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Maternal Medicaid benefits extended to 12 months after birth Mansur Shaheen | Apr 15, 2021 Share this: Postpartum Medicaid coverage in Illinois has now been extended to 12 months after birth. Eligible mothers in the state previously only received 60 days of coverage. The governor’s office announced the rule change on Tuesday. Gov. J.B. Pritzker said that a waiver submitted by the state to the Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services (CMS) was approved recently.     Officials from the Illinois Department of Public Health cite the racial disparity in birth outcomes between Black and white mothers as reason for the extension. A 2019 report from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention shows that Black and Indigenous American women in America are two to three times more likely to die during childbirth. Reasons for the disparities include a lack of access to health care due to financial constraints and other social determinants.

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