Importance Together, preterm birth and low birth weight are the second-leading cause of
infant mortality in the US and occur disproportionately among Medicaid-paid births and …

An innovative strategy to help reduce the rate of unintended short interval pregnancies
(pregnancies that occur within 18 months of delivery) has been the introduction of immediate …

OBJECTIVE: To assess the rate of immediate postpartum long-acting reversible
contraceptive (LARC) use in a multihospital health care system 2 years before and after the …

Methods| We used inpatient Medicaid claims data for all childbirth hospitalizations for
women and adolescent girls aged 12 to 50 years between January 2010 and December …

In 2012 South Carolina's Medicaid program was the first state Medicaid program to separate
payment for the immediate postpartum placement of long-acting reversible contraception …

Background Previous assessment of statewide policies on long-acting reversible
contraception (LARC) indicate that an increasing number of states are implementing policies …

Objective We sought to evaluate the impact of insurance type on receipt of an interval
postpartum LARC, controlling for demographic and clinical factors. Study design This is a …

Objectives In the 1980s, policy makers in Mexico led a national family planning initiative
focused, in part, on postpartum IUD use. The transformative impact of this initiative is not well …

Objectives Provision of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) after delivery and prior
to discharge is safe and advantageous, yet few Texas hospitals offer this service. Our study …

Women are often highly motivated to obtain contraception during the immediate postpartum
period. However, not all women receive contraception, particularly long-acting reversible …