Tuesday, September 25, 2007

Cesarean spike drives up Medicaid costs

Cesarean spike drives up Medicaid costs - Baby Basics

WASHINGTON, Aug. 15 (UPI) — About one-quarter of all children born in the United States — over 1 million — are delivered by Cesarean section, a new report says.

That marks a 38 percent increase from 1997, when about a fifth of all American babies were delivered by Cesarean, the study by Health and Human Services’ Agency for Healthcare Research and Quality found.

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