TABLE 11.
Prevalence of private insurance or Medicaid at delivery among women with unstable insurance who had Medicaid coverage the month before pregnancy, by selected maternal characteristics — Pregnancy Risk Assessment Monitoring System, 29 states,* 2009
| Insurance at delivery | ||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Private | Medicaid | |||||
| Characteristics | No.† | %§ | (95% CI) | No. | % | (95% CI) |
| Age (yrs) | ||||||
| ≤19 | 21 | 16.3 | (10.1–22.4) | 23 | 30.5 | (1.9–59.1) |
| 20–25 | 58 | 47.1 | (35.2–58.9) | 39 | 39.1 | (10.5–67.8) |
| 26–34 | 58 | 31.1 | (20.9–41.3) | 34 | 26.5 | (13.8–39.1) |
| ≥35 | 11 | 5.6 | (0.4–10.7) | —¶ | — | — |
| Race/Ethnicity | ||||||
| White, non-Hispanic | 65 | 61.9 | (53.1–70.6) | 15 | 20.3 | (7.8–32.8) |
| Black, non-Hispanic | 36 | 21.5 | (15.9–27.2) | 32 | 29.0 | (17.5–40.6) |
| Hispanic | 16 | 6.6 | (4.9–8.3) | 33 | 45.3 | (41.1–49.4) |
| American Indian/Alaska Native | 9 | 1.2 | (1.0–1.5) | 9 | 1.6 | (1.3–2.0) |
| Other | 20 | 8.8 | (1.7–15.9) | 8 | 3.7 | (1.2–6.3) |
| Education | ||||||
| <High school | 39 | 30.1 | (23.9–36.3) | 48 | 67.0 | (56.2–77.8) |
| High school | 47 | 25.2 | (13.3–37.0) | 27 | 18.7 | (13.3–24.1) |
| >High school | 61 | 44.8 | (32.0–57.6) | 23 | 14.3 | (4.7–23.8) |
| Marital status | ||||||
| Married | 70 | 46.0 | (37.0–54.9) | 34 | 28.8 | (17.9–39.7) |
| Not married | 78 | 54.0 | (45.1–63.0) | 66 | 71.2 | (60.3–82.1) |
| Federal poverty level | ||||||
| ≤200% | 109 | 72.3 | (59.7–84.8) | 81 | 96.9 | (93.2–100.0) |
| >200% | 25 | 27.7 | (15.2–40.3) | 6 | 3.1 | (0.0–6.8) |
| Prenatal care initiation | ||||||
| First trimester | 117 | 83.9 | (75.6–92.2) | 61 | 57.6 | (25.7–89.5) |
| Later | 26 | 16.1 | (7.8–24.4) | 35 | 42.4 | (10.5–74.3) |
| Delivery location | ||||||
| Hospital | 147 | 100.0 | (100.0–100.0) | 101 | 100.0 | (100.0–100.0) |
| Residence | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| Parity | ||||||
| Primiparous | 44 | 32.5 | (23.8–41.1) | 38 | 42.6 | (13.9–71.4) |
| Multiparous | 103 | 67.5 | (58.9–76.2) | 62 | 57.4 | (28.6–86.1) |
| Pregnancy intention | ||||||
| Intended | 70 | 42.0 | (33.6–50.3) | 44 | 43.2 | (14.2–72.3) |
| Unintended | 74 | 58.0 | (49.7–66.4) | 57 | 56.8 | (27.7–85.8) |
Abbreviation: CI = confidence interval.
*
Alaska, Arkansas, Colorado, Delaware, Georgia, Hawaii, Illinois, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, Michigan, Minnesota, Mississippi, Missouri, Nebraska, New Jersey, Ohio, Oklahoma, Oregon, Pennsylvania, Rhode Island, Tennessee, Texas, Utah, Vermont, Washington, West Virginia, Wisconsin, and Wyoming.
†
Unweighted sample size.
§
Weighted percentage.
¶
Estimates not presented for cell sizes of five or fewer.