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Pregnancy And Delivery Costs In Georgia Medicaid: Pccm Versus Fee-For-Service Enrollees, Chery Raskind-Hood, Kathleen E. Adams, Ernest Alema-Mensah, Robert M. Mayberry
Pregnancy And Delivery Costs In Georgia Medicaid: Pccm Versus Fee-For-Service Enrollees, Chery Raskind-Hood, Kathleen E. Adams, Ernest Alema-Mensah, Robert M. Mayberry
Journal of the Georgia Public Health Association
This study examines the enrollment, resource utilization, and prenatal care cost patterns among pregnant black and white women in Georgia’s PCCM program, Georgia Better Health Care (GBHC), compared with those acquiring pregnancy and delivery services through Georgia’s Fee for Service (FFS) sector. Birth certificate data from 1998 were linked with Medicaid enrollment and claims data from 1997 and 1998 to construct a retrospective pregnancy history for each Medicaid woman giving birth in Georgia hospitals in 1998. Total payments for pregnancy and delivery services and on the total number of prenatal care visits were derived for each woman in the sample. …