The state of New Mexico requested a section 1115(a) Waiver to extend Medicaid eligibility for family planning services to all women of childbearing age with income at or below 185 percent of the federal poverty level.

The Family Planning Waiver is a Medicaid Program that enables you to receive free contraceptive care if you meet the eligibility requirements. You are eligible for this program even if you are covered by another form of health insurance. To enroll, request an application form at the Student Health Center front desk. When completed, the application will be reviewed by staff and eligibility will be discussed.

My son is 27 and he has aspergers . He is very inteligent. He works and drives and pays his own bills. The problem is he has a hard time making friends and he would really like female companionship but doesn't know how to go about it. Do you have any kind of adult social group in colorado where he could meet people close to his age. Where they have group discussions and maybe outings of some kind. We live in Aurora, Co. Thank you.

There are two ways to be accepted into the program. If you reside in a nursing home facility and are currently receiving Long Term Care Medicaid benefits, you can apply now. Contact Senior Services & Community Transit at 410-996-5295 to get information about the program. If you live in the community (your own home, apartment or an Assisted Living Home), call 1-866-417-3480 to place your name on the state Registry, the waiting list for the program.

A waiver is a funding mechanism which allows the state to offer community-based services as an alternative to institutional services. The term waiver specifically refers to two elements of home and community-based services: First, the state applies to the Center for Medicare and Medicaid Services for a special waiver or a special allowance from the services typically included in the State Medicaid Plan.

Medicaid Planning involves developing a plan to reallocate your assets in such a way that Medicaid will not take them into consideration when determining your eligibility for coverage. If you need nursing home care is needed in the future, you will then qualify to have Medicaid pay for the cost of care, rather than depleting your own resources to cover these costs.

Natural Family Planning (NFP) refers to the practice of avoiding or achieving pregnancy according to an informed awareness of a woman's fertility. It can also refer to the spacing of pregnancies through Ecological Breastfeeding. During each monthly cycle, a woman normally becomes fertile and then infertile. Her body provides certain signs to indicate her fertile and infertile times. Natural Family Planning's Sympto-Thermal Method teaches you how to observe and interpret these signs . . .

A number of studies have shown that the Sympto-Thermal Method of NFP can be used at the 99% level of effectiveness for avoiding or spacing pregnancies. It is interesting to note that throughout the history of modern "birth control," the moral means of achieving this end that have been recommended by the Catholic Church were never less effective than the most effective immoral means available at the time.

Because NFP is 100% natural, there are no health risks from harmful drugs or devices. The Pill also acts as an early abortion agent in some cases because its effect on the lining of the uterus prevents implantation. Because NFP teaches you to become aware of your normal fertility pattern, changes in this pattern can alert you to medical problems. mentioned earlier, the Sympto-Thermal Method of NFP is highly effective both for avoiding and achieving pregnancy.

Medicaid is the single largest payer for nursing home care in the United States. Medicaid is a joint federal and state program. In Colorado, through the Home and Community Based Services Program, qualified applicants who do not require nursing home services can receive coverage for assisted living facilities, prescription drugs or in-home visits. Medicaid is a needs based program available to those meeting certain asset and income tests.

The provider application and instructions can be found on Iowa Medicaid Enterprise's (IME) web site. Any questions regarding the completion of the application can be directed to Iowa Medicaid Enterprise Provider Services 1-800-338-7909 or 515-725-1004 (from Des Moines).

NFP provides a medically safe, healthy, highly effective and very low cost method of planning your family. It is convenient (no birth control devices to use), and it's immediately reversible for achieving or avoiding pregnancy. It is increasingly available throughout the world, it tells you when you have achieved pregnancy, and it's morally acceptable. It is scientifically established that during each menstrual cycle a woman normally becomes fertile and then naturally infertile.

The Medicaid Waiver enables older adults to remain in a community setting even though their advanced age or disability would warrant placement in a long-term care facility. The Waiver allows services that are typically covered by Medicaid only in long-term care facilities to be provided to eligible persons in their own homes or in assisted living facilities.

Yes. Everyone has different health care needs. You can choose a different Medicaid health plan and primary care doctor for each eligible member of your family.

The Sympto-Thermal Method is a system of using the mucus and temperature signs in a crosschecking way for the highest confidence and reliability in family planning. Many women also use the other signs. No. The Rhythm Method was the Calendar Rhythm Method developed in 1930. It was based on some biological averages, but it did not work well for women who had irregular cycles. It was the 1930's model of NFP, and great progress has been made since then.

Family planning assistance saves lives, improves health, contributes to healthier children, and prevents abortion. Those countries in the developing world that have invested in health and education and have provided women access to family planning and reproductive health programs have experienced faster economic growth than those that have not.

A healthy environment is vital to ensuring the health of our families, and vice versa. Rapid population growth can result in using up the environment's resources - the trees, the water, and the wildlife - more quickly than they are replaced. For example, encroachments on the environment have led to new infectious diseases while water shortages are seriously affecting people in the developing world.