Finally, Medicaid covers critical health care services during the postpartum period. In the past 20 years, inequities in maternal health care have grown, disproportionately affecting low-income women and women of color. In short, Medicaid and their contracted health plans have dollars to spend and an imperative to improve women’s reproductive health care access and outcomes and will pay for innovative delivery solutions that can achieve these aims. ; see also “Enhancing Access to Medicaid Family Planning Program Services: State-Level Best Practices” (June 8, 2023), available at https://www.manatt.com/insights/newsletters/health-highlights/enhancing-access-to-medicaid-family-planning-progr. 16 Guttmacher Institute, Why Protecting Medicaid Means Protecting Sexual and Reproductive Health (March 9, 2017), available at https://www.guttmacher.org/gpr/2017/03/why-protecting-medicaid-means-protecting-sexual-and-reproductive-health.

Source: Forbes August 11, 2023 18:05 UTC