Telehealth use among publicly funded family planning clinics in the United States: Results from a national survey

Madeleine Haas; Priscille Osias; Jennifer Mueller; Alicia VandeVusse

doi:10.1016/j.contraception.2025.111003

Telehealth use among publicly funded family planning clinics in the United States: Results from a national survey

Contraception. 2025 Jun 26:111003. doi: 10.1016/j.contraception.2025.111003. Online ahead of print.

Authors

Madeleine Haas¹, Priscille Osias², Jennifer Mueller², Alicia VandeVusse²

Affiliations

¹ Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY, United States. Electronic address: mhaas@guttmacher.org.
² Guttmacher Institute, New York, NY, United States.

PMID: 40581203
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2025.111003

Abstract

Objectives: This study aimed to examine the scope of telehealth contraceptive services at publicly supported family planning clinics.

Study design: We surveyed a sample of 446 publicly supported family planning clinics in the United States.

Results: Most clinics offer some services via telehealth, but provision varies widely by clinic type, with Planned Parenthood clinics offering telehealth most frequently, and by service, with certain contraceptive services, sexually transmitted infections (STI) testing and treatment, and medication abortion less frequently available than messaging services.

Conclusions: Health departments and federally qualified health centers may need more support and infrastructure to implement telehealth for contraceptive care.

Implications: Many publicly supported family planning clinics in the United States offer telehealth for contraceptive care, but clinics vary in the types of services available via telehealth. Clinics and patients who want or need to use telehealth for contraceptive care may need more supportive infrastructure to do so.

Keywords: Contraception; Health care providers; Telehealth; Telemedicine.