During her statements, Rep. Brenda Lawrence called the hearing «exhausting» and «insulting» and reiterated that Planned
Parenthood receives reimbursement for services to Medicaid patients and explained that if there weren't Medicaid patients going to Planned Parenthood, there would not be reimbursements.
Planned
Parenthood receives reimbursements, just like hospitals and other health care organizations, for providing preventive care.
Not exact matches
As a result, Planned
Parenthood wrongfully
received and retained
reimbursements totalling more than $ 5.7 m.
Planned
Parenthood and its affiliates
received $ 553.7 million in government grants and
reimbursements, according to its 2014 — 2015 financial report.
Seventy - five percent of the federal dollars that Planned
Parenthood receives is due to Medicaid
reimbursement.
The majority of federal funding that Planned
Parenthood health centers
receive are through Medicaid
reimbursements or grants through the federal family planning program, Title X.
Planned
Parenthood health centers
receive Medicaid
reimbursement for contraceptive services, STI testing and treatment, cancer screenings and other care they provide to people enrolled in the program.
Social conservatives have long sought to exclude Planned
Parenthood from public programs and funding streams on ideological grounds, a campaign that kicked into overdrive both in the states and in Congress with the 2015 release of deceptively edited videos attacking the organization.15, 16 At the congressional level, attempts to exclude Planned
Parenthood health centers from
receiving Medicaid
reimbursement came close to succeeding last summer as part of broader efforts to repeal the Affordable Care Act (ACA).
Just like hospitals and other health care providers, Planned
Parenthood health centers in Indiana
receive reimbursements from Medicaid only for specific eligible services.
Supporters have said the videos in question were produced to distort the issue of fetal - tissue donations made by the group for scientific research, and the legitimate
reimbursements Planned
Parenthood receives to cover the costs of those donations.
The public funds that Planned
Parenthood's health centers
receive are mostly
reimbursements for preventive services, which often aren't available anywhere else