Washington, DC — The health care challenges of pregnant women presently enrolled in Covered California were studied by Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University.
The study also included those pregnant women who are qualified for Medi-Cal like the Comprehensive Perinatal Services Program (CPSP). CPSP is by the way one of the most successful programs in the country that concentrates on providing enhanced urgent maternity care for expectant mothers who are facing risks related to their financial status–health, social and environmental risks.
Back in June of this year, the California Legislature approved a law intended to preserve access to the improved services of CPSP as part of the Medi-Cal Program for pregnant women needing urgent care and enrolled in the health plans of Covered California.
According to those who led the study, this is one of those situations wherein the need for solution to the problem of low income pregnant women is of vital importance. They even said that the legislators of the state could not have been clearer that high quality health care access is to be well-looked-after for those women who have high risk pregnancies enrolled in qualified urgent care clinic programs but don’t have standard maternity care. This refers to women with low incomes.
For better understanding of the health care challenges, the researchers of Milken Institute School of Public Health at the George Washington University compared the maternity care of two different programs and checked a number of areas ranging from Covered California and Medi-Cal rules and regulations to an array of operational program documents. The researchers went over the plan documents regarding maternity coverage offered through the health plans of Covered California and found that the program doesn’t offer solution to the health care needs of women exposed to social risks because of their financial statuses.
Based on the study conducted about the health care challenges of pregnant women enrolled in Covered California, the researchers suggested two possible solutions for the urgent care near me providers. The first one is to expand provider networks of the program to include CPSP with additional Medi-Cal payments. The other solution is to assure access to out-of-network coverage for those expectant mothers who want to use a CPSP provider.
The two possible solutions are consistent with standard insurance practice approaches to the health care challenges that need complete treatment from urgent care clinics that have highly trained professionals offering their services.
