Posted on 12/15/2014 4:30:59 PM PST by Morgana
Jennifer Waloway, a nurse practitioner who oversees six family planning clinics in northeastern Wisconsin, was opening the mail in August when she came upon a letter from the state.
It asked NEWCAP Community Health Services, which runs the clinics, to please submit a check payable to the State of Wisconsin. The amount: $1,169,837.10.
"I was a little in shock," Waloway said.
The letter from the Office of the Inspector General at the Department of Health Services said its audit showed that NEWCAP incorrectly had billed — and been paid — by the Medicaid and BadgerCare Plus programs for prescription drugs and for some services in 2010 and 2011. The requested repayment was just slightly less than the clinics' estimated revenue of $1.2 million for all of this year.
Family Planning Health Services, which operates 11 clinics in north-central Wisconsin, received a similar letter later that month. It was asked to send a check for $2,324,750.73.
The organization, based in Wausau, has annual revenue of about $3.4 million and operates at a slight loss.
NEWCAP and Family Planning Health Services, as well as other organizations that provide reproductive health services in the state, contend they were paid for contraceptives and other prescription drugs at a rate agreed upon and set by the Department of Health Services in 2009.
"We've been following the instructions we have been given, and we've been following them for five years," said Molly Fuller, president and chief executive of Family Planning Health Services.
All of the family planning clinics, including those run by Planned Parenthood of Wisconsin, are paid the same rate by the state.
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Ok...says you. Fine. Now prove you haven't been over billing. The auditor says you have been over billing, which if I recall is fraud, and wire fraud if you billed electronically, and mail fraud if you billed by mail with madatory 1 year in prison and a $10,000 fine for EACH occurrence.
The same words of the typical taxpayer. We’ve been following the instructions we have been given, and we have been following them for five years.
I love it when the liberal tactics are used against them...
obama promised to bankrupt coal...
Sure....I see turnabout as fair play.
let them prove they aren’t committing fraud....the Wisc dpet of taxation and finance should freeze their assets, and bank accounts until they can prove they are not committing fraud.
Thats, how they treat us peons
Where’s that photo of the protester demanding more government and then getting at the end of a police line?
Wisconsin family planning clinic accused of overcharging by state. State requests repayment of more than $1,000,000.
FReep Mail me if you want on, or off, this Wisconsin interest ping list.
Yes, they're "at a loss" to explain where all that money goes. (salaries and benefits)
Wow. Just, WOW!
Governor Walker has unleashed The Hounds of Hell against these baby killers!
Never in a million years did I think any of My Tax Dollars would or could be recouped for the murder of innocents!
Wow. Just, WOW!!!
Love. My. Gov. More every day, it seems! *HEART*
Meant to ping you to Post #9, too! :)
This is going to be something watching jsonline SPIN over-charging Taxpayers for killing babies!
Oh, they’ll try. This is just the first shot across the bow!
My name is Yon Yonsin
I live in Wisconsin.
I work in a lumbermill there.
I'd like to see that as a campaign slogan! It would never happen, but we can hold these truths in our hearts!
How many years have you been waiting to use that one? LOL!
About 25 years!
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