Low-Income Women's Access to Family Planning

Michigan 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 185% of the federal poverty level.  

Beneficiaries of family planning coverage available through the waiver are not required to pay premiums or co-payments for covered services.  Covered services include: medically necessary services and supplies related to birth control, pregnancy prevention and preventive services, including contraceptive management with a variety of methods, patient education, counseling, and referral as needed to other social services and health care providers; contraceptive counseling and information; contraceptive supplies, devices, implants and prescriptions; office visits, consultation, examination and medical treatment; laboratory examinations and tests; voluntary sterilization; HIV blood screenings/STI testing in conjunction with a family planning encounter.  

The waiver will expire on Mar. 1, 2011.  

Mich. Family Planning Approval Letter, Ctrs. for Medicare and Medicaid Servs. at http://www.michigan.gov/documents/Family_Planning_Waiver_03_01_06_159360_7.pdf (last visited Dec. 5, 2008);
 NARAL Pro-Choice America Survey of State Medicaid Offices