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The cost of testing through the Prenatal Screening Program is $221.60 and participation is entirely voluntary. The tests are offered free of charge to families in California who are under the Medi-Cal social health care program. For individuals not on [http://www.coveredca.com/medi-cal Medi-Cal], insurance companies and HMOs are required to cover the fees for the screening program. | |||
NIPT screening tests are offered to expectant mothers in California free of charge under the California Prenatal Screening Program. The NIPT test would normally cost around $550. Since 2009, the Program has included options for first and/or second trimester screening. | |||
[http://www.nature.com/gim/journal/v13/n8/full/gim2011116a.html The California Prenatal Screening Program: “Options and choices” not “coercion and eugenics”] | |||
[https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3898859/ Commercial Landscape of noninvasive prenatal testing in the United States] | |||
[http://www.cdph.ca.gov California Department of Public Health] | |||
==Abortion== | ==Abortion== | ||