Catastrophic Health Expenditures With Pregnancy and Delivery in the United States.

ABSTRACT:

Objective

To describe prevalence, trends, and risk factors for catastrophic health expenditures in the year of delivery among birth parents (delivering people).

Methods

We conducted a retrospective, cross-sectional study of the Medical Expenditure Panel Survey from 2008-2016. We identified newborn birth parents and a 2:1 nearest-neighbor propensity-matched control cohort of nonpregnant reproductive-aged individuals, then assessed for catastrophic health expenditures (spending greater than 10% of family income) in the delivery year. We applied survey weights to extrapolate to the noninstitutionalized U.S. population and used the adjusted Wald test for significance testing. We compared risk of catastrophic health expenditures between birth parents and the control cohort and de

SUBMITTER: Peterson JA 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9124691 | biostudies-literature | 2022 Apr

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature