Potential unintended pregnancies averted and cost savings associated with a revised Medicaid sterilization policy

S Borrero, N Zite, JE Potter, J Trussell, K Smith - Contraception, 2013 - Elsevier
Objective Medicaid sterilization policy, which includes a mandatory 30-day waiting period
between consent and the sterilization procedure, poses significant logistical barriers for
many women who desire publicly funded sterilization. Our goal was to estimate the number
of unintended pregnancies and the associated costs resulting from unfulfilled sterilization
requests due to Medicaid policy barriers. Study Design We constructed a cost-effectiveness
model from the health care payer perspective to determine the incremental cost over a 1 …
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