Client Benefits & Services
Women enrolled in Planning for Healthy Babies® who do not receive Medicaid are eligible for family planning services covered by the Georgia Medicaid program including:
- Family planning initial exam and annual exam
- Contraceptive (birth control) services and supplies
- Follow-up family planning visits
- Pregnancy tests and pap smears
- Testing for STD(s)
- Treatment and follow-up for all STD(s) except HIV/AIDS and Hepatitis
- Counseling and referrals to social services and primary health care providers
- Sterilization
- Family planning pharmacy visits
- Vitamins/folic acid
- Select immunizations for participants ages 19 and 20. Participants age 18 receive vaccines at no cost
In addition to the family planning services listed above, women who give birth to a very low birth weight (VLBW) baby on or after January 1, 2011, and do not receive Medicaid or are losing Medicaid coverage, are eligible for inter-pregnancy care services, which offer:
- Primary care (5 office/outpatient visits)
- Substance abuse treatment
- Resource Mother services (care management)
- Limited dental services
- Prescription drugs for the treatment of chronic diseases (non-family planning)
Women who currently receive Medicaid benefits and have given birth to a VLBW baby on or after January 1, 2011, are only eligible for Resource Mother services. The Resource Mother mentors women who give birth to babies weighing less than 3 pounds, 5 ounces. She offers support to mothers and provides them with information on parenting, nutrition and healthy lifestyles. Resource Mothers also offer the following services:
- Meet with P4HB® participants via phone or in person to increase their adoption of healthy behaviors, including healthy eating choices and smoking cessation
- Follow-up to make sure the baby receives regular “well-baby” check ups and immunizations
- Referrals to community resources such as WIC
- Provides the mother with the peer and emotional support needed to meet the health demands of her VLBW baby and more