Impact of financial incentives for prenatal care on birth outcomes and spending.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To evaluate the impact of offering US$100 each to patients and their obstetricians or midwives for timely and comprehensive prenatal care on low birth weight, neonatal intensive care admissions, and total pediatric health care spending in the first year of life.

Data sources/study setting

Claims and enrollment profiles of the predominantly low-income and Hispanic participants of a union-sponsored, health insurance plan from 1998 to 2001.

Study design

Panel data analysis of outcomes and spending for participants and nonparticipants using instrumental variables to account for selection bias. DATA COLLECTION/ABSTRACTION METHODS: Data provided were analyzed using t-tests and chi-squared tests to compare maternal characteristics and birth outcomes for incentive p

SUBMITTER: Rosenthal MB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC2754543 | biostudies-literature | 2009 Oct

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature