Amid concerns that the taxpayer-funded abortion giant was illegally selling baby body parts for profit, Louisiana terminated its Medicaid provider agreement with Planned Parenthood of Gulf Coast in 2015. Rather than follow the appeals court procedure that Congress mandates, the Planned Parenthood affiliate and three unidentified supporters filed suit in federal court.
In a brief filed Thursday on behalf of Louisiana Family Forum and 26 other family policy councils, Alliance Defending Freedom (ADF) explains that Medicaid providers – Planned Parenthood or otherwise – can't use the courts to challenge the removal of those agreements in an attempt to evade the established administrative appeals process that federal law requires.
Congress has made it very clear that Planned Parenthood has to follow the administrative process to challenge its disqualification from Medicaid – just like everyone else," says ADF legal counsel Elissa Graves.
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