Medicaid billing allowed to resume for Planned Parenthood after being cut off

Published July 7, 2026 · Category: News

Overview

Defunding, mandated in Trump’s 2025 policy, has been blamed for closure of clinics as well as reduction in screenings for cancer and STDs

Planned Parenthood and two smaller regional abortion providers are resuming billing Medicaid for services other than abortion after being cut off for most of a year.

Details

The defunding, which was mandated in Donald Trump’s big tax and policy in July 2025, has been blamed in the closure of multiple clinics as well as a reduction in the number of Planned Parenthood patients being screened for breast cancer or tested for sexually transmitted infections.

Source

Originally published at www.theguardian.com.

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