Low-Income Women's Access to Family Planning

Maryland provides increased access to reproductive health care services through a Section 1115 waiver.  As part of this waiver, the state is allowed to cover family planning services for 5 years for women who would otherwise lose Medicaid eligibility postpartum.  

Beneficiaries of family planning coverage available through the waiver are not required to pay premiums or co-payments for covered services.  Covered services include office visits, laboratory tests, contraceptive devices and voluntary sterilizations.

The waiver will expire on May 31, 2011.  

Md. Health Choice Current Approval Documents, Ctrs. for Medicare and Medicaid Servs. Special Terms and Conditions, Md. Health Choice Medicaid Section 1115 Demonstration, Last amended May 23, 2007 at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicaidStWaivProgDemoPGI/MWDL/itemdetail.asp?filterType=none&filterByDID=-99&sortByDID=2&sortOrder=ascending&itemID=CMS043855&intNumPerPage=2000 (last visited Dec. 5, 2008); NARAL Pro-Choice America Survey of State Medicaid Offices