Table 3.

Number and proportion of infants born in NM with a Medicaid birth claim that have a CARA-qualifying diagnosis, by region, 2020–2021

Hospital region	Infants with a plan of safe care	Infants with a CARA-qualifying diagnosis at the birth hospitalization	Proportion of eligible infants with a plan of safe care (%)	Total NM occurrent, resident births	2020 NM occurrent, resident births	2021 NM occurrent, resident births	No. of birthing facilities	Medicaid occurrent, resident 2020–2021 births
Metro	870	1351	64.4	17,473	8744	8729	5	10,186
Northeast	146	270	54.1	4600	2301	2299	7	1940
Northwest	80	164	48.8	4240	2249	1991	3	1980
Southeast	69	175	39.4	6222	3249	2973	7	3488
Southwest	207	339	61.1	6928	3544	3384	6	4058
Overall	1372	2299	59.7	39464	20088	19,376	28	21,652a

^aThe NM occurrent, resident birth denominator is from the Vital Records database, this differs from the denominator calculated directly from Medicaid claims