Planned Parenthood Owes Texas, Louisiana Repayments, Court Says

A whistleblower suit alleging Planned Parenthood committed Medicaid fraud can proceed because the organization held onto state funds after the Fifth Circuit allowed Texas to cut them off, a federal judge said in an unsealed opinion.

There’s “no question” Planned Parenthood affiliates “had an obligation to return the Medicaid payments” after the Fifth Circuit vacated an injunction that had barred Texas and Louisiana from halting payments to the group,Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk said. “Those temporary rulings did not grant Affiliate Defendants ‘immunity’ to bill for as many services as they could before the injunctions were vacated without the possibility of ...