The state of New York is attempting to ensure access to family planning (FP) services for Medicaid recipients enrolled in managed care (MC) plans administered by institutions affiliated with the Roman Catholic Church which will not provide FP services or referrals. When the US Congress allowed sta...
In this article we examine the federal freedom-of-choice statute, which was enacted in the mid-1980s to protect Medicaid beneficiaries' access to timely and confidential family planning services. We also examine how these provisions have been implemented in 15 jurisdictions and provide a case stud...
(42%) women obtaining abortions in 2008 had incomes below the poverty level.34For women who are covered by federal insurance programs like Medicaid, the Indian Health Service, as well as federal employees and women in the military, federal funds are only permitted to be used for abortions in...
This paper uses 1984 and 1989 Arizona survey data to explore the importance of insurance coverage for access to family planning services. In Arizona, Medicaid was provided through the Arizona Health Care Cost Containment System, a managed care model. Family planning was not provided in 1984 but ...
This paper uses the fact that states joined the Medicaid programme at different times between early 1966 and early 1970 to estimate the effect of health insurance availability on childbearing and marital choice. Data on women aged 15 to 45 during the 1964 to 1972 period from the March Current ...
The expansions for pregnant women pioneered what was for Medicaid a wholly new emphasis: actively reaching out to potential clients in an attempt to locate and enroll in the program as many eligible people as possible. The family planning expansions have built upon this foundation. In the process...
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Please have your insurance card ready so that we can verify your insurance coverage before your scheduled appointment, if you have private health insurance or an HMO policy. We can provide abortion services at no cost to you if you haveMedicaid coverage through the state of Illinois. If you ...
However, the family planning usage may be underestimated as it only captured prescription-based methods and methods covered by the insurance plan [34, 38]. Prescription of contraception by the healthcare providers also did not provide information whether the women actually used the contraception and ...
Children Health Insurance Program (CHIP), entitled Health and Well Kids in Iowa (hawk-i), or other health insurance coverageand: (1) have countable income at or below 200% of the Federal Poverty level (FPL), or (2) have lost Medicaid pregnancy coverage at the conclusion of the 60-daypo...