Postpartum Medicaid Eligibility Expansions and Postpartum Health Measures.

ABSTRACT: Maternal mortality and morbidity in the United States are high compared with those in similar countries, and racial/ethnic disparities exist, with many of these events occurring in the later postpartum period. Proposed federal and recently enacted state policy interventions extend pregnancy Medicaid from covering 60 days to a full year postpartum. This study estimates the association between maintaining Medicaid eligibility in the later postpartum period (relative to only having pregnancy Medicaid eligibility) with postpartum checkup attendance and depressive symptoms using regression analysis, overall and stratified by race/ethnicity. People with postpartum Medicaid eligibility were 1.0%-1.4% more likely to attend a postpartum checkup relative to those with only pregnancy Medicaid eligibi

SUBMITTER: Hettinger K 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9969880 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Feb

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature