Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region will start accepting Medicaid payments for certain services again after the federal law blocking reimbursement expires on July 3, according to a statement from CEO Nan Whaley.
Planned Parenthood Southwest Ohio Region serves 20 counties in the region and three more in Northern Kentucky. People will be able to use Medicaid at those locations to pay for preventive health care services, including birth control, STI testing, cancer screenings and other services.
The 2025 Federal Budget Reconciliation Law – signed on July 4 by President Donald Trump – banned federal Medicaid reimbursements for certain nonprofit reproductive health care providers that offer abortion services, including Planned Parenthood. The nonprofit stopped accepting Medicaid as payment in September 2025, after a federal appeals court lifted the preliminary injunction that blocked the defunding, according to a press release from Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio.
Medicaid cannot be used to cover abortion services after the federal ban expires, Whaley said.
“Planned Parenthood is a vital part of the health care safety net, and these cuts weakened an already severely strained health care system. Ohioans deserve access to more providers, not less,” Whaley said.
Planned Parenthood of Greater Ohio, which operates 12 health centers, will be able to start accepting Medicaid payments again.
“As an essential provider of a broad range of reproductive healthcare services, we have seen this restriction cause incalculable and, in some cases, irreversible harm to our community,” said CEO Erica Wilson-Domer.
Expiration of the federal ban on Medicaid payments will restore care for the nearly 22,000 patients in central and norther regions of Ohio, who lost access after the federal bill was passed, Wilson-Domer said.
This article originally appeared on Cincinnati Enquirer: Ohio Planned Parenthood will accept Medicaid after federal budget bill expires
Reporting by Esther Launstein, Cincinnati Enquirer / Cincinnati Enquirer
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