Medicaid reimbursement for immediate post-abortion provision of long-acting reversible contraception reduces both unintended pregnancies and health care expenditures

Contraception

Volumn 90, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 616-617

  Tsao, Tsu Yu ^a   Yunzal Butler, Cristina ^a   Sackoff, Judith ^a   Kaplan, Deborah ^a  

^a NEW YORK CITY DEPARTMENT OF HEALTH AND MENTAL HYGIENE   (United States)

Author keywords

Contraceptives; Cost savings; IUD; Reproductive health access

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; CONTRACEPTION; COST CONTROL; HEALTH CARE AVAILABILITY; HEALTH CARE COST; HUMAN; INTRAUTERINE CONTRACEPTIVE DEVICE; LETTER; LONG ACTING REVERSIBLE CONTRACEPTION; MEDICAID; REIMBURSEMENT; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; FEMALE; INDUCED ABORTION; PREGNANCY; UNWANTED PREGNANCY;

CONTRACEPTIVE AGENT; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE;

ABORTION, INDUCED; CONTRACEPTIVE AGENTS, FEMALE; FEMALE; HUMANS; INTRAUTERINE DEVICES; MEDROXYPROGESTERONE ACETATE; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNWANTED;

EID: 84911392405     PISSN: 00107824     EISSN: 18790518     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.contraception.2014.05.020     Document Type: Letter

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