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Association of Access to Family Planning Services With Medicaid Expansion Among Female Enrollees in Michigan.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

To date, 32 states and the District of Columbia have expanded Medicaid programs under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It is vital to understand whether expanded health insurance coverage of low-income individuals improves access to family planning services as a first step toward improving reproductive health outcomes.

Objective

To evaluate the association of Medicaid expansion coverage with access to birth control and family planning services among women of reproductive age enrolled in the Michigan expansion plan.

Design, setting, and participants

In a survey study, from January 13 through December 15, 2016, telephone surveys of a stratified sample of enrollees in Michigan's Section 1115 Medicaid Expansion waiver program, the Healthy Michigan Plan (HMP), were conducted. Interviewers completed surveys for 4090 sampled enrollees, of whom 1166 were women aged 19 to 44 years. Surveys were conducted with a computer-assisted telephone interviewing system in English, Arabic, and Spanish. The sample was weighted to 113 565 women. Dates of data analysis were from January 27 through September 18, 2017.

Main outcomes and measures

Self-reported change in access to birth control and family planning services through HMP (better, worse, about the same, or don't know/doesn't apply), compared with before enrollment.

Results

Among the 1166 survey respondents aged 19 to 44 years (mean [SD] age, 31.0 [0.3] years) and the weighted sample of 113?565, 74.7% (95% CI, 72.2%-76.9%) lived in very-low-income households (<100% federal poverty level), 64.0% (95% CI, 60.5%-67.3%) reported at least 1 chronic medical condition, 23.5% (95% CI, 20.6%-26.6%) reported fair or poor health, and 17.7% (95% CI, 15.7%-19.9%) lived in rural settings. Overall, 35.5% (95% CI, 32.2%-39.0%) reported increased access to family planning services. After adjusting, those most likely to report increased access were women without health insurance coverage in the year preceding HMP enrollment (adjusted odds ratio [aOR], 2.02; 95% CI, 1.41-2.89) compared with women with health insurance for the full 12 months preceding enrollment; younger women (aOR for 19-24 years, 2.80 [95% CI, 1.75-4.50]; aOR for 25-34 years, 2.35 [95% CI, 1.60-3.45]) compared with women aged 35 to 44 years; and women with a recent visit to a primary care clinician (aOR 1.69; 95% CI, 1.03-2.76) compared with women without a primary care visit in the preceding 12 months.

Conclusions and relevance

One in 3 women of reproductive age reported better ability to access birth control and family planning services through HMP compared with before enrollment. This finding suggests that Medicaid expansion is associated with improved access to family planning services, which may enable low-income women to maintain optimal reproductive health.

SUBMITTER: Moniz MH

PROVIDER: S-EPMC6324283 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature

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Association of Access to Family Planning Services With Medicaid Expansion Among Female Enrollees in Michigan.

Moniz Michelle H MH Kirch Matthias A MA Solway Erica E Goold Susan D SD Ayanian John Z JZ Kieffer Edith C EC Clark Sarah J SJ Tipirneni Renuka R Kullgren Jeffrey T JT Chang Tammy T

JAMA network open 20180803 4

<h4>Importance</h4>To date, 32 states and the District of Columbia have expanded Medicaid programs under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act. It is vital to understand whether expanded health insurance coverage of low-income individuals improves access to family planning services as a first step toward improving reproductive health outcomes.<h4>Objective</h4>To evaluate the association of Medicaid expansion coverage with access to birth control and family planning services among women ...[more]

PMID: 30646135

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Dataset Information

Association of Access to Family Planning Services With Medicaid Expansion Among Female Enrollees in Michigan.

Importance

Objective

Design, setting, and participants

Main outcomes and measures

Results

Conclusions and relevance

Publications

Association of Access to Family Planning Services With Medicaid Expansion Among Female Enrollees in Michigan.

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