UPMC Center for High-Value Health Care Receives $3.76 Million PCORI Award to Improve Digital & In-Person Access To Behavioral Health Care For Moms On Medicaid

The UPMC Center for High-Value Health Care secured a $3.76 million award from the Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) to reduce barriers to critical behavioral health services for women both during and after pregnancy. The roughly 900-member research project will recruit primarily Black and white women. Up to 40% of all low-income and Black women experience perinatal depression and/or anxiety–more than double the national rate of 20%, according to existing research.

The project will explore three approaches in behavioral health care delivery: The current “standard of care,” which is connecting pregnancy and postpartum . . .