September 2015
Title X in Mississippi
Improving Public Health and Saving Taxpayer Dollars
Between FY2010 - FY2014, funding for Title X was cut by $30.5 million—
10.1% in four fiscal years.
Title X Served 48,006 Mississippi Residents in 2014
The Mississippi Department is the sole Title X grantee in Mississippi, supporting 122 Title X-funded
health centers across the state.i The Title X network served 47,652 women and 354 men, for a total of
48,006 residents of Mississippi in 2014.ii
Title X provides high-quality
family planning services and
other preventive health care to
low-income and uninsured
individuals who may otherwise
lack access to health care.
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Of the 48,006 patients served, 92% had incomes at or below
100% of the federal poverty level (FPL),iii meaning they earned
$11, 670 a year or less.iv
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One hundred percent of Title X patients in Mississippiv earned
less than $29,175 a year (250% of the FPL).vi
Title X Saves Mississippi Residents’ Taxpayer Dollars
Title X supports critical infrastructure needs that are not reimbursable under Medicaid or commercial
insurance, such as staff salaries, individual patient education, community-level outreach, and public
education about family planning, women’s health, and sexual health issues. Without Title X, access to
high-quality family planning services for low-income Mississippi residents would not be possible.
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The average cost of a Medicaid-funded birth is $12,770.vii In 2010, births resulting from
unintended pregnancies cost Mississippi’s taxpayers $40.4 million.viii
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The Title X program helps alleviate these costs by preventing unintended pregnancy through
contraception, counseling, and other services.ix
For more information, please contact the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association at
(202) 293-3114 or visit www.nationalfamilyplanning.org.
Title X is Essential to Improving Public Health and Saving Taxpayer Dollars in Mississippi
Cutting funding for family planning services will lead to more unintended pregnancies and higher health
care costs in Mississippi. Family planning helps women and families plan the timing and spacing of their
pregnancies, which results in better educational attainment and economic security; these, in turn, are
linked to better health outcomes for women and families.
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Mississippi’s Title X-funded health centers
provide a wide range of services:
Family planning services at Mississippi’s
Title X-funded health centers helped
prevent 13,400 unintended pregnancies in
2013, which would likely have resulted in
6,600 unintended births and 4,600
abortions.x
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Without publicly funded family planning, the
number of unintended pregnancies in
Mississippi would be 48% higher.xi
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Title X-funded services produce significant
cost savings to the federal and state
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Pregnancy testing
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Contraceptive services
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Pelvic exams
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Screening for cervical and breast cancer
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Screening for high blood pressure, anemia,
and diabetes
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Screening for STDs and HIV/AIDS
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Infertility services
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Health education
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Referrals for other health and social services
governments; services provided at Title X–
supported sites in Mississippi accounted for $78.1million in such savings in 2010 alone.xii
Additional cuts to Title X funding—especially in the current economy—would harm tens
of thousands of low-income and poor families throughout Mississippi, in turn costing,
not saving, the federal government money.
i
Surveys from NFPRHA members.
Christina Fowler, Julia Gable, Jiantong Wang, and David Lasater, Family Planning Annual Report: 2014 National Summary, (Research Triangle
Park, NC: RTI International, August 2015), accessed September 15,2015,
http://www.hhs.gov/opa/pdfs/title-x-fpar-2014-national.pdf.
iii Ibid.
iv Families USA, Federal Poverty Guidelines, accessed September 15, 2015,
http://familiesusa.org/product/federal-poverty-guidelines.
v Christina Fowler, Julia Gable, Jiantong Wang, and David Lasater, Family Planning Annual Report: 2014 National Summary.
vi Families USA, Federal Poverty Guidelines, accessed September 15, 2015.
vii Guttmacher Institute, Public Costs from Unintended Pregnancies and the Role of Public
Insurance Programs in Paying for Pregnancy-Related Care National and State Estimates (2010), accessed September 15, 2015,
https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/public-costs-of-UP-2010.pdf.
viii Ibid.
ix Guttmacher Institute, Contraceptive Needs and Services, 2013 Update, accessed September 15, 2015,
https://www.guttmacher.org/pubs/win/contraceptive-needs-2013.pdf.
x Guttmacher Institute, State Facts on Publicly Funded Family Planning Services: Mississippi (2012), accessed September 15, 2015,
http://www.guttmacher.org/statecenter/family-planning/pdf/MS.html.
xi Ibid.
xii Ibid.
ii
For more information, please contact the National Family Planning & Reproductive Health Association at
(202) 293-3114 or visit www.nationalfamilyplanning.org.