Low-Income Women's Access to Family Planning

Oregon 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 of childbearing age with incomes at or below 185% of the federal poverty level who are not enrolled in traditional Medicaid state and federal 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: contraceptive education and counseling; contraceptives (includes FDA-approved over-the-counter drugs, injectables and implants); office visits, examinations and HIV blood screenings/sexually transmitted infection testing in conjunction with a family planning encounter.  

The waiver will expire on Oct. 31, 2009.  

Or. Family Planning Demonstration Fact Sheet, Ctrs. for Medicare and Medicaid Servs., Oct. 19, 2006 at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicaidStWaivProgDemoPGI/MWDL/itemdetail.asp?filterType=none&filterByDID=-99&sortByDID=2&sortOrder=ascending&itemID=CMS047335&intNumPerPage=2000 (last visited Dec. 5, 2008), NARAL Pro-Choice America Survey of State Medicaid Offices