Maternal Health

Maternal health activity over the last 30 days is centering less on new federal VBC models and more on Medicaid-financed access, preventable mortality, and data infrastructure—especially rural health clinics, hospital-community partnerships, and stratified maternal mortality surveillance. For ACOs, Medicaid managed care plans, and health systems, the strategic implication is a continued shift toward accountable prenatal/postpartum population health: identifying hypertensive disorders, infection risk, rural access gaps, and racial disparities earlier, while tying interventions to avoidable ED use, severe maternal morbidity, and postpartum follow-up performance (rural access and maternal mortality; [preventable infection-related maternal mortality](https://connect.kff.org/e3t/Ctc/RB+113/c1ThL04/VWVzKQ667mH1W1BXCDS36GjWzW6P_DFt5NFZ7tN6ybcYq3qgz0W8wLKSR6lZ3kJW8zQc-P1N7275W2VhsVF12qRlhN7yN7m3Vlt9qW5h091H2XH01hW7w9qY34v1S7GW2qfmKg8j2twmN2BW1HSRvxFSW