Preventing Unintended Pregnancies: The Cost-Effectiveness of Three Methods of Emergency Contraception

• Report: Preventing Unintended Pregnancy: The Cost-Effectiveness of Three Methods of Emergency Contraception

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This report has been prepared for the Kaiser Commission on the Future of Medicaid as part of the Urban Institute’s ongoing analytic work for the Commission.

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This publication is a resource manual for health care providers to increase awareness and access to emergency contraception to women by making available information about emergency contraception, and how to use this option.

• Emergency Contraception: Resources for Providers

A Review of the Waiver Applications, Letters of Approval and Special Terms and Conditions

This background paper provides a summary of the key features of the Medicaid 1115 waivers that have been approved, proposed, implemented and conditionally rejected. This July version updates Medicaid 1115 Demonstration Waivers: Approved and Proposed Activities as of February 1995, as well as policy briefs on Medicaid waivers released in August and November of 1994.

• Report: Statewide Medicaid Managed Care Demonstrations under Section 115 of the Social Security Act:

• Report: Medicare/Medicaid Dual Eligibles: Fiscal And Social Responsibility For Vulnerable Populations

Reprinted from HEALTH AFFAIRS, Volume 16, Number 2 (March/April 1997)

This paper describes the early experience of the Health Insurance Plan of California (HIPC), a small-employer purchasing cooperative established in 1993.

• Report: Managed Competition In California’s Small-Group Insurance Market

The April 1997 edition of the Kaiser FamilyFoundation/Harvard Health News Index includes questions about major health issues covered in the news, including questions about Late-Term Abortions, the Morning After Pills and the Tobacco Industry. The survey also features public knowledge of when women think mammogram screenings should begin. The survey is based on a national random sample of 1,1015 Americans conducted April 4-8, 1997 which measures public knowledge of health stories covered by news media during the previous month. The Health News Index is designed to help the news media and people in the health field gain a better understanding of which health stories in the news Americans are following and what they understand about those health issues. Every two months Kaiser/Harvard issues a new index report.

This commentary reviews Medicaid’s role for low-income women and examines the implications Medicaid managed care on the delivery of health services to this vulnerable population. Today 40% of the Medicaid population, mostly poor women and their children, is enrolled in managed care. Medicaid agencies are hoping managed care will control spending and address longstanding problems with access to care. Low-income women have a number of characteristics that make them doubly vulnerable to have trouble accessing care and place them at high risk for health problems. Furthermore, many beneficiaries have historically experienced non-financial barriers to care under fee-for-service Medicaid. While many look to managed care to overcome these obstacles, the evidence suggests that it does not offer a great improvement over fee-for-service in terms of improved access or reduced long term costs for low-income women. For Medicaid managed care to realize its potential, it will be crucial to assure that financing is adequate, resources for monitoring and oversight are sufficient, and systems and benefits are responsive to the complex and diverse health care needs of low-income women.

This article, written by Alina Salganicoff, appeared in the Journal of the American Medical Women’s Association, Vol.52, no.2, 1997.

• Fact Sheet: Facts About Emergency Contraception