HAR §17-1737-46. Family planning services

(a) All fee for service medicaid recipients, male or female, including minors, who are sexually active or of child- bearing age, shall be eligible for family planning services and supplies. UNOFFICIAL 1737-64 (b) The department shall furnish assistance to any eligible person by: (1) Locating and referring to a recognized provider those persons encountering difficulties in obtaining family planning services; and (2) Prompt attention so that the eligible person shall be assured of receiving family planning service within thirty days from the time of the request. (c) The use of family planning services or practices shall be entirely on a voluntary basis. At no time shall any member of the department's staff place a recipient under any obligation, duress, compulsion, or use any other form of coercion on the recipient to accept or reject family planning services. (d) Family planning information shall be disseminated by: (1) Promptly informing new recipients of medical assistance of the availability of family planning services under the department's program, Title IV-A of the Social Security Act, and medicaid; and (2) The branch worker hand issuing or mailing the department's information brochure entitled "Family Planning Services" to newly approved medical assistance recipients. (e) Family planning services shall include: (1) Consultation, counseling, examination including breast and pelvic examination, and treatment by or under the supervision of a physician or prescribed by a physician; (2) Laboratory examinations and tests; (3) Medically approved methods, procedures, pharmaceutical supplies and devices to prevent conception; (4) Natural family planning methods; (5) Diagnosis for infertility; and (6) Voluntary sterilization procedures. [Eff 08/01/94; am 06/19/00 ] (Auth: HRS §346-14) (Imp: 42 C.F.R. §§441.20, 440.250, 440.40)