TABLE 2.
Association Between Insurance Status and Prelabor Cesarean Delivery in Women Without Previous Cesarean Delivery: New Jersey, 2004–2007
| Risk Factor Subsets and Insurance Type | AORa (95% CI) |
| All women without previous cesarean delivery (n = 362 611) | |
| HMO (Ref) | 1.00 |
| Self-pay | 0.80 (0.76, 0.84) |
| Medicaid | 0.86 (0.83, 0.90) |
| Commercial plan | 1.07 (1.02, 1.12) |
| BlueCross | 1.07 (1.04, 1.11) |
| Women without any of the 5 most common maternal, fetal, and placental high-risk conditions (n = 238 833) | |
| HMO (Ref) | 1.00 |
| Self-pay | 0.68 (0.62, 0.75) |
| Medicaid | 0.76 (0.70, 0.83) |
| Commercial plan | 1.12 (1.04, 1.22) |
| BlueCross | 1.12 (1.06, 1.18) |
| Women without any of the 10 most common maternal, fetal, and placental high-risk conditions (n = 207 661) | |
| HMO (Ref) | 1.00 |
| Self-pay | 0.60 (0.53, 0.68) |
| Medicaid | 0.72 (0.65, 0.80) |
| Commercial plan | 1.14 (1.03, 1.26) |
| BlueCross | 1.11 (1.04, 1.19) |
| Women without any of the 26 most common maternal, fetal and placental high-risk conditions (n = 182 108) | |
| HMO (Ref) | 1.00 |
| Self-pay | 0.51 (0.42, 0.61) |
| Medicaid | 0.65 (0.55, 0.76) |
| Commercial plan | 1.22 (1.06, 1.40) |
| BlueCross | 1.21 (1.10, 1.33) |
Note. AOR = adjusted odds ratio; CI = confidence interval; HMO = health maintenance organization.
a
Adjusted for maternal age, marital status, race/ethnicity, weekend admission, nonmetropolitan location, county of residence, month of year, year, and, according to subset, maternal, fetal, and placental conditions.