Washington has joined 26 states in offering Medicaid reimbursement for doula care, a service linked to better maternal outcomes. The expansion comes as the Trump administration moves to cut key ...

Hundreds of miles of open road can stretch between expectant mothers and the maternity care they need in rural Montana. That’s where trained, non-medical professionals called “doulas” can help fill ...

The Montana state Department of Public Health and Human Services postponed adding doula services to its Medicaid program in late March, citing a budget shortfall driven in part by higher-than-expected ...

While technology can be leveraged to advancing healthcare, federal reimbursement policies often restrict the access to and use of these technologies, suggests Thomas Hwang, a health policy researcher ...