By: Cat Duffy
Executive Summary
In 2022, the National Health Law Program started a project to comprehensively map the Medicaid coverage and reimbursement policies that impact access to telehealth medication abortion (TMAB) services. We published an in-depth report investigating the policy landscape in six states that use their own funding to provide abortion coverage for Medicaid enrollees. You can find that report and fact sheets for the six states here.
This report is the next installment in that series, examining the policies and regulations in a new set of states: Illinois, Minnesota, New Mexico, New York, Rhode Island, and Washington. This issue brief provides a thorough analysis of the major policies impacting coverage and reimbursement of TMAB, including detailing the major trends and highlighting policy barriers that impede comprehensive coverage and thus access to TMAB for Medicaid enrollees. It concludes with a discussion of the importance of Medicaid coverage of TMAB and highlight forthcoming work.
