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To assess the effects of offering government-supported prenatal care to pregnant, noncitizen women living in the U.S., investigators studied the outcomes of the Oregon Citizen/Alien Waived Emergent Medical Care program, which added prenatal care to standard Emergency Medicaid. Rollout of the program occurred between 2008 and 2013.
Medical claims data from 2003 through 2015 in Oregon showed that the addition of prenatal care to standard Emergency Medicaid services increased the mean number of prenatal visits per pregnancy from <1.0 to 8.5; increased maternal Rh immunization, glucose testing, and tetanus, diphtheria, and pertussis vaccination; lessened the likelihood of extremely low birth weight from 1.8 to 0.7 per 1000 births; and lowered de…