What are Family Planning Services?

A. Family planning services include many women’s health services, and also include services for men. The family planning services that are covered under Medicaid include: Birth Control and Pregnancy Testing: • All types of birth control: pills, condoms, diaphragms, Ortho-Evra (the birth control “Patch”), IUDs, Depo Provera, Norplant and foams • Pregnancy testing and counseling • Emergency contraception: the “morning after” pill • Sterilization: getting your tubes tied for a woman, and vasectomy for a man STD and HIV tests • STD testing and treatment, when part of a family planning visit • HIV testing and counseling, when part of a family planning visit Women’s Health: • Abortion (medical and surgical) • These services, if provided during a family planning visit: • Pelvic and breast exams • Testing for high blood pressure and anemia (low blood count) • Pap smears (a test for cancer) • Colposcopy (a test to determine the cause of abnormalities found in Pap smears) • Cryotherapy (an outpa ... more

Family planning is the utilization of PRE-PREGNANCY services that involve preventing, spacing and achieving pregnancies, and assures that all females of reproductive age and their male partners have access to services which allow them to have planned pregnancies and planned, healthy babies. ... more