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Oklahoma Defunds Planned Parenthood, Medicaid Agency Cancels Its Contracts
lifenews.com ^ | May 5, 2016 | Steven Ertelt

Posted on 05/05/2016 12:44:43 PM PDT by Morgana

The state of Oklahoma is taking steps to divorce itself from the Planned Paethood abortion business after the company was caught selling the body parts of aborted babies. A Medicaid agency is canceling the contracts it has with the abortion company.

Last year, Oklahoma pro-life Gov. Mary Fallin called for defunding Planned Parenthood after a state review discovered that the abortion giant’s state affiliates may be overbilling Medicaid.

Fallin that the Oklahoma Health Care Authority end its contracts with the abortion business’s affiliates that operate in the state. Her call came after a state review of Planned Parenthood found a high rate of billing errors to Medicaid, 20.3 percent in one review and 14.1 percent in another, according to a letter Fallin submitted to the state Health Care Authority Board director, Nico Gomez. In the past two years, the state gave the two Planned Parenthood affiliates more than $300,000 for Medicaid claims, according to Fallin’s office.

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“These results are alarming,” Fallin said in the letter. “These errors result in overbilling to the Oklahoma taxpayer. Research strongly suggests that Planned Parenthood and its Oklahoma and national affiliates regularly, whether intentionally or negligently, engage in a pattern of practices resulting in the overbilling of state Medicaid programs.”

Now, those contracts are ending:

Oklahoma Health Care Authority Chief Executive Officer Nico Gomez said the agency notified Planned Parenthood of Central Oklahoma and Planned Parenthood of Arkansas and Eastern Oklahoma in February of its intent to terminate provider agreements with the two affiliates.

“My decision in February was made based upon what I firmly believe to be the best interests of this agency going forward,” Gomez told The Associated Press in a statement.

The state contracts with the two affiliates will remain in place until June 29, which Gomez said should provide members obtaining services at Planned Parenthood clinics time to make any necessary alternative arrangements.

The intent to terminate the contracts was made “without cause” under the parties’ agreements, which permit either Planned Parenthood or the agency to terminate the contracts, Gomez said.

The Alliance Defending Freedom, which has been involved in several lawsuits alleging that Planned Parenthood affiliates overbilled Medicaid, praised Fallin at the time.

“Governor Fallin is right to recognize that taxpayer money should go to fund local community health centers, not to subsidize a scandal-ridden, billion-dollar abortion business,” said ADF Legal Counsel Kellie Fiedorek. “Oklahomans shouldn’t be forced to give their money to Planned Parenthood, which has a long track record of abusive and potentially fraudulent billing practices, not to mention that it has also been caught in authenticated undercover videos trafficking aborted babies’ body parts and has repeatedly failed to report the sexual abuse of girls. That tax money should be redirected to trusted health care providers.”

Fallin’s letter emphasized that, without Planned Parenthood, Oklahomans will have access to many quality healthcare providers all across the state.

“There are only two Planned Parenthood affiliates in the state operating in about six metropolitan locations in Oklahoma City and Tulsa,” according to the letter. “However, there are more than 120 other metropolitan and rural providers available … all of whom provide a broader spectrum of health care services than Planned Parenthood’s limited metropolitan locations.”

Fallin’s letter also cited evidence of Planned Parenthood’s fraudulent billing practices in other states.

One whistleblower lawsuit involves a former Iowa Planned Parenthood manager who said the abortion business submitted “repeated false, fraudulent, and/or ineligible claims for reimbursements” to Medicaid.

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Alliance Defending Freedom, which is involved in Thayer’s lawsuit, said the case has not reached a final result.

A similar lawsuit alleging fraudulent billing to Medicaid by a Texas Planned Parenthood resulted in a $4.3 million settlement in 2013. In the lawsuit, Karen Reynolds, who worked for the abortion business from 1999 to 2009, submitted company memos and emails to support her charge that the Texas Planned Parenthood had engaged in a system-wide scheme to bilk Medicaid, Title XX, and the Women’s Health Program of tens of millions of dollars over the course of at least a decade.

The expose’ videos catching Planned Parenthood officials selling the body parts of aborted babies have shocked the nation. Here is a list of all twelve:

In the first video: Dr. Deborah Nucatola of Planned Parenthood commented on baby-crushing: “We’ve been very good at getting heart, lung, liver, because we know that, so I’m not gonna crush that part, I’m gonna basically crush below, I’m gonna crush above, and I’m gonna see if I can get it all intact.” In the second video: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Mary Gatter joked, “I want a Lamborghini” as she negotiated the best price for baby parts. In the third video: Holly O’Donnell, a former Stem Express employee who worked inside a Planned Parenthood clinic, detailed first-hand the unspeakable atrocities and how she fainted in horror over handling baby legs. In the fourth video: Planned Parenthood’s Dr. Savita Ginde stated, “We don’t want to do just a flat-fee (per baby) of like, $200. A per-item thing works a little better, just because we can see how much we can get out of it.” She also laughed while looking at a plate of fetal kidneys that were “good to go.” In the fifth video: Melissa Farrell of Planned Parenthood-Gulf Coast in Houston boasted of Planned Parenthood’s skill in obtaining “intact fetal cadavers” and how her “research” department “contributes so much to the bottom line of our organization here, you know we’re one of the largest affiliates, our Research Department is the largest in the United States.” In the sixth video: Holly O’Donnell described technicians taking fetal parts without patient consent: “There were times when they would just take what they wanted. And these mothers don’t know. And there’s no way they would know.” In the seventh and perhaps most disturbing video: Holly O’Donnell described the harvesting, or “procurement,” of organs from a nearly intact late-term fetus aborted at Planned Parenthood Mar Monte’s Alameda clinic in San Jose, CA. “‘You want to see something kind of cool,’” O’Donnell says her supervisor asked her. “And she just taps the heart, and it starts beating. And I’m sitting here and I’m looking at this fetus, and its heart is beating, and I don’t know what to think.” In the eighth video: StemExpress CEO Cate Dyer admits Planned Parenthood sells “a lot of” fully intact aborted babies. The ninth video: catches a Planned Parenthood medical director discussing how the abortion company sells fully intact aborted babies — including one who “just fell out” of the womb. The 10th video: catches the nation’s biggest abortion business selling specific body parts — including the heart, eyes and “gonads” of unborn babies. The video also shows the shocking ways in which Planned Parenthood officials admit that they are breaking federal law by selling aborted baby body parts for profit. Unreleased Videos: Unreleased videos from CMP show Deb Vanderhei of Planned Parenthood caught on tape talking about how Planned Parenthood abortion business affiliates may “want to increase revenue [from selling baby parts] but we can’t stop them…” Another video has a woman talking about the “financial incentives” of selling aborted baby body parts. The 11th video: catches a Texas Planned Parenthood abortionist planning to sell the intact heads of aborted babies for research. Amna Dermish is caught on tape describing an illegal partial-birth abortion procedure to terminate living, late-term unborn babies which she hopes will yield intact fetal heads for brain harvesting. The 12th video in the series shows new footage of Jennefer Russo, medical director at Planned Parenthood in Orange County, California, describing to undercover investigators how her abortion business tries to harvest intact aborted babies’ bodies for a local for-profit biotech company and changes the abortion procedure to do so.


TOPICS: Culture/Society; Government; US: Oklahoma
KEYWORDS: abortion; deathpanels; defundpp; fallin; obamacare; oklahoma; plannedparenthood; prolife; stemexpress; zerocare

1 posted on 05/05/2016 12:44:43 PM PDT by Morgana
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To: Morgana

OK is confusing me. They do this but I read here there was a push to undermine 2nd amendment rights. What gives?


2 posted on 05/05/2016 12:46:00 PM PDT by Resolute Conservative
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To: Resolute Conservative

OK is confusing me. They do this but I read here there was a push to undermine 2nd amendment rights. What gives?

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Would be interested in learning what is giving you concern. As far as I know, they just passed a law that is very close to Constitutional Carry. We already have Concealed Carry.
https://www.nraila.org/gun-laws/state-gun-laws/oklahoma/

Admittedly I have not followed the intimate details of this particular debate.


3 posted on 05/05/2016 12:57:57 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: Morgana

what exactly is the big deal to those who are for abortion but against selling the parts?

Just like any other cadaver is useful to science, why would this be any different?

I know. It’s an insane statement. Because it’s an insane stance.

“kill the kids but dont sell them!!”

i dont get it.

The babies dont get to fill out organ donor cards.

Sick country.


4 posted on 05/05/2016 1:00:50 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: Resolute Conservative

I need to mention that the link I gave you is from 2015. I saw a thread about the new gun law which was recently passed in Oklahoma. I thought I book marked it, but now I can’t find it.

Perhaps someone else might know its whereabouts.


5 posted on 05/05/2016 1:05:38 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: dp0622

Very good point and a distinction without a difference you have made.


6 posted on 05/05/2016 1:06:25 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: Morgana

Bravo Oklahoma, and bravo to Governor Fallin!

Looks to me like the good Governor is one of America’s unsung heros.


7 posted on 05/05/2016 1:13:30 PM PDT by MichaelCorleone (Jesus Christ is not a religion. He's the Truth.)
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To: TEXOKIE

I had a moment that FEW in life will ever get.

Talking about cures from embryonic stem cell research in 2004 with a co worker. He swore if i got sick i would take a cure from the research. I insisted I wouldn’t.

Fast forward a year later to stroke and TBI a year apart.

Would only wish what I’ve been through on obama, hillary and a few others.

Still, You couldn’t have paid me enough, even in ICU, to sign a petition to use babies to cure me.

This life ain’t forever, folks. (not addressed to you)


8 posted on 05/05/2016 1:15:15 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

Yes, “sick country” is right, but OK could yet be the only state that does not vote for Mrs. Bill. Supposedly, she could carry all fifty states.


9 posted on 05/05/2016 1:17:02 PM PDT by Theodore R. (Trump-Santorum 2016)
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To: Morgana

Where’s the federal court calling this “unconstitutional?”


10 posted on 05/05/2016 1:49:56 PM PDT by fwdude
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To: dp0622

Wow. Only just now saw your comment.

It actually has been shown, I think, that the stem cell research is actually much more productive in helping people than the embryonic research.

I hope you are doing better now.


11 posted on 05/07/2016 2:08:29 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: TEXOKIE

It’s gonna be tough until some big progress is made but it is what it is.

but how the @#$@ would i enjoy anything knowing the cure came from a baby?

adult stem cell, that’s fine by me!!!

but scary how i remember saying that after the fact.


12 posted on 05/07/2016 6:55:36 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

Bless your heart. I admire how you are wired, and I wish you well.


13 posted on 05/07/2016 10:03:56 PM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: TEXOKIE

a few of us northerners are wired like southerners or heartlanders :)

our Italian ancestors just didn’t want to move :)

But I love them just the same.

ciao,
Mark
Proud to know you


14 posted on 05/07/2016 10:45:25 PM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

:-D

This is known... WE ARE ALL AMERICANS!

We all have a story, and it is magnificent how we all have been brought here and love the same ideals of true freedom, self determination, independence, and so very often selflessness. THAT is our common wiring.

Hang in there! And God bless those Italian forebears!


15 posted on 05/08/2016 12:10:57 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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To: Morgana

May God Bless Oklahoma.
16 posted on 05/08/2016 12:13:14 AM PDT by SunLakesJeff (All Mass Has Gravity. Gravity, however, is subject to Judicial Review.)
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To: TEXOKIE

Would NEVER let my brave ancestors who traveled an ocean down!!

Trump!!! At whatever cost.

Ive seen jail. After that, obama’s paid goons are a joke.

hey. you guys could use guys like me down the line :)


17 posted on 05/08/2016 12:19:28 AM PDT by dp0622 (The only thing an upper crust conservative hates more than a liberal is a middle class conservative)
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To: dp0622

LOL!
Not sure who you mean by “you guys.” BUT
We need tough-but-moral guys ALL the time in this country! It’s one of our hallmarks!

Brave and worthy ancestors do give us a lot to live up to. I’m fortunate to also have my share to look to as standard bearers. They got us here and they instilled many positive Christian values. It is so important to cling to those values because that is truly all we have. That is why the enemy is working so hard to diminish and erase those values. With out them we are nothing.


18 posted on 05/08/2016 9:55:15 AM PDT by TEXOKIE (We must surrender only to our Holy God and never to the evil that has befallen us.)
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