New York State Medicaid Funds to Planned Parenthood (SFY 1995) The following information regarding New York State Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood affiliates is taken from the April 1995 - March 1996 (State Fiscal Year 1995) statewide Management and Administrative Report System (MARS) Report MR-0-19. This "MARS 19" was obtained from the New York State Dept. of Social Services in the summer of 1996 under the NYS Freedom of Information Law. Subsequent to that request, in the fall of 1996, the NYS Dept. of Health became the custodian of such reports. "MARS 19" data is also available in a county specific format and can be obtained by using the attached form letter addressed to the NYS Dept. of Health. Table 1 Provider Type Category: Clinic - Freestanding Apr'95 - Mar'96 NYS "MARS 19" pages 97-120 Provider Name/Number No. of Claims Total Payment *Margaret Sanger Ctr 00244642 30,215 $5,051,011 Planned Parenthd Westchester 00394752 14,732 $1,641,783 Planned Pthd Hlth Svc N E NY 00473643 10,359 $1,071,020 Planned Prthd Rochester/Genes 00382403 7,953 $891,103 Planned Parenthood of Nassau 00385135 5,545 $764,329 Planned Parenthood Ctr Syracu 00350954 7,224 $654,615 Planned Prthd Orange-Sullivan 00277216 6,203 $550,838 Upper Hudson Planned Parent 00301139 5,143 $547,620 Planned Parenthood Suffolk Co 00473161 4,863 $522,299 Pland Parent Broome-Chenengo 00303291 4,958 $461,819 Planned Parenthood Mohawk Val 00303273 5,231 $407,070 Planned Prthd of Northern NY 00583697 4,329 $389,669 Planned Parenthood of Niag Co 00474960 4,780 $351,396 Planned Prthd Duchess Ulster 00245258 3,523 $349,549 Planned Parenthood So Tier 00362836 3,014 $314,877 Planned Prthd Buffalo Erie 00474906 3,829 $302,214 Planned Parenthood of Tompkin 00362863 2,141 $225,711 Northern Adirondack PP Inc 00583748 2,031 $192,557 Planned Prthd Delaware-Otsego 00468777 721 $49,951 **Fam Planning Svcs Finger Lake 00355371 307 $26,584 Totals ------- --------- 127,101 $14,766,015 Table 2 Provider Type Category: C/THP (Child/Teen Health Program) Apr'95 - Mar'96 NYS "MARS 19" pages 860-926 Provider Name/Number No. of Claims Total Payment Planned Parenthood of Niag Co 00474960 3,535 $248,894 Planned Prthd of Northern NY 00583697 707 $72,384 Planned Pthd Hlth Src N E NY 00473643 701 $67,697 Planned Parenthood Mohawk Val 00303273 939 $60,712 Planned Parenthood Ctr Syracu 00350954 713 $54,123 Planned Prthd Rochester/Genes 00382403 314 $31,270 Planned Prthd Delaware-Otsego 00468777 306 $25,979 *Margaret Sanger Ctr 00244642 87 $12,350 Planned Parenthood of Nassau 00385135 23 $3,171 Northern Adirondack PP Inc 00583748 31 $3,032 Planned Parenthood So Tier 00362836 3 $294 Upper Hudson Planned Parent 00301139 2 $192 Planned Parenthood of Tompkin 00362863 1 -$89 Totals ------ -------- 7362 $580,009 Table 3 Provider Type Category: Prepaid Care Apr'95-Mar'96 NYS "MARS 19" pages 1392-1406 Provider Name/Number No. of Claims Total Payment (TASA = TeenAge Services Act) Planned Prthd Orange Sull TASA 01057056 9,382 $357,941 ***Circle Adol Preg Prog TASA 01062844 1,778 $68,660 CMP Planned Prthd Suff C TASA 01080455 1,478 $60,266 Totals ------ --------- 12,638 $486,847 The combined totals from all 3 tables above are 147,101 claims for $15,832,891. Freedom of Information Law (FOIL) requests to counties throughout New York and other related research has revealed the following information. 1) The above reported amounts were paid by the state Medicaid Management Information System (MMIS) through the Computer Sciences Corporation. 2) Each county is "charged back" a local share of all Medicaid expenditures. One county supplied this writer with a copy of the NEW YORK STATE FISCAL REFERENCE MANUAL FOR LOCAL SOCIAL SERVICES DISTRICTS, (Feb. 1, 1991, Vol. I, Chap. 1, p. 10) which states: "Medical Assistance expenditures, Federally participating, are generally funded at 50 percent Federal, 25 percent State and 25 percent Local. Federal participation pertains to certain groups of persons as described in Department Regulation 360.11 For other Medical Assistance recipients which are not in the Federally participating groups, their medical assistance expenditures would be funded generally at 50 percent State and 50 percent Local. Additionally, medical services for Family Planning paid on behalf of Federally eligible recipients are funded at 90 percent Federal, with the remaining 10 percent being split equally between the State and Local governments." 3) Delaware County Social Services Commissioner William Moon has publicly stated that the County picks up 50 percent of the cost of Medicaid abortions with the State picking up the other 50 percent. (DELAWARE COUNTY TIMES, 3/1/96, p. 1). 4) Part 463 of 18 NYCRR, the New York State Social Services regulations regarding family planning, requires local county departments of social services to provide medical, educational, and social family planning services. Surgical abortion is not included under this law's definition of family planning; however, it does not address the issue of known abortifacient drugs, many of which masquerade as "contraceptives". Thus there seems to be no prohibition against funding such abortion causing drugs under Part 463. 5) The article referenced above (#3), about Delaware County Dept. of Social Services Commissioner Moon, indicated that his "educational" family planning program with Planned Parenthood is funded 90 percent by the Federal government, 5 percent by the State, and 5 percent by the County. This is the same rate as cited above (#2) for medical family planning services. 6) The 1993 NEW YORK STATE STATISTICAL YEARBOOK (18th ed.) written by the Nelson A. Rockefeller Institute of Government (tel. 518-443-5788), included a Medical Assistance Expenditures Table on page 387. This table listed 1990 Family Planning expenditures, by county, which totaled $40,638,956. While all of this money did not go to Planned Parenthood, much of it did go towards fueling the contraceptive/abortion mentality, thus promoting a culture of death. In conclusion, this study, while not exhaustive, does indicate that enormous amounts of tax money finds its way to Planned Parenthood under the Medicaid program in New York State. This money goes for educational, social, and medical family planning services as well as for abortions and general health care. Individual counties, even if they do not directly fund Planned Parenthood via a line item in their budgets, do indirectly fund Planned Parenthood with local tax money via the county's share of Medicaid payments to Planned Parenthood affiliates. Thus grass roots opposition to local county tax money's going to Planned Parenthood is justified. Local groups opposed to Planned Parenthood can obtain county specific data by sending the attached FOIL request form letter to the NYS Dept. of Health. Those opposed to Planned Parenthood are urged to publicize such county specific data and the fact that county taxes pay half the cost of local Medicaid abortions. Get your County Commissioner of Social Services to admit to these facts and protest to county officials via letters and/or picketing. When such officials counter by saying they are only following New York State mandates, ask them to formally go on record with a request to the State to change these mandates. However, most Medicaid family planning funding (90%) is coming from the Federal government so Federal representatives should be urged to cut such funding. Hopefully such cuts will cause State and Local family planning programs to wither. This top down approach, while most deserving of our efforts, should not preclude grass roots efforts aimed at ending Planned Parenthood funding at the local county level in New York State. Notes * (Tables 1 & 2) The author does not know if the Margaret Sanger Center is a Planned Parenthood affiliate. He believes this Center to be located in New York City and is puzzled as to why there seems to be no New York City Planned Parenthoods listed on the State's "MARS 19". Perhaps there are aliases which do not contain the words "Planned Parenthood?" If anyone can shed light upon this matter please contact me at the address listed below. Thanks. ** (Table 2) Seneca County Dept. of Social Services Commissioner Charles Schillaci listed the Family Planning Services of the Finger Lakes as a Planned Parenthood organization (6/13/96 FOIL response). Furthermore, Ontario County's "MARS 19" for the previous year (SFY 1994), lists a Planned Parenthood Finger Lakes with the exact same provider number that this year's statewide "MARS 19" lists for Family Planning Services of the Finger Lakes. *** (Table 3) Jefferson County Dept. of Social Services Commissioner Stephen P. Lyman listed the Circle Program as a Planned Parenthood program in his 6/12/96 FOIL response. Please direct questions and updates to: Edward Szymkowiak The Gift of Life League (A STOPP International Coalition Against Planned Parenthood affiliate) 73 East Front St. Hancock, NY 13783 Tel: 607-637-2330 E-mail: cg067@freenet.buffalo.edu Feb. 1997 County specific "MARS 19" Freedom of Information Law request form letter follows on next page. -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- -------------------- Date: ----------- Records Access Officer NYS Department of Health Corning Tower, Empire State Plaza Albany, NY 12237 Dear Records Access Officer: Under the provisions of the New York Freedom of Information Law, Article 6 of the Public Officers Law, I hereby request the following records: A copy of the Management and Administrative Report System (MARS) Report MR-0-19, for the County of for the State fiscal year for ONLY the Provider Type Categories of Clinic-Freestanding, C/THP (Child/Teen Health Program), and Prepaid Care. If there are any fees for copying the records requested, please supply the records without informing me if the fees are not in excess of , otherwise please inform me of the cost before sending the records requested. As you know, the Freedom of Information Law requires that an agency respond to a request within five business days of receipt of a request. Therefore I would appreciate a response as soon as possible and look forward to hearing from you shortly. If for any reason any portion of my request is denied, please inform me of the reasons for the denial in writing and provide the name and address of the person or body to whom an appeal should be directed. Thank you. Sincerely,Oppostion to County PP Contract page + + + DCRTL HOMEPAGE