Local news briefs: Family Planning program gets 3-year extension
Wausau Daily Herald ¦ 21 December 2007 ... The state of Wisconsin has successfully negotiated a three-year extension of the Medicaid Family Planning Waiver program with the federal Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services, according to the Wisconsin Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association. The program provides 75,000 Wisconsin women, including many in the Wausau area, with comprehensive family planning and reproductive health care at no cost to individuals. The pilot program was expected to end Dec. 31. "This ensures that women who depend on this program will continue to be able to plan their families into the New Year," said Lon Newman, public affairs chairman for the Family Planning association. He also is executive director of Family Planning Health Services in Wausau. About 70 percent of Family Planning Health Services' 7,000 patients at its seven clinics are eligible for the program, he said. That translates to about 1,700 women in Marathon County, but its services, including birth control pills by mail and its emergency contraception program, reach women throughout the state, he added. ...
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