In a new ad running on Google, the Gerard Health Foundation accuses Planned Parenthood of overbilling the federal government by millions of dollars. The campaign launched after a call for an audit of the abortion giant went unheeded.
Planned Parenthood affiliates in California were sued in 2005 after allegedly overcharging the state and federal governments by $180 million for birth-control pills. A former executive filed the lawsuit, which was made public this year.
The nation's largest abortion business is accused of purchasing contraceptives and other medicines at discounted rates and then billing the state 12 or more times their purchase rate.
“Instead of billing the federal government for the invoice cost of various birth-control devices and pills, they billed at a thing called 'usual and customary,' " said Raymond Ruddy with Gerard Health Foundation, who is behind the ad.
The ad tells vendors doing business with the federal government they should get the same "deal" as Planned Parenthood.
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