Association of the Mental Health Parity and Addiction Equity Act and the Affordable Care Act on severe maternal morbidity.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

This study aimed to characterize the association between Mental Health Parity and the Affordable Care Act and rates of severe maternal morbidity among a population of commercially insured individuals, including individuals with and without perinatal mood and anxiety disorders.

Methods

We conducted a serial, cross-sectional analysis of individuals with an inpatient delivery in Optum's Clinformatics® Data Mart Database from 2008 to 2021. We applied an interrupted time series model with autoregressive integrated moving average to evaluate changes in quarterly severe maternal morbidity rates.

Results

Adjusted severe maternal morbidity rates declined from 167.2 (95%CI: [152.6, 181.9]) per 10,000 deliveries in the first quarter of 2008 to 98.2 (95%CI: [83.5, 112.8

SUBMITTER: Hall SV 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC10897524 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Nov-Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature