Postpartum Emergency Care Visits Among North Carolina Medicaid Beneficiaries, 2013-2019.

ABSTRACT: Objective: To describe the rate, timing, and primary diagnosis codes for emergency care visits up to 8 weeks (56 days) after live birth among Medicaid beneficiaries in North Carolina (NC). Materials and Methods: Using a linked dataset of Medicaid hospital claims and certificates of live birth, which included Medicaid beneficiaries who had a live-born infant in NC between January 1, 2013, and November 4, 2019, and met inclusion criteria (n = 321,879), we estimated week-specific visit rates for emergency care visits that did not result in hospital admission (outpatient) and those that did (inpatient). We assessed the 10 leading diagnosis code categories for emergency care visits and described the characteristics of people with 0, 1, or ≥2 outpatient emergen

SUBMITTER: Busse CE 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12491956 | biostudies-literature | 2024 Dec

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature