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Immediate Postpartum Long-Acting Reversible Contraception

Offering long-acting reversible contraception (LARC) in the immediate postpartum period (IPP), to women who desire these effective methods, reduces the barriers to access and should lower unintended and short-interval pregnancy rates. However, the focus of any contraceptive initiative, including IPP LARC initiatives should not be to increase the number of devices placed or methods used. Instead, the focus should be to increase the access women have to accurate, non-coercive information. Ultimately this allows the initiative to strive to increase access to contraception by focusing on the number of IPP LARCs obtained by women who desire them.

4,330+


IPPLARCs placed since 2018.

17


Hospitals participating in statewide initiative.

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Resources

Division of Tenncare

Billing Policy Change for Immediate Postpartum Voluntary Reversible Long-Acting Contraception

TIPQC

Statewide quality improvement initiative to implement immediate postpartum long-acting reversible contraception

ACOG

Immediate Postpartum LARC for Clinicians Doing Deliveries

ACOG

Immediate Postpartum LARC