Preventing Preterm Birth Through Progesterone

Overcoming barriers to help moms access treatments that reduce the risk of preterm births.

This issue brief details the effectiveness of progesterone in preventing preterm births for at-risk women, the current barriers to progesterone access and how some state Medicaid agencies are creating new reimbursement models to make it more readily available.

This issue brief was developed as part of the Collaborative Improvement and Innovation Network to Reduce Infant Mortality (Infant Mortality CoIIN) project.