Becoming adept at working with health plans: a necessity for family planning centers.

With the U.S. health care landscape changing both dramatically and quickly family planning centers are facing two strong and related currents. First nearly all of the Americans who will be newly insured as a result of the Affordable Care Act (ACA) will likely enroll in some form of managed care plan. Second mounting budgetary and political pressures at the federal and state levels will likely make it simply unrealistic for centers to rely on grant funding -- such as Title X or state funds -- for a significant share of their program revenue going forward. To navigate these potentially treacherous waters family planning agencies will need to become adept at working with health plans and they will need to do so quickly. (Excerpt)