Take away the incentives for too many c-sections “The state performs 11,000 unneeded caesarean births each year, in part because of insurance incentives. A measure passed by the last Legislature could help change the pattern.”
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Take away the incentives for too many c-sections
Posted in c-section, cesarean, childbirth on June 12, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More C-sections, more problems
Posted in Birth, c-section, cesarean, childbirth, tagged cesarean, childbirth on June 4, 2009 | Leave a Comment »
More C-sections, more problems… As the expensive surgery’s popularity rises, so have premature births, maternal deaths and neonatal intensive care admissions. Serious medical intervention has diminishing returns, a doctor notes.