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- May 21, 2020
Building A Successful Program for Medi-Cal Coverage For Doula Care: Findings From A Survey of Doulas in California
Read moreThe National Health Law Program’s Doula Medicaid Project seeks to improve health outcomes for pregnant Medicaid enrollees by ensuring that all pregnant individuals enrolled in Medicaid who want access to a doula will have one. As part of this project, the National Health Law Program is proud to publish…
- August 20, 2019
Issue Brief: A Guide to Proposed and Enacted Legislation for Medicaid Coverage for Doula Care
Read moreAs maternal mortality is increasingly recognized as a national health crisis, especially for women of color, providing doula services to pregnant people is being upheld as a means of reducing high rates of maternal mortality in the U.S. Although we know that maternal mortality impacts Black women at every…
- February 6, 2019
State and Federal Legislative Proposals Relating to Doula Care
Amy Chen and Dhara Patel Fact SheetRead moreDhara Patel, an intern at the National Health Law Program, and Amy Chen, a senior attorney, provide a summary of major state and federal legislation introduced or enacted within the past 10 years that included funding for doula services, which is patient-centered care that is vital to combatting the…
- January 3, 2019
2017-2018 Federal Legislative Proposals Relating to Maternal and Infant Health and Mortality
Amy Chen, Dhara Patel, and Nicole Strombom Fact SheetRead moreMothers in the United States are dying during childbirth and the one year postpartum period at an alarming rate, and more frequently than mothers in similarly situated countries. The situation is particularly critical for Black women, who are three to four times more likely than non-Hispanic white women to…
- December 14, 2018
Routes to Success for Medicaid Coverage of Doula Care
Read moreRacism and racial bias in health care have helped contribute to what is now coming to be understood as a national crisis of maternal deaths for women of color, in particular Black and Indigenous/U.S. Indian women. The statistics are shocking: Black women are three to four times as likely…