Association of Primary Care Physicians' Individual- and Community-Level Characteristics With Contraceptive Service Provision to Medicaid Beneficiaries.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

Little is known about primary care physicians who provide contraceptive services to Medicaid beneficiaries. Evaluating this workforce may help explain barriers to accessing these services since contraceptive care access is critical for Medicaid beneficiaries' health.

Objective

To describe the primary care physician workforce that provides contraceptive services to Medicaid beneficiaries and explore the factors associated with their Medicaid contraceptive service provision.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study, conducted from August 1 to October 10, 2022, used data from the Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System from 2016 for primary care physicians from 4 specialties (family medicine, internal medicine, obstetrics and gy

SUBMITTER: Bodas M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10024198 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Mar

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature