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Increasing commercial coverage of doula services: perspectives from health plans and large employers in California.

Ashley Nguyen, Mounika Parimi, Kendy Yaneth Mendoza, Anu Manchikanti Gómez, Cassondra Marshall

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Article in Health affairs scholar, 2025. The graph could read no effect estimate from its abstract, so it casts no vote on the map. Not yet cited in PubMed.

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1 · What the graph read from it

What it found

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The abstract states no effect estimate the extractor could read, or names no intervention and outcome on the map, so this paper lights no cell and moves no belief. It is still indexed, cited and linked below.

2 · The registry

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4 · The record

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5 · Who and what money

Authors and funding

5 authors.

Ashley NguyenSchool of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 2121 Berkeley Way #5302, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0002-5581-4947
Mounika ParimiSchool of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 2121 Berkeley Way #5302, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.ORCID https://orcid.org/0000-0001-7328-396X
Kendy Yaneth MendozaSchool of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 2121 Berkeley Way #5302, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.
Anu Manchikanti GómezSexual Health and Reproductive Equity Program, School of Social Welfare, University of California, Berkeley, 113b Haviland Hall, MC 7400, Berkeley, CA 94720-7400, United States.
Cassondra MarshallSchool of Public Health, University of California, Berkeley, 2121 Berkeley Way #5302, Berkeley, CA 94720, United States.

Funding

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6 · The paper itself

Abstract

Although Medicaid coverage of doula services has expanded since 2014, commercial coverage remains nascent. Little is known about what motivates private payers to cover doula support. Through qualitative interviews with staff members (

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doulahealth insuranceinsurance benefitsmaternal health

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PMID40206422
PMCPMC11979456

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