Monday, March 19, 2012

Is Planned Parenthood Cheating the Government

The $100 million a year that Planned Parenthood gets from the American taxpayers isn't enough? And so they're defrauding the government for yet more dough?

That's the claim of a Planned Parenthood employee of ten years down in Texas. Here's the introduction to the story from the Lufkin News.

Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast is a defendant in a federal lawsuit after a former Lufkin clinic employee alleged a multi-million-dollar billing scheme.

The complaint names Karen Reynolds as the whistle-blower in the allegations brought against her former employer of 10 years.

The updated complaint, filed in October 2011, alleges that while Reynolds was employed as a health center assistant, she was instructed by the organization to maximize billing revenue when the government was fitting the bill through Medicaid and the Women’s Health Program.

She claims this was the procedure in all 12 Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast locations across Texas and Louisiana.

The suit alleges that, in addition to falsifying patient records, billing the government for unwarranted services and services not covered by Medicaid, Planned Parenthood tacked on services patient did not receive...