid fraud, a lawsuit contends. Yesterday, Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Steven H. Aden appeared before the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 9th Circuit on behalf of Jonathan Bloedow. Bloedow is a Washington taxpayer who alleges that Planned Parenthood submitted “repeated false, fraudulent, and/or ineligible claims for reimbursement” to the state’s Department of Social and Health Services. According to the suit, Bloedow discovered through his own research that Planned Parenthood of the Great Northwest filed at least 25,000 false claims with HRSA for reimbursements in excess of the amount allowed for oral contraceptive pills and at least another 25,000 for reimbursements in excess of the amount allowed for “emergency contraceptive” (“Plan B”) pills under the federal government’s 340B drug reimbursement program. Total damages could be as much as $377,134,130. Read more...