Differences in Self-Reported and Billed Postpartum Visits Among Medicaid-Insured Individuals.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

State Medicaid programs have recently implemented several policies to improve access to health care during the postpartum period. Understanding whether these policies are succeeding will require accurate measurement of postpartum visit use over time and across states; however, current estimates of use vary substantially between data sources.

Objectives

To examine disagreement between postpartum visit use reported in the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System (PRAMS) and Medicaid claims and assess whether insurance transitions from Medicaid at the time of childbirth to other insurance types after delivery are associated with the degree of disagreement.

Design, setting, and participants

This cross-sectional study was conducted among individuals in South

SUBMITTER: Bellerose M 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10753392 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature