FACT SHEET | Currently, 24 million women are enrolled in Medicaid: 56% are in their reproductive years and over half are women of color. Beyond maternity care, Medicaid ensures access to preventive services like cancer and chronic disease screenings, family planning,...
ISSUE BRIEF | The new Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) model is a crucial opportunity to improve outcomes for birthing people, especially those most affected by the maternal health crisis.
The mental health of Black moms is in crisis. This infographic illustrates why and what needs to happen.
ISSUE BRIEF | The Supreme Court’s decision in Dobbs v. Jackson Women’s Health Organization, and extreme abortion bans and restrictions passed by states even prior to then, have had far reaching impacts on health care providers and the communities they care for.
REPORT | Health care payment reform – and especially alternative payment models (APMs) that tie payment to performance – are widely believed to be an important lever for achieving crucial quality improvements.
Methodology and Summaries of Maternity Care Episode Payment and Maternity Care Home Programs
FACT SHEET | The Transforming Maternal Health (TMaH) Model will be a decade-long pilot that aims to transform how maternity care is provided, who provides it, and how to pay for care that childbearing families need and want.
REPORT | The reproductive health of Black women has long been compromised by interpersonal, institutional, and structural racism. In addition to contending with social and economic drivers of poor health that undermine Black Americans, they have experienced...
REPORT | Reproductive Healthcare Providers that are Raising the Bar for their Patients and Communities
Raising the Bar | This guidance document outlines recommendations health plans can use to raise the bar for maternal health equity and excellence as advocates and investors.
Raising the Bar | This guidance document outlines recommendations health plans can use to raise the bar for maternal health equity and excellence as a community partner.
Raising the Bar | This document focuses on appropriate steps to support efforts to seek the following Medicaid reimbursement policies that are oriented toward supporting birthing in community settings.
Raising the Bar | This guidance document outlines recommendations health plans can use to raise the bar for maternal health equity and excellence as employers.
Raising the Bar | This guidance document outlines recommendations for ways health plans can raise the bar for maternal health equity and excellence as provider partners.
Raising the Bar | Birth doulas provide emotional support, comfort measures, information, and advocacy for achieving the birthing person's goals during labor and birth.
Raising the Bar | The midwifery model is based on investing the time needed to build a trusted relationship with the birthing person and help them build confidence.
Raising the Bar | This operational guidance provides core resources to enable maternity services to identify appropriate screening tools, incorporate them into systems and workflows, and identify and support the use of needed services.
Letter to Congress urging action to end surprise billing and improve maternal health.
Bipartisan legislation was enacted in the 115th Congress to support maternal mortality review committees and increase the supply of maternal health providers in underserved areas.
This issue brief highlights results from Asian and Pacific Islander (API) women survey respondents. It underscores many social and economic issues affecting pregnant and parenting API women, including their mental health, experiences with discrimination, postpartum...
