New Findings in Managed Care Described from University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine (Understanding Postpartum Hospital Use Among Birthing People With Medicaid Insurance): Managed Care

2026 JAN 29 (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 Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “Individuals with Medicaid insurance are more likely to have pregnancy-related complications than individuals with private insurance, but previous research has not described postpartum hospital use in the population of patients with Medicaid. Using Medicaid claims data, we analyzed time to the first instance of postpartum hospital use during the postpartum year using Kaplan-Meier curves and described causes of postpartum hospital use at different postpartum windows.”

Financial support for this research came from National Institute on Minority Health and Health Disparities.

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine, “Among 1,626,056 birthing individuals, 20.7% had postpartum hospital use at 1 year postpartum. We found a higher proportion of postpartum hospital use after the typical 30-day postpartum analysis window than within the initial 30 days postpartum, with causes of postpartum hospital use shifting away from delivery-related causes over time.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “This highlights the need to better understand postpartum hospital use in the population of patients with Medicaid insurance, because 40% of births in the United States occur in this population.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Understanding Postpartum Hospital Use Among Birthing People With Medicaid Insurance. Obstetrics & Gynecology, 2026.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Sarah M. Lindley, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Pennsylvania Perelman School of Medicine and the Division of Neonatology, Dept. of Pediatrics, Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. Additional authors for this research include Kimberly B. Glazer, Teresa Janevic, Molly Passarella, Angelina Malenda, Natalia N. Egorova, Jennifer Zeitlin, Scott A. Lorch and Elizabeth A. Howell.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1097/aog.0000000000006170. 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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