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From WND.  I saw this article last week but it took me a while to get it posted.  This time it appears they have been double-billing and inflating the prices for some of their, umm, "services." I am pretty stunned that this is coming from the 9th Circuit Court.  'Bout time they got their feel held to the coals.

The U.S. Court of Appeals for the Ninth Circuit in San Francisco has stopped Planned Parenthood of California's attempt at silencing a whistleblower who alleges the abortion provider has billed taxpayers $180 million in fraudulent birth-control charges.

Victor Gonzalez, the former chief financial officer of Planned Parenthood's Los Angeles branch, exposed though a federal lawsuit California clinics purchasing birth-control pills at discount prices, then billing both self-pay clients and federally funded state programs inflated prices.

Through its dozens of affiliated "health centers" over several years, Gonzalez estimates, Planned Parenthood had profited over $180 million from overbilling.

Planned Parenthood, however, had won a dismissal of the fraud case in district court by arguing that a state audit had also found the overbilling, and, therefore, Gonzalez didn't really qualify as a whistleblower.

And since the state opted not to take punitive action following the revelation of wrongdoing, it may have appeared Planned Parenthood had gotten away with decades of profiting off overbilling taxpayers.

But the unanimous decision by a three-judge panel of the Ninth Circuit's court of appeals this week has brought the scandal back to light.

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