Impact of Medicaid expansion in Oregon on access to prenatal care
Preventive Medicine Dec 14, 2020
Harvey SM, Oakley LP, Gibbs SE, et al. - Considering that reproductive health improves in correlation with the Medicaid expansion under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (ACA) as it allows low-income women access to healthcare before and early in pregnancy, researchers here examined how Oregon's Medicaid expansion affected prenatal care. For this study, live births in Oregon from 2012 to 2015 were included and individually-linked birth certificate and Medicaid eligibility data were used. Per findings, there was an increase in pre-pregnancy Medicaid enrollment following Medicaid expansion, which subsequently resulted in increase in receipt of timely and adequate prenatal care
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