isqualify Medicaid providers merely because they also offer abortions. The U.S. Justice Department also had filed a brief siding with Planned Parenthood, with attorneys saying the law restricts Medicaid recipients' freedom to choose their health care provider. The state had argued that federal law forbids Medicaid to cover abortions in most circumstances and that the program indirectly funds the procedures because the state has said Planned Parenthood's financial statements show it commingles Medicaid funds with other revenues. The state has said the state-federal health insurance plan for low-income and disabled people might subsidize some of the overhead costs for space where abortions are performed. Planned Parenthood's attorney, Ken Falk of the American Civil Liberties Union, has said the law signed May 10 by Gov. Mitch Daniels made Indiana the first state to deny Medicaid funds SAN FRANCISCO -- Greece has secured the approval of E.U. and IMF inspectors for its latest five-year austerity plan after agreeing to additional tax hikes and spending cuts, Reuters reported on its website Thursday, citing sources familiar with the talks. "We have a deal," one of the sources told the news agency. However, a few technical details are expected to be finalized on Friday, according to Reuters.Copyright © 2011 MarketWatch, Inc. r a new program. Athens earlier Thursday said that while they are sticking to the bottom-line deficit reduction of EUR6.4 billion this year, they are changing how they plan to cut EUR3.5 billion. "All this is being debated right now. We are looking at new measures to replace a EUR3.5 billion shortfall that the troika has identified," Greek government spokesman Elias Mossialos told Dow Jones Newswires. "But there is no way we will reduce the size of the package from what we have previously committed." Hawley said IMF officials are in Athens "to take stock of current policies with the authorities." "We have not received a request for a new arrangement from Greece. As said, we stand ready to continue our support for Greece subject to adoption of the economic policy reforms agreed with the Greek authorities," a fund spokesman said. The IMF's executive board hasn't set a date to review the next tranche of the