A comparison of Medicaid and non-Medicaid obstetrical care in California.
Year: 1991
Type: article
Study design: Observational Study
Abstract: The use of prenatal care and rates of low birth weight were examined among four groups of women who delivered in California in October 1983. Medicaid paid for the deliveries of two groups, and two groups were not so covered. The analyses suggest that longer Medicaid enrollment improved the use of prenatal care. The association between prenatal care and birth weight was less clear. For women under Medicaid, measures of infant and maternal morbidity, hospital characteristics, and Medicaid eligibility were all statistically related to charges, payments, and length of stay for the delivery hospitalization.
Source: PubMed Central
Authors: E M Howell, E J Herz, R H Wang, M B Hirsch
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: green
OpenAlex ID: W2181539741