Maternity Care Payment

There are a variety of payment alternatives that can align incentives for providers and hospitals to adhere to evidence-based practices that improve outcomes for both infants and mothers and decrease the growth in health care spending for maternity care services. 

CPR has put together an Action Brief for health care purchasers that provides both an overview of the payment reform opportunity and steps purchasers can take to begin implementation.  In addition, CPR has crafted health plan request for information (RFI) questions on the topic that purchasers can use as part of their health plan sourcing process, and model contract language that purchasers can use with their contracted plans. These documents are also available on the right side of this page.