2025-09-11T22:58:38Z BOSTON (AP) A U.S. appeals court panel on Thursday allowed President Donald Trumps administration to block Medicaid funds to Planned Parenthood while legal challenges continue.A federal judge in July ruled Planned Parenthood clinics nationwide must continue to be reimbursed for Medicaid funding as the nations largest abortion provider fights Trumps administration over efforts to defund the organization in his signature tax legislation.Planned Parenthood said Thursdays ruling means that more than 1.1 million patients cant use their Medicaid insurance at its health centers. That also puts as many as 200 of those health centers at risk of closure, Planned Parenthood said in a statement.Medicaid is a government health care program that serves millions of low-income and disabled Americans. Nearly half of Planned Parenthoods patients rely on Medicaid. A provision in Trumps tax bill instructed the federal government to end Medicaid payments for one year to abortion providers that received more than $800,000 from Medicaid in 2023, even to those like Planned Parenthood that also offer medical services like contraception, pregnancy tests and STD testing.