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States Build Capacity to Address Maternal Mortality through Policy Innovations

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from maternal-related causes , with more than 80 percent of these deaths being preventable. Factors that can lead to a pregnancy-related death include access to care and timeliness of diagnoses. American Indian, Alaskan Native, and Black women are two to three times more likely to die of pregnancy-related causes than White women.

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Primary Care Case Management in Medicaid: A Strategy for Supporting Primary Care in Rural Areas

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Perhaps the most important is to identify specific goals and objectives early on to guide the details of design, such as the choice of quality metrics for incentive payments. In addition, it is important to build in measurement at the start and to think of state efforts as iterative — moving to tackle new priorities as performance improves.