Patterns of Health Insurance Coverage Around the Time of Pregnancy Among Women With Live-Born Infants--Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 29 States, 2009.

Abstract

The article summarizes points from the report "Patterns of Health Insurance Coverage Around the Time of Pregnancy Among Women with Live-Born Infants-Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 29 States, 2009" published in 2015 in the "MMWR Surveillance Summaries" by the U.S. Centers for Disease Control and Prevention. It comments on the Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System which used weighted data from 29 states in calculating confidence intervals and prevalence estimates. It found around a third of women were transitioning between health insurance coverage types or lacked health insurance.