Planned Parenthood Is Immune From Whistleblower’s Fraud Suit (1)

Planned Parenthood Federation of America Inc. is shielded from a whistleblower suit alleging that the organization defrauded Medicaid by failing to reimburse payments for services in states that had disqualified the organization, the Fifth Circuit said Wednesday.

Planned Parenthood successfully argued that it has attorney immunity from the False Claims Act suit because the alleged misconduct occurred in the organization’s litigation and law department.

A whistleblower, referred to as “Alex Doe,"conducted an undercover investigation to determine whether Planned Parenthood and its affiliates were providing fetal tissue to researchers and tissue-procurement companies. Doe recorded conversations with Planned Parenthood affiliate staff.

Doe’s ...