CNA\/EWTN News<\/a>).- Audits showing Planned Parenthood\u2019s alleged misuse of federal funds are further proof that the organization should be barred from receiving federal money, pro-life advocates say.<\/p>\n\u201cThe extent of waste and abuse in the nation\u2019s family planning programs, and specifically in those operated by Planned Parenthood, is beyond disturbing,\u201d Charlotte Lozier Institute president Chuck Donovan stated upon the release of a joint report by the institute and the legal group Alliance Defending Freedom on abortion clinics overbilling taxpayer-funded health programs.<\/p>\n
\u201cCongress should do what the House of Representatives has twice voted to do: end taxpayer funding to Planned Parenthood, the nation\u2019s most profitable abortionist, once and for all,\u201d Alliance Defending Freedom senior counsel Steven H. Aden stated.<\/p>\n
The report, titled \u201cProfit. No Matter What,\u201d is based on dozens of external audits and reviews of Planned Parenthood affiliates. It was authored by Catherine Glenn Foster, a senior fellow in legal policy at the Charlotte Lozier Institute, the research arm of the pro-life group Susan B. Anthony List.<\/p>\n
It was released on Wednesday, the same day that the House Select Investigative Panel on Infant Lives released its over 400-page final report on abuses and possible lawbreaking by abortion clinics, universities, and tissue procurement companies in the fetal tissue trade.<\/p>\n
Planned Parenthood has a spotty track record, Donovan said, pointing to previous reports on the organization\u2019s alleged abuses.<\/p>\n
\u201cThis report joins earlier findings on issues of human trafficking, failure to report statutory rape, alleged violations of fetal organ trafficking laws, and other profound concerns that reinforce the need for Congress to reallocate funds to agencies that respect human life and put women first,\u201d Donovan said of Wednesday\u2019s report. \u00a0<\/p>\n
The CLI-ADF report is the fifth annual report by the groups on audits of taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood and other \u201cfamily planning\u201d clinics. The latest report includes new federal and state audits of family programs and clinics.<\/p>\n
The \u201cresearch strongly suggests that Planned Parenthood and its affiliates are engaged in a pattern of practices designed to maximize their bottom-line revenues through billings to complex, well-funded federal and state programs that are understaffed and rely on the integrity of the provider for program compliance,\u201d the report noted.<\/p>\n
Overall, \u201cnearly all\u201d of 51 audits of Planned Parenthood affiliates in 12 states showed that affiliates were overbilling Medicaid and other publicly-funded health programs, costing taxpayers millions. \u201cTitle XIX-Medicaid overpayments\u201d at these affiliates amounted to over $8.5 million.<\/p>\n
And the waste and fraud may be much greater than that amount, the report claimed:<\/p>\n
\u201cThe weight of evidence indicates that waste by Planned Parenthood affiliates may be widespread, and suggests that such policies may be the result of, at a minimum, a policy of benign neglect over billing practices organization-wide by Planned Parenthood Federation of America\u2019s headquarters in New York City.\u201d<\/p>\n
Abortion clinics in some cases will have abortion-related services \u2013 or abortions themselves \u2013 paid for by Medicaid or state family planning programs. The Hyde Amendment prohibits federal Medicaid dollars from funding abortions, except in cases of rape, incest, or when the life of the mother is at stake.<\/p>\n
Clinics will do this by utilizing \u201cfragmentation\u201d or \u201cunbundling\u201d billing to have abortion-related services like counseling or a pre-abortion examination paid for with public dollars, the report found.<\/p>\n
Even abortions themselves may be billed to Medicaid. \u201cIn New York alone during one four-year audit period, it appeared that hundreds of thousands of abortion-related claims were billed unlawfully to Medicaid,\u201d the report noted.<\/p>\n
One Nebraska audit found a Planned Parenthood clinic spending federal funds on abortion-related expenses, and physician fees for a doctor who only performed abortions. Over $3,500 in taxpayer funds were used for abortion services there.<\/p>\n
Other instances of abuse by clinics included giving prescription drugs to clients without a physician\u2019s authorization, \u201cbilling for services that were not actually rendered,\u201d \u201cduplicate billing,\u201d and \u201cfailing to pay the bills for which an affiliate had already been reimbursed with taxpayer funds.\u201d<\/p>\n
In California alone, one 2004 audit found that Planned Parenthood of San Diego and Riverside Counties had overbilled contraceptive and Plan B products by $5.2 million.<\/p>\n
\u201cThree federal audits specifically identify Planned Parenthood \u2013 and only Planned Parenthood \u2013 as the problem in state family planning program overbilling,\u201d the report noted.<\/p>\n
What should be done about Planned Parenthood?<\/p>\n
The organization must be defunded of taxpayer dollars, CLI and ADF both insisted. Also investigations of the organization should examine allegations of clinics \u201cdouble-dipping\u201d by receiving funds or payments from clients or organizations and still billing Medicaid for those services provided.<\/p>\n
Those allegations were made in a previous ADF report on Planned Parenthood and Susan G. Komen Foundation grants.<\/p>\n
Back in August of 2016, the U.S. Government Accountability Office responded to requests by members of Congress and opened an investigation into Planned Parenthood\u2019s use of taxpayer funds. A previous GAO investigation found that from 2010-12, Planned Parenthood Federation of America and its affiliates received over $1.5 billion in taxpayer dollars from federal and state funds.<\/p>\n
Planned Parenthood is the nation\u2019s largest abortion provider, with over 300,000 abortions performed annually.<\/p>\n
House Speaker Paul Ryan (R-Wisc.) announced Thursday that in budget reconciliation legislation that is under consideration, taxpayer funding of Planned Parenthood would be redirected to community health centers that do not provide abortions.<\/p>\n
President-Elect Donald Trump made the defunding of Planned Parenthood one of his promises to pro-life voters on the campaign trail in 2016.<\/p>\n
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