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REPORTING FROM ACOG 2018


For the approximately 50% of patients who remained low risk through their pregnancies, care under the GHB model was significantly more likely to be assessed as adequate throughout pregnancy than for those patients on Medicaid (61.7% vs 35.5%, P = .001).

Patients who became high risk during prenatal care were no more likely to receive adequate care under one model than the other.

For high risk patients, delivery of adequate care happened only under the Medicaid care model. Numbers in this group were small; 7 of 100 GHB and 15 of 100 Medicaid patients entered prenatal care with high risk pregnancies. However, no high risk GHB patients received adequate care, while that standard was met for 80% of the Medicaid patients (P less than .001).

Adequacy of care was assessed using the Kotelchuck index for low-risk pregnancies; this model assumes care is “adequate” when 80% of the number of expected visits were attended by the woman receiving prenatal care. Additionally, care was deemed adequate for high-risk pregnancies if at least 80% of the number of expected ultrasound appointments were attended.

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