Study Findings on Managed Care Are Outlined in Reports from East Carolina University (Continuity of Health Insurance Coverage and Choice of Contraception Method): Managed Care

2024 MAY 13 (NewsRx) -- By a News Reporter-Staff News Editor at Insurance Daily News -- Researchers detail new data in Managed Care. According to news originating from Greenville, North Carolina, by NewsRx correspondents, research stated, “To evaluate whether part-year or year-round uninsurance is associated with reduced likelihood of using prescription contraception methods rather than using nonprescription methods or using no contraceptive methods. We identified nonpregnant and sexually active female respondents participating in the National Longitudinal Survey of Youth, 1997 cohort between 2007 and 2019.”

Our news journalists obtained a quote from the research from East Carolina University, “At each interview, we classified the contraceptive method used most frequently as prescription, nonprescription, or none, and used mixed-effects multinomial logistic regression to predict contraceptive method based on health insurance coverage over the past year (classified as continuous private, continuous public, part-year uninsured, or year-round uninsured). Our sample included 3,738 respondents and 18,678 observations (person-years). In the most recent interview, 35% of respondents used prescription contraception, 16% used nonprescription methods only, and 49% used no method. On multivariable analysis using all available years of data, respondents with part-year uninsurance were 20% less likely to use prescription rather than nonprescription methods, as compared to respondents with continuous private insurance (95% confidence interval: -31%, -6%; p = 0.007), but did not differ on the likelihood of using prescription methods rather than no method. Part-year uninsurance was associated with lower use of prescription contraceptive methods rather than nonprescription methods when compared with continuous private insurance coverage. Use of prescription contraceptives was lowest among people with year-round uninsurance.”

According to the news editors, the research concluded: “Policy efforts ensuring continuous insurance coverage with greater flexibility of eligibility and enrollment periods may promote greater access to prescription contraceptives.”

This research has been peer-reviewed.

For more information on this research see: Continuity of Health Insurance Coverage and Choice of Contraception Method. Journal of Women s Health, 2024. Journal of Women s Health can be contacted at: Mary Ann Liebert, Inc, 140 Huguenot Street, 3RD Fl, New Rochelle, NY 10801, USA.

The news correspondents report that additional information may be obtained from Samantha Malone, East Carolina University, Brody School of Medicine, 600 Moye Blvd, Greenville, NC 27834, United States. Additional authors for this research include Leya Essex, Adrianne Frech, Kerianne Crockett and Dmitry Tumin.

The direct object identifier (DOI) for that additional information is: https://doi.org/10.1089/jwh.2023.0824. 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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