Terms and Meanings
Some terms that we use in this chapter may not be familiar. These terms and their meanings are listed below.
- Contraceptives: Medications or devices that prevent someone from becoming pregnant.
- Primary Care Provider: Your main health care professional who maintains your good health and cares for your basic health needs by giving vaccines, finding disease, and offering medication or treatment for conditions or symptoms.
- Provider: A doctor, nurse, therapist, or another qualified health care professional.
- Provider Directory: A list of providers, their area of practice, and contact information.
- Individual: Single person.
- Prescription: An order from your provider for medications, equipment, testing, or supplies.
- Services: Care, treatments, testing, checkups, equipment, supplies, and other ways your health care providers help you stay healthy.
- Specialist: A provider that focuses on a specific area of medicine, or a group of patients, to diagnose, manage, prevent or treat certain types of symptoms and conditions.
- TTY: The number you can call to connect with someone when you have a hearing impairment.
Family planning services help people understand and take responsibility for their reproductive health. The decisions you make around reproduction can have life-long effects. To help you live the happy and healthy life you desire, we offer education, counseling, and medical services such as:
- Consultation, exams, and medical treatment
- Contraceptive counseling
- Genetic counseling
- Hormonal methods (pills, patches, rings, and injectables)
- Informational materials for patient education
- Laboratory exams and tests
- Long-acting reversible contraception (Intrauterine devices and implants)
- Tubal ligation, removal, or occlusion
- Vasectomy
You can access these services through:
- Your primary care provider
- Clinics
- Public health units
- Outpatient hospital departments
- Pharmacies
- Nurse midwives
- Nurse practitioners
- Physician’s assistants
- Clinical nurse specialists
- Family planning agencies
Your provider must be enrolled in ND Medicaid to have your services covered. If you are wanting to visit about your reproductive health, call your provider and ask for an appointment.
If you need to find a provider to oversee your reproductive health, we can help!
- View our Provider Directory
- Once you have chosen a provider, make sure to call their office and ask if they are:
- Accepting new patients
- Accepting Medicaid
- Once you have chosen a provider, make sure to call their office and ask if they are:
- Call our Customer Support Center
Contact Information Mentioned in this Chapter
- Customer Support Center
- Toll-Free: 1-866-614-6005
- Local: 1-701-328-1000
- TTY: 711
- Free translation available upon request
- Email: applyforhelp@nd.gov
- Mail: Customer Support Center
PO Box 5562
Bismarck, ND 58506