Low-Income Women's Access to Family Planning

Rhode Island 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 24 months for women with incomes at or below 250% of the federal poverty level who would lose Medicaid eligibility postpartum.

Beneficiaries of family planning coverage available through the waiver are not required to pay premiums, but must pay co-payments for covered services.  

The waiver will expire on Sept. 30, 2011.  

R.I. Rite Care Section 1115 Health Demonstration Fact Sheet, Ctrs. for Medicare and Medicaid Servs., Aug. 1, 2008 at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicaidStWaivProgDemoPGI/downloads/Rhode%20Island%20RIteCare%20Fact%20Sheet.pdf (last visited Oct. 28, 2008);  NARAL Pro-Choice America Survey of State Medicaid Offices