STATE NEWS
Planned Parenthood patients could lose care without Medicaid funding, report finds
By Lilly Price | Jan. 22, 2017There will be a severe shortage of family planning services for Medicaid participants in Wisconsin if Planned Parenthood health centers are cut off from the state’s Medicaid program, a recent report shows. The study found that “without Planned Parenthood health center’s participation in the state’s Medicaid program, low income women, particularly low income women of color, will face significant barriers to accessing family planning services and other reproductive health care.” One of those barriers is the lack, or absence of, an alternative family planning service.
