Rethinking Medicaid Coverage and Payment Policy to Promote High Value Care: The Case of Long-Acting Reversible Contraception

Women's Health Issues

Volumn 28, Issue 2, 2018, Pages 137-143

  Vela, Veronica X ^a   Patton, Elizabeth W ^b   Sanghavi, Darshak ^c   Wood, Susan F ^a,d   Shin, Peter ^a   Rosenbaum, Sara ^a  

^a GEORGE WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b BOSTON MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

^c OPTUM   (United States)

^d Jacobs Institute for Women's Health   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABORTION; ADULT; ARTICLE; CONTRACEPTIVE PREVALENCE SURVEY; DEVICE REMOVAL; FAMILY COUNSELING; FAMILY PLANNING; FEMALE; FOLLOW UP; HEALTH CARE ACCESS; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CARE DELIVERY; HEALTH CARE POLICY; HEALTH CARE QUALITY; HUMAN; LONG-ACTING REVERSIBLE CONTRACEPTION; MEDICAID; MIDDLE AGED; OUTPATIENT CARE; PUBLIC HEALTH MESSAGE; ECONOMICS; PREGNANCY; STATISTICS AND NUMERICAL DATA; UNITED STATES; UNPLANNED PREGNANCY; UTILIZATION; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; FAMILY PLANNING SERVICES; FEMALE; HEALTH EXPENDITURES; HEALTH POLICY; HEALTH SERVICES ACCESSIBILITY; HUMANS; LONG-ACTING REVERSIBLE CONTRACEPTION; MEDICAID; PREGNANCY; PREGNANCY, UNPLANNED; UNITED STATES; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 85040123124     PISSN: 10493867     EISSN: 18784321     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.whi.2017.10.013     Document Type: Article

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