Planned Parenthood must go to trial over a $1.8 billion lawsuit by Texas accusing the corporation of defrauding the state’s Medicaid health insurance program, a federal judge has determined.
U.S. District Judge Matthew Kacsmaryk in Amarillo, a Trump appointee, determined last month that the case would go to trial in April. The question at the center of the case is whether Planned Parenthood committed fraud by obtaining state funding and failing to repay after the state terminated the organization from its Medicaid program.
While both Planned Parenthood and Texas had hoped for a ruling without having to go to trial, the judge did not issue a ruling in the case.
Kacsmaryk is the same judge who, in April, suspended the U.S. Food and Drug Administration’s 2000 approval of the abortion pill drug mifepristone.
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