Use of prenatal care varies among people with employer-sponsored insurance
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- HCCI brief (Health Care Cost Institute)
- Author(s):
- Bloschichak, Aaron, author Hargraves, John, author Martin, Katie, author
- Contributor(s):
- Health Care Cost Institute, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Washington, D.C.] : Health Care Cost Institute, May 2020
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Facilities and Services Utilization Health Benefit Plans, Employee Prenatal Care United States
- Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Prenatal care leads to healthier pregnancy, healthier pregnant people, and healthier babies. In fact, birthing parents who receive prenatal care are three times less likely to deliver low birthweight babies, and the baby is five times more likely to survive delivery. To explore the kind of prenatal care pregnant people receive, we looked at utilization of two prototypical prenatal services--laboratory testing and ultrasounds. Using HCCI's unique dataset, a window into utilization of prenatal services among pregnant people who get insurance through an employer, we identify how many of those services are used, examine variation in use of those services, and assess how use of those services differed based on certain characteristics of the pregnant person. Looking at 25.8 million claims from 2009 through 2015, we find that pregnant people who had at least one visit averaged 8.5 laboratory test visits in the 10 months before delivery. Over the same period, they had an average of 6.7 ultrasound visits. Overall, pregnant people in this sample received a wide range of laboratory and ultrasound visits--from zero to more than 20.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (7 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101769578 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101769578