State Efforts to Extend Medicaid Postpartum Coverage
Extending Medicaid postpartum coverage beyond 60 days is emerging as a key state strategy to address the maternal mortality crisis. This interactive map and chart summarizes proposed and approved legislation since 2018, Medicaid waivers and state plan amendments, financial estimates, and other initiatives designed to extend coverage during the postpartum period.
The American Rescue Plan Act of 2021 provides states the option to extend Medicaid postpartum coverage from 60 days to 12 months. Under the Consolidated Appropriations Act of 2023, this option was made permanent. Once states take up the option to extend coverage from 60 days to 12 months postpartum, they will continue to receive federal matching funds.
