Low-Income Women's Access to Family Planning

Wyoming 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 19 to 44 with incomes at or below 133% of the federal poverty level, who are 60 days postpartum and losing Medicaid coverage and who are not otherwise eligible for the state's 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: initial physical exam including a pap smear and testing for STIs; annual family planning follow-up visits; laboratory visits for family planning, education and counseling; and FDA-approved contraceptives medications, diaphragms, contraceptive injectables, contraceptive implants, and sterilizations.

Wyo.  Family Planning Demonstration Application, Ctrs. for Medicare and Medicaid Servs., at Officeshttp://www.cms.hhs.gov/MedicaidStWaivProgDemoPGI/MWDL/itemdetail.asp?filterType=dual,%20keyword&filterValue=1115&filterByDID=0&sortByDID=2&sortOrder=ascending&itemID=CMS1192983&intNumPerPage=10 (last visited Dec. 5, 2008); NARAL Pro-Choice America Survey of State Medicaid