Findings from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU) Reveals New Findings on Managed Care (Geographic Variation In Effective Contraceptive Use Among Medicaid Recipients In 2018): Managed Care

2023 JUN 28 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Fresh data on Managed Care are presented in a new report. According to news originating from Portland, Oregon, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Medicaid is the largest payer for publicly funded contraception, serving millions of women across the United States. However, relatively little is known about the extent to which effective contraceptive services vary geographically for Medicaid recipients.”

Financial support for this research came from Arnold Ventures.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), “This study used national Medicaid claims to assess county-level variation in rates of provision of the most or moderately effective methods of contraception and provision of long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) across forty states and Washington, D.C., in 2018. County-level rates of most or moderately effective contraceptive use varied almost fourfold across states, from a low of 10.8 percent to a high of 44.4 percent. Rates of LARC provision varied almost tenfold, from a low of 1.0 percent to a high of 9.6 percent. Despite the fact that contraception is a core benefit within Medicaid, access and use vary substantially across and within states.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Medicaid agencies have a variety of options to ensure that people have access to a choice of the full range of contraceptive methods, including removing or loosening utilization controls, incorporating quality metrics or value -based payments into contraceptive services, and adjusting reimbursement to remove barriers to the clinical provision of LARC.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Geographic Variation In Effective Contraceptive Use Among Medicaid Recipients In 2018. Health Affairs, 2023;42(4):537-545. Health Affairs can be contacted at: Project Hope, 7500 Old Georgetown Rd, Ste 600, Bethesda, MD 20814-6133, USA.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Maria I. Rodriguez, Oregon Health & Science University (OHSU), Portland, OR 97239, United States. Additional authors for this research include Thomas H. A. Meath, Kelsey Watson, Ashley Daly, Kyle Tracy and K. John McConnell.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1377/hlthaff.2022.00992. 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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