Low-Income Women's Access to Family Planning

Louisiana provides increased access to reproductive health care services through a Section 1115 family planning waiver.  The waiver allows the state to cover family planning services for women ages 19 to 44 with incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty level, who are not otherwise eligible for federal or state health care programs.  

Covered services include: all services currently identified in the Medicaid Program as family planning services for women, including sterilizations; 4 visits per calendar year for services rendered by a physician, physician assistant, nurse practitioner or nurse; all-FDA approved family planning pharmaceuticals, devices, methods or supplies.  

The waiver will expire on July 1, 2011.  

Medicaid Waivers and Demonstrations List, Details for La. Family Planning Waiver 1115, Ctrs. for Medicare and Medicaid Servs. at   http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicaidStWaivProgDemoPGI/MWDL/itemdetail.asp?filterType=none&filterByDID=-99&sortByDID=2&sortOrder=ascending&itemID=CMS047946&intNumPerPage=2000 (last visited Dec. 5, 2008); La. Family Planning Demonstration Fact Sheet, Ctrs. for Medicare and Medicaid Servs. at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicaidStWaivProgDemoPGI/downloads/LAFPFactsheet.pdf (last visited Dec. 5, 2008); NARAL Pro-Choice America Survey of State Medicaid Offices