Low-Income Women's Access to Family Planning

Oklahoma 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 all men and women over the age of 19 with incomes at or below 185% of the federal poverty level, who are not otherwise eligible for state health care programs.  

Beneficiaries of family planning coverage available through the waiver are not required to pay premiums or co-payments for covered services.  Covered services include: comprehensive health assessment and risk assessment for unintended pregnancy, poor pregnancy outcome and sexually transmitted diseases; health education and counseling; cancer screening and prevention, including annual Pap smears; pregnancy diagnosis and counseling; physical examination; laboratory tests, including a test for sexually transmitted diseases and HIV-AIDS; contraceptive method information client counseling; FDA-approved contraceptive supplies; follow-up visits and referral; sterilization.  

The waiver will expire on Mar. 31, 2010.  

Okla. Health Care Authority, State of Okla. 1115(a) Research and Demonstration Waiver.  Letter to Mike Fogarty re: Approval for Section 1115 Waiver, Dept. of Health and Human Services, Ctrs. for Medicare and Medicaid Servs., Nov. 5, 2004 at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicaidStWaivProgDemoPGI/MWDL/itemdetail.asp?filterType=none&filterByDID=-99&sortByDID=2&sortOrder=ascending&itemID=CMS047012&intNumPerPage=2000 (last visited Dec. 5, 2008); NARAL Pro-Choice America Survey of State Medicaid Offices