Planned Parenthood and Financial Fraud
by Rachel MacNair
The documents below are pulled from the website Problems at Planned Parenthood, which specializes in offering a facts-only approach with voluminous documentation.
Los Angeles, California
Gonzalez Court Complaint
Full court document on this page.
Excerpt:
Plaintiff/Relator . . . was employed as the Vice President of Finance & Administration with Planned Parenthood of Los Angeles (PPLA) between December 9, 2002 and March 9, 2004 . . .
In the months preceding the termination of Mr. Gonzalez’s employment with the defendants, he raised various serious financial concerns directly related to conduct violative of Federal and State statutory schemes by the defendants. These concerns about the illegal accounting, billing, and donations practices of Planned Parenthood were conveyed . . . to various Planned Parenthood personnel . . . the response of the defendants was to terminate Relator’s employment.
The defendants had a practice of marking up medications (oral contraceptives, nuvaRing, etc.) bought under the “PHS 340B” discount program. The effect of this was the defendants overcharging the Federal Government, and self-pay patients . . . The result of this assessment report for PPLA revealed approximately $2,144,313.17 in overbilling . . . for only one year . . .
Since 1997 the Planned Parenthood affiliates of California have bought drugs at discount prices and rather than selling the drugs to their indigent clientele at the required Acquisition Cost, they illegally marked-up the drugs and billed them to both clients and government sometimes at greater than 12 times the acquisition cost. The estimated illegal billing over six years, beginning in 1999, exceeds $180,000,00.00. This conservative figure only takes into account the illegal and unscrupulous billing practices of Defendants within the state of California.
Texas and Louisiana
Court Settlement, $4.3 million
Planned Parenthood Pays $4.3 Million To Settle Allegations Of Unnecessary Medical Care
Department of Justice
Office of Public Affairs
Press release, Friday, August 16, 2013
Houston-based Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast has paid $4.3 million to resolve civil allegations under the False Claims Act in the Eastern District of Texas, announced U.S. Attorney John M. Bales.
The government alleges that between 2003 and 2009, Planned Parenthood Gulf Coast billed and was paid by government programs, Texas Medicaid, Title XX, and the Women’s Health Program, for certain items and services related to birth control counseling, STD testing and contraceptives when such items and services were either not medically necessary, not medically indicated or not actually provided. Title XX is funded by the federal government while Texas Medicaid and the Women’s Health Program are funded jointly by the federal government and the State of Texas.
North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia
Court Settlement, $1.5 million
Office of Inspector General | Government Oversight | U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (hhs.gov):
After it self-disclosed conduct to OIG, Planned Parenthood Health System, Inc. (Planned Parenthood), incorporated in North Carolina, agreed to pay $1,572,752.80 for potentially violating the Civil Monetary Penalties Law. Planned Parenthood submitted claims to Medicaid programs in North Carolina, South Carolina, Virginia and West Virginia that included the following billing errors: (1) services billed under a provider number different than the medical professional who provided the service and (2) billed for services of non-physician practitioners who were not properly enrolled in their state Medicaid program.
NY Hudson Peconic – Employee Complaint
In this court complaint, Black primarily alleges that she was fired because of complaining about working overtime without overtime pay. But this paragraph is included:
- In addition to raising concerns about non-payment of overtime hours, in or about February 2018, Black advised Bentsi-Addison that treatment services that had not been provided were being written into patient charges and billed to Medicaid . . .
Employee Reviews
For a fuller list of reviews on problems with financial ethics, see Reviews Report-Financial Ethics 06.12.26.pdf
Indeed review:
Indeed review:
Glassdoor review: 
Conclusion
This is all about money, not directly about killing, and fraud is certainly less of a crime than killing is. So why does it matter to consistent-lifers?
Fraud is done from greed, and greed is one of the many connections between all the kinds of killing.
Money supports the killing, and having more money means a killing institution – any killing institution – is able to practice more killing.
The kind of money-grubbing that leads to massive fraud when done by heartless large corporations, including Planned Parenthood, shows they’re in it for the money and belies their claims of compassion.
Discussions over whether or not the government should be providing taxpayer dollars to Planned Parenthood would be better informed with knowing this, since many people who are rightly concerned that medical care for the poor be well funded are against fraud. They regard the practice of fraud as a reason to avoid giving funds to those committing it.
It’s not just the taxpayers – the people in poverty for whom Medicaid money is designated are sometimes overcharged and are always being robbed. The people who can least afford to have their healthcare interfered with are the ones most suffering the consequences of the fraud.
For consistent-lifers, this point is one of special angst: Medicaid money is going down as war costs go up. The idea that the military budget has been a stunning waste of money when so much is needed for actual human needs is a point we’ve been making for decades. It’s especially acute right now. At a time when the Medicaid budget is being cut, and it’s explicitly stated that such cuts are needed so the military can get more money, it’s an outrage that an organization like Planned Parenthood would essentially make more Medicaid cuts by taking a chunk of Medicaid’s meagre budget out in fraud for their own enrichment.
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For more of our posts on problems at Planned Parenthood, see:
Grievances against Planned Parenthood: Extensive Documentation
Racism and Planned Parenthood: Documentation
Racism and Planned Parenthood: Stories from Employee Lawsuits
Planned Parenthood Staff Revolt
Orange California Planned Parenthood 911 Calls
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