The amount your obstetrician charges for each visit could range from about $90 to more than $500. Other services, such as ultrasounds and laboratory tests, are typically billed separately and cost ...

Women who attend prenatal care visits in groups are more likely to continue with their care and have better health outcomes at birth and beyond, according to a University of Michigan study. The study ...

According to the March of Dimes, one in four women in the U.S. does not receive prenatal care during the first trimester. In ...

Full practice authority for nurse practitioners could help curb those distressing rates, NP leader says. Rising maternal death rates, caused in part by "maternity deserts" with little or no access to ...

Sending registered nurses out on home visits throughout pregnancy failed to move the needle when it came to improving uptake of prenatal care, a randomized trial involving Medicaid patients found. Use ...

Can group prenatal care make pregnancy and birth safer? By Sarah DiGregorio This story was originally published on Jan. 17, 2020 in NYT Parenting. If you’ve been pregnant, you probably know this ...

Limited access to prenatal care in rural areas contributes significantly to the higher maternal mortality rates reported in the United States compared to other high-income countries, according to the ...

The pregnancy and health-care experience of expectant parents who receive a prenatal diagnosis of their unborn infant is distinctively fraught with uncertainty. Health-care providers (HCPs) that care ...

Bailee Tordai, who was 33 weeks into her pregnancy, barely made it to the prenatal checkup. Her clunky old Jeep couldn’t complete the 2-mile trip from her house to the University of Iowa’s outreach ...

A recent study led by Stephanie Durfee, University at Buffalo nursing clinical instructor and PhD student, sheds light on persistent challenges rural populations face in accessing prenatal care, a ...