State Variation in Severe Maternal Morbidity Among Individuals With Medicaid Insurance.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To measure variation in delivery-related severe maternal morbidity (SMM) among individuals with Medicaid insurance by state and by race and ethnicity across and within states.

Methods

We conducted a pooled, cross-sectional analysis of the 2016-2018 TAF (Transformed Medicaid Statistical Information System Analytic Files). We measured overall and state-level rates of SMM without blood transfusion for all individuals with Medicaid insurance with live births in 49 states and Washington, DC. We also examined SMM rates among non-Hispanic Black and non-Hispanic White individuals with Medicaid insurance in a subgroup of 27 states (and Washington, DC). We generated unadjusted rates of composite SMM and the individual indicators of SMM that comprised the composite. Rate diff

SUBMITTER: Admon LK 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10281794 | biostudies-literature | 2023 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature