PLANNED PARENTHOOD SETTLES MEDICAID FRAUD CASE IN ILLINOIS
by Steven Ertel, LifeNews.com, 9/6/12
The Planned Parenthood abortion business has been found in several states to have engaged in Medicaid fraud by overbilling states for reimbursements for the purchase of birth control. In Illinois, the abortion giant has been forced to give the state back hundreds of thousands of dollars in overcharged cases.
Crain’s Chicago Business has more on the settlement:
Planned Parenthood of Illinois has agreed to pay the state $367,000 to settle a dispute over alleged overbilling of the Medicaid program by the non-profit’s medical director.
Dr. Caroline Hoke, an obstetrician-gynecologist and the organization’s medical director since 2007, had been under threat of termination from the state Medicaid program since 2010, when the inspector general of the Department of Healthcare and Family Services sought to recover allegedly improper payments.
Dr. Hoke was the fourth-highest billing physician in the state Medicaid program in 2009-11, receiving $3.9 million, despite not receiving any payment for much of 2010 and all of 2011, according to a Crain’s analysis of Medicaid reimbursement records.
In the Medicaid case, the agency alleged that Dr. Hoke overbilled the state an estimated $430,380.02, mostly for services that were not documented, according to records in a DHFS administrative proceeding against Dr. Hoke.
The inspector general contested Dr. Hoke’s billings between 2006 and 2007, when she worked at Planned Parenthood of Illinois locations and at Erie Family Health Center. The West Side clinic separately agreed to pay the state $20,000 to settle its portion of the dispute.
Alliance Defending Freedom Senior Counsel Michael J. Norton responded to the settlement in a comment to LifeNews.
When the INSANE are running the ASYLUM In individuals, insanity is rare; but in groups, parties, nations and epochs, it is the rule. -- Friedrich Nietzsche
“How fortunate for those in power that people never think.” Adolph Hitler
AP) WASHINGTON - The U.S. health care system squanders $750 billion a year — roughly 30 cents of every medical dollar — through unneeded care, byzantine paperwork, fraud and other waste, the influential Institute of Medicine said Thursday in a report that ties directly into the presidential campaign.
Don't worry...Obamacare will waste 10x more
To put it in perspective....$750B/year is more than the Pentagon budget
"Approval ratings go up and down for various reasons... An example is the high post 911 support for GWB even though he could be said to be responsible for the event." --- Box A Rox '9/11 Truther'
Melania is a bimbo... she is there to look at, not to listen to. --- Box A Rox and his 'War on Women'
a whole lotta folks show up over and over and over and over again because they confuse medical care with actual love and caring.....kind of like house hoarders....they are medical hoarders....
going to the md over and over again is like a sick relationship.....
folks don't get on 15-20medications just by sitting home....seekers.....seekers....seekers...
whether anyone wants to believe it or not there ARE folks who absolutely LOVE visiting the ER over and over or having multiple MD appointments, or complaining about themselves and 'trying to find out what's wrong'....they are LONELY....
or they are lacking in the brain department for what ever reason(and I'm not saying this in a derogatory way) folks are DIFFERENT in multiple ways and this is one way.....
it's like having your child labeled in school 'special' .... for the rest of their lives they have a 'special diagnosis' take meds and seek MDs for the rest of their lives because they are trained that they HAVE TO.....in all it's 'caring', society has created a sub-group of people right from it's birth that are 'dependent' on the system for their well being as seen fit by society....
...you are a product of your environment, your environment is a product of your priorities, your priorities are a product of you......
The replacement of morality and conscience with law produces a deadly paradox.
STOP BEING GOOD DEMOCRATS---STOP BEING GOOD REPUBLICANS--START BEING GOOD AMERICANS
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