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UnitedHealthcare, with more than 670,000 members Colorado’s second-largest health insurer, is launching an effort to help physicians in its network reduce neonatal intensive-care- unit admissions.
The program will share data highlighting the increased risk of complications for babies delivered by scheduled C-sections.
The data, based on a review of claims data for mothers and their newborns, showed that 48 percent of newborns admitted to the neonatal intensive- care unit were from scheduled — many before 39 weeks’ gestation — C-section deliveries, a practice discouraged by the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists.
