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Challenges and Strategies in Expanding Non-Traditional Preg...ed Services: Findings from a Survey of State Medicaid Programs
A growing number of states have added Medicaid coverage of non-traditional pregnancy-related care and services in recent years, such as doula services, lactation services, and home visiting progr...
KFF Examines Implications of Dobbs-era Abortion Bans and Restrictions for Miscarriage or Stillbirth
In a new brief, KFF explores how abortion bans and restrictions in the aftermath of the Supreme Court’s 2022 Dobbs decision can further complicate pregnancy loss. Pregnancy loss, which includ...
Dobbs-era Abortion Bans and Restrictions: Early Insights about Implications for Pregnancy Loss
This brief examines pregnancy loss management in the Dobbs era and explores how limiting or banning abortion may have negative consequences on people experiencing miscarriage or stillbirth.
Coverage of Sexual and Reproductive Health Services in Medicare
This brief describes Medicare coverage of sexual and reproductive health services, including contraception, and compares that coverage with private insurance plans and Medicaid. These benefits ar...
10 Key Facts About Women with Medicare
This brief examines 10 key facts about women with Medicare and presents new statistics on the health, economic and functional status of women with Medicare.
https://www.kff.org/medicare/issue-brief/10-key-facts-about-women-with-medicare/
What are the Implications of the Dobbs Ruling for Racial Disparities?
This analysis examines the implications of the Dobbs decision and state restrictions on abortion coverage for racial disparities in access to care and health outcomes.
At the Supreme Court: What’s at Stake for Emergency Abortion Care?
On April 24, the Supreme Court will hear Idaho v. United States—the second case this term involving access to abortion. In a new brief, KFF examines what’s at stake, focusing on whether the E...
Abortion Back at SCOTUS: Can States Ban Emergency Abortion Care for Pregnant Patients?
On April 24, 2024, the Supreme Court will hear the second case this term involving access to abortion: Idaho v. United States. At stake in this case is whether the Emergency Medical Treatment and...
Could the Comstock Act Be Used to Limit Abortion Access Nationwide?
In a new brief, KFF examines how the Comstock Act, an 1873 anti-vice law banning the mailing of obscene matter and articles, could be used by an anti-abortion presidential administration to sharp...
The Comstock Act: Implications for Abortion Care Nationwide
This brief provides background on the Comstock Act, reviews how it has been interpreted by the Biden Administration’s DOJ, and considers how it could be enforced by an administration that is ho...
One in Five Women of Reproductive Age in States with Aborti...They Know Has Had Difficulty Accessing an Abortion Since Dobbs
According to new KFF polling, in states with abortion bans, one in five (21%) women of reproductive age (18 to 49) and one in seven (14%) of all women say either they or someone they know has had...
Women’s Views of Abortion Access and Policies in the Dobbs Era: Insights From the KFF Health Tracking Poll
Our latest poll finds one in five women of reproductive age in states with abortion bans say either they or someone they personally know has had difficulty obtaining an abortion. Majorities of wo...
Variability in Payment Rates for Abortion Services Under Medicaid
This brief looks at Medicaid reimbursement rates for abortion services across states, including D&C and D&E procedures, and medication abortion. There is tremendous variability in how much states...
Medicaid Postpartum Coverage Extension Tracker
This page tracks recent state actions to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage, including approved and pending 1115 waivers, legislation that will require the state to seek federal approval through...
https://www.kff.org/medicaid/issue-brief/medicaid-postpartum-coverage-extension-tracker/
The Supreme Court, Medication Abortion, and the FDA: What’s at Stake?
In advance of oral arguments about access to medication abortion before the Supreme Court on March 26, KFF examines how a Court ruling for the plaintiffs would limit access to mifepristone blocki...
What’s at Stake for Access to Medication Abortion and the...preme Court Case FDA v. the Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine?
The Supreme Court will be hearing oral arguments for the case FDA v. Alliance for Hippocratic Medicine. This brief explains the issues at stake before the court and their implications for the dru...
The Availability and Use of Medication Abortion
This factsheet provides an overview of medication abortion, with a focus on federal and state regulations pertaining to its provision and coverage, and the role of the drug in self-managed aborti...
https://www.kff.org/womens-health-policy/fact-sheet/the-availability-and-use-of-medication-abortion/
Oral Contraceptive Pills: Access and Availability
This brief provides an overview of oral contraception, discusses private insurance and Medicaid coverage, and reviews strategies to promote and expand women’s access to oral contraceptives.
KFF Examines the Hyde Amendment and its Impact in States Without Abortion Bans
KFF takes a new look at the continued impact of the Hyde Amendment, the federal ban on payment for abortion services, in the wake of the Supreme Court’s Dobbs decision. At a moment when all eye...