Mystery Shopper Study of State Medicaid Coverage for Out-of-State Abortion Care

Hazar Khidir; Carlisle Topping; Vanessa K Dalton; Stacy Tessler Lindau; Arjun K Venkatesh

doi:10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.43569

Mystery Shopper Study of State Medicaid Coverage for Out-of-State Abortion Care

JAMA Netw Open. 2023 Nov 1;6(11):e2343569. doi: 10.1001/jamanetworkopen.2023.43569.

Authors

Hazar Khidir¹, Carlisle Topping², Vanessa K Dalton³, Stacy Tessler Lindau^{4

5}, Arjun K Venkatesh⁶

Affiliations

¹ National Clinician Scholars Program, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
² Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.
³ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Michigan, Ann Arbor.
⁴ Department of Obstetrics and Gynecology, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
⁵ Department of Medicine-Geriatrics and Palliative Medicine, University of Chicago, Chicago, Illinois.
⁶ Department of Emergency Medicine, Yale University School of Medicine, New Haven, Connecticut.

No abstract available

Plain language summary

This cross-sectional study uses a mystery shopper survey to examine variation in state Medicaid agency responses to coverage questions on out-of-state abortion care.

MeSH terms

Abortion, Legal*
Female
Humans
Medicaid*
Pregnancy
United States

Grants and funding

UL1 TR001863/TR/NCATS NIH HHS/United States