Modern Healthcare

By: Steven Johnson

Expanded access to Medicaid was associated with 1.6 fewer maternal deaths per 100,000 women compared with states that didn’t expand the program, according to a new study. The infant death rate also fell more dramatically in Medicaid expansion states—by more than 50% from 2010 to 2016. Those findings were in a report released Wednesday by the Georgetown University Center for Children and Families. “There’s no one answer to improve our care for women of childbearing age and mothers,” said report co-author Adam Searing, associate professor of the practice at Georgetown’s Center for Children and Families. “But we do have a clear place where we can start and that really is expanding Medicaid coverage in the states that haven’t yet expanded and maintaining good Medicaid coverage in the states that have.”

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