When many health maintenance organizations (HMOs) adopted short-maternity-stay policies in the early to mid-1990s, a controversy ensued that culminated in the passage of laws in the U.S. Congress and in 41 states mandating 48-hour stays for mothers and infants. Critics charged that HMOs were more concerned about cutting costs than treating vulnerable new mothers and their infants. But a study published in the Dec. 19 issue of the New England Journal of Medicine refutes that widely held assumption.
The new study, conducted by researchers at the Harvard Medical School/Harvard Pilgrim Health Care Department of Ambulatory Care and Prevention, examined more than seven years of data on 20,366 mother-infant pairs before and after Massachusetts enacted its 48-hour minimum hospital stay in February 1996.
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