Health Populi July 16, 2021
Cain Brothers is a 100+ year old financial services firm with a strong health care experience, now part of KeyBanc. A recent “House Calls” memo and podcast from two company analysts detailed the state of Medicaid, Motherhood and America’s Future: Giving Birth to Better Maternity Outcomes.
Christian Pesci and David Johnson’s in-depth discussion detailed their bottom-line that, “maternity care in the U.S. is in crisis but poised for rapid evolution…(recognizing) that an uncoordinated system with misaligned incentives harms too many individuals, families, and communities.”
They lay out the crisis as follows:
- Medicaid funds nearly one-half of births in the U.S.
- The U.S. maternal mortality rate is nearly twice that of all developed countries.
- Mothers enrolled in Medicaid are under-served,...