Enhancing Global Billing Practices for Medicaid Pregnancy Services Policy Brief Now Publicly Available

The MED Policy Brief: Enhancing Global Billing Practices for Medicaid Pregnancy Services examines the use of global obstetric billing in 37 state Medicaid programs, a bundled payment model covering prenatal, delivery, and postpartum care. It identifies practical challenges, such as inadequate compensation for complex pregnancies, limited data transparency due to bundled coding, and care fragmentation from multiple providers, especially in rural areas. The brief highlights state Medicaid program strategies like rate increases and maternity kick payments to managed care organizations to improve access, alongside the use of certain billing codes to track prenatal and postpartum visits.