Health Care Blog September 26, 2024
Bringing the Tools of Accountable Care to Maternity Care is a Great Idea – But This Sure Ain’t It
How desperate are we to find some kind of good news about the sorry state of maternity care in America? To find out, look no further than the current cover of no less venerable a health policy journal than Health Affairs.
With the headline “Medicaid ACO Improves Maternity Care” jumping off the cover of its September issue, we were expecting great things from the article “Massachusetts Medicaid ACO Program May Have Improved Care Quality for Pregnant and Postpartum Enrollees” (Megan B. Cole, et al.). The headline certainly promises some rare good news for all of us working to fix the national...