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Medi-Cal explained: maternity care
Medi-Cal explained: maternity care
- Collection:
- Health Policy and Services Research
- Series Title(s):
- Medi-Cal explained fact sheet
- Author(s):
- Simon, Melora, author
- Contributor(s):
- California HealthCare Foundation, issuing body.
- Publication:
- [Oakland, California] : California Health Care Foundation, September 2020
- Language(s):
- English
- Format:
- Text
- Subject(s):
- Medicaid -- economics
Prenatal Care -- economics
California
United States - Genre(s):
- Technical Report
- Abstract:
- Almost 500,000 babies are born every year in California--and the state's Medicaid program, Medi-Cal, plays an outsized role in covering those births. When people become pregnant, the thresholds for Medi-Cal eligibility change, so that people at higher incomes or without verification of immigration status may qualify for coverage. As a result, although Medi-Cal covers one in three Californians, it pays for nearly one in two of the state's births. Still, from a cost perspective, maternity care is a relatively small piece of all that Medi-Cal covers. An estimate using median spending per live birth--about $7,000--multiplied by the number of live births covered by Medi-Cal suggests that pregnant people1 make up 1.4% of Medi-Cal enrollees and account for 1.8% of spending. Note that this is an undercount, as it does not include spending on prenatal and postpartum care. By comparison, median spending per year per enrollee for childless adults is $4,700 and for people with disabilities about $19,600.
- Copyright:
- Reproduced with permission of the copyright holder. Further use of the material is subject to CC BY-NC-ND license. (More information)
- Extent:
- 1 online resource (1 PDF file (10 pages))
- Illustrations:
- Illustrations
- NLM Unique ID:
- 101775813 (See catalog record)
- Permanent Link:
- http://resource.nlm.nih.gov/101775813