Nest Health, a provider of in-home family healthcare for Medicaid beneficiaries, is rolling out a program for prenatal care and midwifery services.
The new offering, Nest Origin, aims to address the root causes of poor maternal outcomes. Women will get in-home and virtual prenatal visits with certified nurse midwives, including routine prenatal care, screenings and fetal monitoring. The program is available to select managed Medicaid members in New Orleans, with the goal of expanding to more markets.
Nest Health was founded in 2022 and serves 30,000 patients across Arizona and Louisiana. Prenatal care is the latest addition to Nest’s range of services that already include postpartum infant, reproductive, mental health and social care. Nest is contracted with two managed care plans in the state: Aetna and AmeriHealth Caritas. Those members are currently eligible for Nest services.
Louisiana had the highest maternal mortality rate in the U.S. in 2023, according to a recent report from The Commonwealth Fund. Being pregnant with unmanaged health and social needs increases the risk of complications, Nest executives said. But the traditional healthcare ecosystem does not make it easy to address these needs in an integrated way…