Restricting, cutting Medicaid funding shifts more reproductive health care to telemedicine

Restricting, cutting Medicaid funding shifts more reproductive health care to telemedicine

Sarah Elgatian is a graduate student in rural Iowa, who like about 16 million women of reproductive age, uses Medicaid insurance and at times has relied on Planned Parenthood for routine gynecological treatment for infections and birth control, both in person and through its growing telehealth program. (Photo by Todd Welvaert for States Newsroom)Fourth in a five-part series. Sarah Elgatian was in too much pain to feel awkward.  That morning in …