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Planned Parenthood Says Texas Officials Visited its Clinics

Health investigators have visited and served subpoenas at Planned Parenthood clinics across Texas, as the state moves to halt Medicaid funding to the organization.

Planned Parenthood said Thursday that investigators sought detailed patient health and billing records, as well as staff payroll and personnel files dating back to 2010.

They asked for such files at clinics in Houston, Dallas and San Antonio, and a health center that does not provide abortions in Brownsville, on the Mexico border.

A spokesman for the Texas Health and Human Services Commission declined comment.

The move comes three days after Texas announced it had begun removing Planned Parenthood from the joint state-federal Medicaid program.

State health officials have pointed to undercover videos released by an anti-abortion group to allege that Planned Parenthood misspent Medicaid funding.

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