{"id":6178,"date":"2017-03-17T09:31:11","date_gmt":"2017-03-17T13:31:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6178"},"modified":"2017-03-17T09:31:11","modified_gmt":"2017-03-17T13:31:11","slug":"change-in-texas-medicaid-payments-helps-cut-number-of-premature-births","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=6178","title":{"rendered":"Change In Texas Medicaid Payments Helps Cut Number Of Premature Births"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Michelle Andrews for Kaiser Health News)<\/p>\n<p>Even though the health risks to babies born before they reach full term at 39 weeks have long been recognized, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.cdc.gov\/nchs\/data\/nvsr\/nvsr65\/nvsr65_03_tables.pdf\" target=\"_blank\">nearly 1 in 10 babies<\/a> in the United States is born\u00a0prematurely.\u00a0Texas decided to try to change that. <a href=\"http:\/\/khn.org\/news\/change-in-texas-medicaid-payments-helps-cut-number-of-premature-births\/?utm_campaign=KHN%3A%20First%20Edition&amp;utm_source=hs_email&amp;utm_medium=email&amp;utm_content=46528151&amp;_hsenc=p2ANqtz-_f0Gj9LQPhsyjXooO0pfzU2vP_7Viqy7b0MOhjNQjK1J7JRNY4xFHS8IW4nUXeUluHlxggCsvSoDg26jwSnstWYNmiSA&amp;_hsmi=46528151\" target=\"_blank\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n<p style=\"margin: 0px 0px 15px; padding: 0px; outline: 0px; border: 0px currentColor; color: #444444; text-transform: none; line-height: 1.6; text-indent: 0px; letter-spacing: normal; font-family: 'Open Sans', serif; font-size: 15px; font-style: normal; font-weight: normal; word-spacing: 0px; vertical-align: baseline; white-space: normal; orphans: 2; widows: 2; font-stretch: inherit; background-color: #ffffff; font-variant-ligatures: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-variant-numeric: inherit; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;\">Kaiser Health News\u00a0is\u00a0a nonprofit national health policy news service that is part of the nonpartisan Henry J. 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