Cov­er­age of Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy and HealthyS­teps Ser­vices: The Mary­land Depart­ment of Health announced that Mary­land Med­ic­aid will pro­vide addi­tion­al reim­burse­ment to rec­og­nized prac­tices for Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy and HealthyS­teps ser­vices. (Decem­ber 2022).

Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy- Group Pre­na­tal Care: Lis­ten for the full impact, tar­get­ed inter­views, research and info about cur­rent imple­men­ta­tion so you can see if this pol­i­cy might be right for your state (Sep­tem­ber 2019).

Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy- Group Pre­na­tal Care: Lis­ten to CHI’s pod­cast episode on Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy and address the impact, state imple­men­ta­tion strate­gies, and research sup­port­ing cen­ter­ing (Octo­ber 2019).

New Jer­sey Expands Med­ic­aid Pro­gram to Include Cov­er­age for Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy® to Improve Mater­nal Health and Birth Out­comes: Read more on how the Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy mod­el of group pre­na­tal care is now cov­ered under New Jersey’s expand­ed Med­ic­aid pro­gram as a result of recent leg­is­la­tion that includes FQHCs and CHCs (August 2019).

Cov­er­age for Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy Group Pre­na­tal Care: The South Car­oli­na Depart­ment of Health and Human Ser­vices (SCD­HHS) updat­ed its billing and reim­burse­ment for Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy (May 2017).

Cen­ter­ing Health­care Bib­li­og­ra­phy I Anno­tat­ed Bib­li­og­ra­phy: Cen­ter­ing research indi­cates dra­mat­ic improve­ments in mater­nal child health out­comes, enhanc­ing the field’s goals for cost sav­ings and bet­ter health. Stay up-to-date with cur­rent Cen­ter­ing research with over 150 pub­lished stud­ies and peer-reviewed arti­cles (June 2023 I Decem­ber 2022).

Cen­ter­ing Saves Lives & Mon­ey: Learn about how Cen­ter­ing can trans­form health­care and save lives and mon­ey (2021)

Pay­ment Mod­els to Sup­port Sus­tain­abil­i­ty of Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy in Fed­er­al­ly Qual­i­fied Health Cen­ters: Learn how sup­port­ing the imple­men­ta­tion of Cen­ter­ing at FQHCs can lead to bet­ter health out­comes, high­er patient sat­is­fac­tion, and a reduc­tion in health dis­par­i­ties (July 2021).

Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy- Med­ic­aid Enhanced Pay­ment for Group Pre­na­tal Care: Pol­i­cy devel­op­ment sum­ma­ry from AMCHP on enhanced pay­ment for evi­dence-based group pre­na­tal care in Mary­land, New Jer­sey, Ohio, South Car­oli­na, and Texas (2019).

Align­ing Val­ue-Based Pay­ment with the Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy Group Pre­na­tal Care Mod­el: Strate­gies to sus­tain a suc­cess­ful mod­el of pre­na­tal care and how align­ing emerg­ing val­ue-based pay­ment mod­els reward providers for bet­ter out­comes (May 2019).

How Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy Can Sup­port Birth Equi­ty: An issue brief on CenteringPregnancy’s role as one of the mod­els sup­port­ing birth equity,l that is rela­tion­ship-cen­tered, holis­tic in its atten­tion to non-med­ical aspects of health and well­be­ing, pro­vides time and oppor­tu­ni­ty for empow­er­ing group dis­cus­sion, and cre­ates a sup­port­ive envi­ron­ment that fos­ters trust (Octo­ber 2019).

Tes­ti­mo­ny to Com­mit­tee on Health, Coun­cil of the Dis­trict of Colum­bia: Writ­ten tes­ti­mo­ny from CHI on sup­port­ing the Win­dow Blind Safe­ty Noti­fi­ca­tion Act of 2019 (Bill 23 – 0322), the Peri­na­tal Health Work­er Train­ing Access Act of 2019 (Bill 23 – 0341), and the Mater­nal Health Care Improve­ment and Expan­sion Act of 2019 (Bill 23 – 0362) (Decem­ber 2019).

Advanc­ing Healthy Births- An Equi­ty Plan for Michi­gan Fam­i­lies & Com­mu­ni­ties: A plan to work towards an equi­table Michi­gan from the Michi­gan Depart­ment of Health and Human Ser­vices high­light­ing the impor­tance of expand­ing access and equi­table reim­burse­ment, and expand­ed birthing care team through group pre­na­tal mod­els such as Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy. (Octo­ber 2023)

North Car­oli­na Child Fatal­i­ty Task Force Annu­al Report: This report con­tains rec­om­men­da­tions for laws and state fund­ing for pre­ven­tion strate­gies that will save children’s lives and sup­port their well-being and safe­ty. One rec­om­men­da­tion in the report is to fund group pre­na­tal care vis­its, fund­ing for broad doula cov­er­age, and fund­ing to increase the mater­ni­ty provider reim­burse­ment for bun­dled pay­ments. Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy is high­light­ed as one of the most stud­ied mod­els of group care. (Feb­ru­ary 2023)

Ensur­ing Healthy Births Through Pre­na­tal Sup­port: The Cen­ter for Amer­i­can Progress (CAP) high­lights the impor­tance of pro­vid­ing group pre­na­tal care and sup­port to improve birth out­comes through pro­grams such as, Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy, The JJ Way, and Health­Con­nect One Com­mu­ni­ty-Based Doula Pro­gram. (Jan­u­ary 2020)

Racism Cre­at­ed Inequities in Mater­nal and Child Health, Even Before Birth: ZERO TO THREE’S Think Babi­esTM rec­om­men­da­tions for pol­i­cy­mak­ers and prac­ti­tion­ers to pro­mote equi­ty and improve mater­nal and child health. (May 2021)

Mater­nal and Child Health Update 2020: The Nation­al Gov­er­nors Asso­ci­a­tion Cen­ter for Best Prac­tices’ (NGA Cen­ter) Mater­nal and Child Health Update (MCH Update) sur­vey results from senior state and ter­ri­to­r­i­al health offi­cials regard­ing MCH pol­i­cy top­ics. This update includes the impor­tance for group pre­na­tal care mod­els such as Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy. (2020)

Fos­ter­ing Social and Emo­tion­al Health through Pedi­atric Pri­ma­ry Care: Com­mon Threads to Trans­form Every­day Prac­tice and Sys­tems: Find­ings from the Cen­ter for the Study of Social Pol­i­cy (CSSP) qual­i­ta­tive pro­gram analy­sis on the com­mon prac­tices used by inno­v­a­tive pri­ma­ry care sites imple­ment­ing a vari­ety of evi­dence-sup­port­ed pro­grams such as Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy and Cen­ter­ing­Par­ent­ing. (Octo­ber 2019)

2024 Pre­na­tal-to‑3 State Pol­i­cy Roadmap: This roadmap guides state lead­ers on the most effec­tive invest­ment to ensure all chil­dren thrive from the start includ­ing strate­gies such as Group Pre­na­tal Care which high­lights Cen­ter­ing­Preg­nan­cy as the most promi­nent mod­el of group pre­na­tal care. (Octo­ber 2024)

Pre­na­tal-to‑3 State Pol­i­cy Lever Check­list: Group Pre­na­tal Care: This check­list cov­ers the fol­low­ing pol­i­cy levers states may con­sid­er to help max­i­mize the reach and effec­tive­ness of group pre­na­tal care. (Sep­tem­ber 2023)