Data on Managed Care Reported by Researchers at Brown University (Perinatal Health Insurance and Health Care Use By Immigration Status In 6 Us States, 2020-22): Managed Care

2024 DEC 09 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Investigators discuss new findings in Managed Care. According to news reporting from Providence, Rhode Island, by NewsRx journalists, research stated, “Some noncitizens in the US are not eligible for public health insurance, potentially reducing access to preconception, prenatal, and postpartum care. We compared insurance coverage and health care use from the preconception period to the postpartum period by immigration status, using representative survey data collected from six US states between 2020 and 2022.”

Funders for this research include Columbia World Projects, National Institutes of Health (NIH) - USA.

The news correspondents obtained a quote from the research from Brown University, “Respondents were surveyed at two to six months postpartum and at twelve to fourteen months postpartum. Immigration status was classified in three categories: US citizen, permanent resident, and people who were neither citizens nor permanent residents. Compared with US citizens, fewer permanent residents had late postpartum insurance coverage, but coverage rates were otherwise similar. Coverage was lower among noncitizens/non-permanent residents compared with US citizens at every time point except pregnancy, with the largest differences at preconception (50.5 percent and 90.5 percent, respectively) and late postpartum (53.2 percent and 95.1 percent, respectively). Fewer permanent residents had health care visits before pregnancy compared with US citizens, but health care use was otherwise similar. Noncitizens/non-permanent residents had substantially lower rates of preconception health care, early and adequate prenatal care, postpartum visits, and having a usual source of care at one year postpartum.”

According to the news reporters, the research concluded: “Expansion of public insurance to cover immigrants is needed to reduce large inequities in perinatal health insurance and health care use by immigration status.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Perinatal Health Insurance and Health Care Use By Immigration Status In 6 Us States, 2020-22. Health Affairs, 2024;43(11):1528-1537. Health Affairs can be contacted at: Project Hope, 7500 Old Georgetown Rd, Ste 600, Bethesda, MD 20814-6133, USA.

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Maria W. Steenland, Brown University, Providence, RI 02912, United States.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2024.00204. This DOI is a link to an online electronic document that is either free or for purchase, and can be your direct source for a journal article and its citation.

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