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Massachusetts' innovative policy approach to expanding contraceptive options in primary care

Ciccariello, Chloe
Prakash-Zawisza, Viveka R
Pace, Lydia E
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2023-08-24
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As health systems pivot toward value-based care and as the reversal of Roe vs Wade has significantly decreased access to abortion care in the United States, contraception is increasingly recognized as a high-value health service. However, the United States has a long and troubling history of using contraceptive policies and practices, including forced sterilization, to limit the reproductive rights of people of color and individuals with disabilities. We hope to highlight an innovative program developed by Massachusetts' Medicaid program, which seeks to expand access to long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) within primary care clinics in a way that promotes both value and reproductive justice. This program provides financial incentives for clinics that serve patients with Medicaid to offer LARC to all patients within the primary care space. Unlike LARC programs that exclusively target patients with Medicaid insurance and provide incentivizes based on number of LARC insertions, this policy has the potential to "lift all boats" and expand access to LARC for all patients regardless of payer. Careful evaluation of this program will be necessary to ensure that the intended outcomes-to increase access to LARC, promote reproductive justice, and deliver value to the health system-are achieved.

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Ciccariello C, Prakash-Zawisza VR, Pace LE. Massachusetts' innovative policy approach to expanding contraceptive options in primary care. Health Aff Sch. 2023 Aug 24;1(3):qxad035. doi: 10.1093/haschl/qxad035. PMID: 38756677; PMCID: PMC10986274.

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10.1093/haschl/qxad035
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© The Author(s) 2023. Published by Oxford University Press on behalf of Project HOPE - The People-To-People Health Foundation, Inc. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.