Planned Parenthood Medicaid ban quietly lapses
A one-year ban that blocked Planned Parenthood from billing Medicaid, part of the 2025 "One Big Beautiful Bill Act", expired on July 4 after Congress left for recess without renewing it, restoring the group's Medicaid funding for non-abortion care.
- The law, signed July 4, 2025, cut off Medicaid reimbursements for one year to abortion providers that had received $800,000 or more in Medicaid in 2023, a threshold aimed at Planned Parenthood.
- Senate rules limited the ban to a single year. It expired July 4, 2026, and Congress did not extend it before its summer recess, despite pressure from anti-abortion groups.
- With the ban gone, Planned Parenthood can again bill Medicaid (worth roughly $800 million) for services like contraception, cancer screenings and STI testing. Federal law still bars Medicaid money for most abortions.
Why it mattersA major restriction on the largest US abortion provider ended not by a vote or a court ruling but by Congress running out the clock, and reversing it would take new legislation.
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