To provide just a snapshot of the 51 known external audits of Planned Parenthood clinics, nearly all found title XIX overpayments for family planning and reproductive health service claims. The overbilling totalled more than $8.5 million, and that is without counting several False Claims Act lawsuits that allege millions more in overbilling. Consider all that our panel has identified, despite having just barely a year--even less by the time we were fully staffed--to conduct the investigation. It is now up to us to build on the work, to hold the government accountable, and to stop these affronts to human dignity.
Marsha Blackburn: “To provide just a snapshot of the 51 known external audits of Planned Parenthood clinics, nearly all found title XIX…”
On the recordDecember 1, 2016
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