Medicaid funding is resuming for Planned Parenthood after being cut off for most of a year
The lapse restores funding for nonabortion care after clinics reported nearly 30 closures and a 25% drop in Medicaid visits.
- On Sunday, Planned Parenthood and two smaller regional abortion providers resumed billing Medicaid for non-abortion services after being cut off for most of a year.
- The defunding, mandated in President Donald Trump's tax and policy law last year, caused the closure of nearly 30 of roughly 600 clinics nationwide.
- Maine Family Planning closed three clinics serving about 1,000 patients, while affiliates dispensed about 25% fewer birth control packs and conducted about 20% fewer breast cancer exams over the year.
- Though billing has resumed, Michelle Quesada, vice president of communications for the Planned Parenthood affiliate in Florida, said closed clinics are not expected to reopen amid ongoing uncertainty.
- Anti-Abortion groups are pushing Congress to adopt new defunding policies, with Kelsey Pritchard, a spokesperson for Susan B. Anthony Pro-Life America, saying they should 'do everything in their power to do it again.
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Planned Parenthood and two smaller regional abortion providers are resuming billing Medicaid for services other than abortion after being cut off for most of a year.The defunding, which was mandated in President Donald Trump's big tax and policy law last year, has been blamed in the closure of multiple clinics as well as a reduction in the number of Planned Parenthood patients being screened for breast cancer or tested for sexually transmitted i…
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