Low-Income Women's Access to Family Planning

Wisconsin 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 women ages 15 to 44 with incomes at or below 200% of the federal poverty level who are not otherwise eligible for the state's expanded Medicaid and SCHIP program, known as BadgerCare Plus.

Beneficiaries of family planning coverage available through the waiver are not required to pay premiums or co-payments for covered services.  Covered services include: family planning office visits; limited laboratory services; sterilization; contraceptives devices; pharmaceutical supplies; treatment of sexually transmitted diseases; and other services.

The waiver will expire on Dec. 31, 2010.

Wis. Family Planning Demonstration Fact Sheet, Ctrs. for Medicare and Medicaid Servs., April 6, 2006 at http://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicaidStWaivProgDemoPGI/MWDL/itemdetail.asp?filterType=dual,%20data&filterValue=Wisconsin&filterByDID=2&sortByDID=2&sortOrder=ascending&itemID=CMS047939&intNumPerPage=10 (last visited Dec. 5, 2008); NARAL Pro-Choice America Survey of State Medicaid Offices