Currently, pregnant Medicaid-eligible patients qualify for full benefits during their pregnancy and throughout the postpartum time frame, which is currently 60 days. If the coverage extension is approved, that time frame would increase by nearly 10 months.
, according to data from the March of Dimes and the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention.
Alabama’s proposed extension comes amid a push for Medicaid expansion nationwide. According to the Kaiser Family Foundation, Alabama is one of 12 U.S. states that have not adopted an expansion of Medicaid. Of all patients who died from pregnancy-related or associated causes, two-thirds died between 43 days and one years after giving birth. The report also stated that around 70% of deaths were considered preventable.
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