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.
Division of Tenncare
Billing Policy Change for Immediate Postpartum Voluntary Reversible Long-Acting Contraception
TIPQC