Required Training for Family Planning Program Providers
Additional Training Resources (not required)
2023 Post Meeting Award
- 2023 Post Award Meeting is available upon request.
- Agency Management System (AMS). (Google folder)
- iCare Training Page. (webpage)
- 2023 Adolescent Counseling Webinar. (Google folder)
2021 LARC Symposium
- 2021 LARC Symposium. (Google folder)
Training resources for long-acting reversible contraception methods
- Virtual LARC Training During COVID-19. (PDF)
- LARC Training Evaluation. (PDF)
- LARC Training Toolkit. (PDF)
- Beyond the Pill’s free online training. (Beyond the Pill website)
- A primer on IUDs and contraceptive implants is suitable for all types of health care providers and support staff. (Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health and University of California San Francisco).
- Immediate Post-Placental LARC Insertion. (ACOG website)
- An ACOG educational video.
IUD insertion and removal videos
- Liletta® single-handed insertion and removal. (Liletta website)
- Mirena®. (Mirena website)
- Skyla®. (Skyla website PDF)
- Kyleena™. (Kyleena website)
- Paragard. (Paragard website)
- CopperT insertion video. (YouTube video, Association of Reproductive Health Professionals).
Implant insertion and removal
- Nexplanon insertion and removal instructions. (MerckConnect).
Contraceptive counseling
- Contraception. (ACOG website)
- ACOG’s “How I Practice” video series.
- Counseling session videos for clinic staff. (LARC FIRST website).
- Training new counselors. (LARC FIRST website).
Additional LARC training
- The LARC link. (Clinical Training Center For Sexual And Reproductive Health (CTC-SRH) website)
- An online tool to find training (National Clinical Training Center for Family Planning).
- Free webinars. (ACOG website)
- Offered by the ACOG LARC Program.
Patient assistance programs for LARC methods
- Paragard Patient Assistance Program. (LARC FIRST website)
- Nexplanon Patient Assistance Program. (RX HOPE website)
- Mirena, Kyleena and Skyla Patient Assistance Program. (Bayer Patient Assistance website)
LARC billing and coding materials
- Emergency rule for LARC reimbursement.
- The Medical Services Board approved a Code of Colorado Regulations emergency rule on July 14, 2017, that allows for reimbursement for LARCs to FQHCs outside of the encounter rate.
- Provider bulletin (page 13)
- The Department of Health Care and Policy Financing (HCPF) posted in the July 2017 news bulletin that LARC insertion to hospitals that will be carved out of APR-DRG reimbursement and will be paid FFS. This change is awaiting CMS approval, so it will be implemented retroactively and claims will be adjusted.
- Billing and coding manual for Colorado Title X Family Planning.
- LARC reimbursement fact sheets. (Association of State and Territorial Health Officials)
- LARC stocking and supply. (PDF)
- A guide from the National Family Planning and Reproductive Health Association.
- Intrauterine Devices and Implants: A Guide to Reimbursement. (UCSF Bixby Center for Global Reproductive Health).