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SUBMITTER: Gordon SH
PROVIDER: S-EPMC7926836 | biostudies-literature | 2020 Jan
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gordon Sarah H SH Sommers Benjamin D BD Wilson Ira B IB Trivedi Amal N AN
Health affairs (Project Hope) 20200101 1
Timely postpartum care is associated with lower maternal morbidity and mortality, yet fewer than half of Medicaid beneficiaries attend a postpartum visit. Medicaid enrollees are at higher risk of postpartum disruptions in insurance because pregnancy-related Medicaid eligibility ends sixty days after delivery. We used Medicaid claims data for 2013-15 from Colorado, which expanded Medicaid under the Affordable Care Act, and Utah, which did not. We found that after expansion, new mothers in Utah ex ...[more]