Articles Tagged With: Medicaid
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Twelve-Month Contraceptive Prescriptions: Do They Make a Difference?
In this national retrospective cohort study of patients on Medicaid, states with 12-month hormonal contraceptive supply policies increased their 12-month dispensing by only 4.39% compared to the pre-policy period. The majority of this increase was contributed by the state of California.
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Medicaid Rules May Hinder Receiving Permanent Contraception Postpartum
People giving birth while receiving Medicaid have 56% lower odds of obtaining postpartum sterilization than people who gave birth while on private insurance, a new study shows.
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Foster Children Experience More Health Disparities Compared to Other Low-Income Youth
Foster youth are a vulnerable group that needs more attention and better care coordination when seen in hospitals and community provider settings. This population experiences health disparities when compared with other Medicaid-enrolled children, according to a recent study.
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Supreme Court Ruling Changes View of Wrongful Intent
A Supreme Court ruling is changing how a defendant’s knowledge of wrongdoing and intent to commit fraud is viewed in civil cases. The ruling has significant implications for healthcare cases in which the False Claims Act is involved.
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Prenatal Patient-Centered Contraceptive Counseling Is Important
New research suggests that pregnant patients who are interested in permanent contraception are offered information and counseling on this option late in their pregnancy, making it less likely they will access that option.
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Confidential Contraception for Minors Is Harder to Obtain than Ever
About half of U.S. states do not allow minors to obtain contraception without parental approval. For adolescents and teens younger than age 18 years, their only confidential option is to visit a Title X clinic, where a federal ruling from decades ago gives them a right to contraception and privacy. But how does this work in practice? Researchers say that it does not work very well — and it is only getting worse.
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The Pandemic Did Not Affect Single-Visit LARC Insertion
Adolescents who used public insurance and were seeing a non-OB/GYN provider had lower odds of a single-visit placement of long-acting reversible contraception, new research shows.
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Health System’s Case Managers Shorten Length of Stay for Complex Patients
Placing case managers in acute care and ambulatory settings to focus on transitions of complex patients could help shorten length of stay.
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Lawsuits Filed to Restore Women’s Reproductive Rights
South Carolina, Texas, and other states have consistently targeted Planned Parenthood clinics with lawsuits that fail and then are appealed repeatedly.
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Ever-Changing Legal Landscape Leaves Providers, Women, and Lawyers on Edge
Reproductive health lawyers nationwide are trying to help women maintain access to abortion and contraception, but the appeals and lawsuits are unending. Lawyers committed to reproductive health causes have filed lawsuits to maintain people’s access to contraception, reproductive healthcare, and abortion care.