A whistleblower lawsuit in opposition to Deliberate Parenthood might put the child killing manufacturing facility on the hook for as a lot as $1.8 billion in fraudulent Medicaid claims.
Doe v. Planned Parenthood was filed in 2021 below the False Claims Act by an nameless whistleblower. The lawsuit accuses Deliberate Parenthood of continuous to invoice Medicaid for companies in Texas and Louisiana after each states revoked the abortion large’s eligibility in 2015, and whereas their supplier standing was below overview.
The 2 states revoked the group’s Medicaid eligibility after they have been exposed for selling fetal tissue and organs. Louisiana and Texas rapidly moved to revoke the group’s Medicaid eligibility, though courtroom orders delayed the revocation.
Through the delay, the group continued to make Medicaid reimbursement claims. In 2020, the U.S. fifth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals dominated in favor of the states.
“Because the courts debated Deliberate Parenthood’s eligibility, the group continued to make Medicaid reimbursement claims regardless of the unsure standing till 2020, when the U.S. fifth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals dominated in favor of the states,” the lawsuit alleges.
Designed to guard taxpayer {dollars} from fraudulent actors, the False Claims Act requires that “any one that knowingly submits, or causes to submit, false claims to the federal government is chargeable for 3 times the federal government’s damages plus a penalty that’s linked to inflation,” in line with the U.S. Division of Justice.
The U.S. fifth Circuit Courtroom of Appeals heard oral arguments Thursday in Doe v. Deliberate Parenthood, specializing in whether or not the pro-abortion group’s nationwide workplace may very well be held chargeable for advising associates in Texas and Louisiana to maintain billing Medicaid through the litigation.
In an op-ed for The Hill, pro-life chief and authorized professional Jennie Bradley Lichter referred to as the case “an important case you’ve by no means heard of” and an “existential menace” to Deliberate Parenthood.
Deliberate Parenthood’s entry to tax {dollars} has additionally been restricted by the Supreme Courtroom ruling in Medina v. Planned Parenthood South Atlantic, which upheld states’ authority to resolve whether or not abortion suppliers qualify for Medicaid reimbursements.
In opposition to this backdrop, the under-the-radar case of U.S. ex rel. Doe v. Deliberate Parenthood represents an existential menace to Deliberate Parenthood.
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Now, Deliberate Parenthood may very well be on the hook for treble damages, civil penalties, curiosity and authorized charges, pushing its whole potential legal responsibility within the pending case past $1.8 billion — a monetary disaster for the abortion large that would hasten its finish.
