Studies Conducted at University of North Carolina on Managed Care Recently Reported (Modeling the Impact of Decreasing Waiting Period Length for Medicaid Sterilization: a Multi-site Cohort Study): Managed Care

2024 NOV 07 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Data detailed on Managed Care have been presented. According to news reporting out of Chapel Hill, North Carolina, by NewsRx editors, research stated, “To evaluate the impact of length of the Medicaid sterilization waiting period and postpartum permanent contraception fulfillment. Simulations from a retrospective cohort study estimating the potential increase in permanent contraception within 365 days of delivery.”

Financial support for this research came from Eunice Kennedy Shriver National Institute of Child Health and Human Development (NICHD) branch of the National Institutes of Health (NIH).

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from the University of North Carolina, “In our sample of 2076 patients, 61% achieved permanent contraception with the current waiting period of 30 days. With the waiting period hypothetically reduced to 15, 3, 1, and 0 days, 62.9%, 63.7%, 64.5%, and 75% patients, respectively, would have achieved permanent contraception.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “As potential Medicaid sterilization policy revisions are considered, understanding the impact on fulfillment rates is critical.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Modeling the Impact of Decreasing Waiting Period Length for Medicaid Sterilization: a Multi-site Cohort Study. Contraception, 2024;139. Contraception can be contacted at: Elsevier Science Inc, Ste 800, 230 Park Ave, New York, NY 10169, USA. (Elsevier - www.elsevier.com; Contraception - http://www.journals.elsevier.com/contraception/)

Our news journalists report that additional information may be obtained by contacting Kavita S. Arora, University of North Carolina, Dept. of Obstetrics and Gynecology, Chapel Hill, NC 27599, United States. Additional authors for this research include Kristen A. Berg, Douglas D. Gunzler, Emily Miller, Margaret Boozer, Tania Serna and Jennifer L. Bailit.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1016/j.contraception.2024.110531. 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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