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Title: New Mothers’ Coverage Improved during the Public Health Emergency
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Publication Year: 2023
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Abstract: With high and growing rates of maternal mortality and most maternal deaths occurring following delivery, increasing attention is being paid to health insurance coverage and health care during the postpartum period (Hoyert 2023; Petersen et al. 2019; Haley et al. 2021a; Johnston et al. 2021; Rodin et al. 2019; Burroughs et al. 2021; Haley et al. 2022). Medicaid may have a particularly important role, given that in 2021, Medicaid financed more than 4 in 10 births in the United States.1 Medicaid eligibility is more generous for pregnant people than for other nonelderly adults, but this coverage historically expired just 60 days after the end of pregnancy (Haley et al. 2021a). However, Congress enacted the Families First Coronavirus Response Act (FFCRA) in March 2020, which established a continuous coverage requirement mandating states not disenroll people from Medicaid, including those with pregnancy-related coverage, during the public health emergency (PHE).2 The policy resulted in historic growth in Medicaid enrollment, reaching 93.9 million by March 2023 with the pregnancy-related coverage pathway experiencing the highest enrollment growth.
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Authors: Johnston, Emily M.; Haley, Jennifer M.; Long, Julia; Kenney, Genevieve M.
Publisher: Urban Institute
Data Collections: IPUMS USA
Topics: Fertility and Mortality, Health, Population Health and Health Systems, Reproductive and Sexual Health
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