Medicaid Managed Care Partnerships to Improve Perinatal Outcomes

New York State's Prenatal Care Assistance Program, an enhanced care program based on public health principles, is in the process of being transformed into Medicaid managed care. The program described in this article, namely, a Medicaid managed care health maintenance organization and its intera...

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Published in:Journal of public health management and practice 1998-01, Vol.4 (1), p.82-88
Main Authors: Leppert, Phyllis C., Burtner, Caroline, Raines, Donald
Format: Article
Language:English
Subjects:
Adult
Community Health Services - organization & administration
Female
Health technology assessment
Humans
Interinstitutional Relations
Managed Care Programs - organization & administration
Medicaid - organization & administration
New York
Pregnancy
Pregnancy Outcome
Prenatal Care - economics
Prenatal Care - organization & administration
Prenatal Care - standards
Prenatal Care - statistics & numerical data
United States
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Summary:New York State's Prenatal Care Assistance Program, an enhanced care program based on public health principles, is in the process of being transformed into Medicaid managed care. The program described in this article, namely, a Medicaid managed care health maintenance organization and its interaction with one hospital's care of women, especially pregnant women, serves to illustrate how traditional public health values and managed care principles may be linked. This linkage is a starting point to developing a community's involvement in its own health, although it is too early from our experience to note a lasting effect on improved pregnancy outcomes.
ISSN:1078-4659
1550-5022
DOI:10.1097/00124784-199801000-00014