Does your organization’s health insurance cover home births?

The number of U.S. births has been declining every year since 2008—2014 being the one exception—according to the U.S. Census Bureau. While the Census Bureau indicates it may be too soon to draw broad conclusions about the full impacts of the pandemic on birth trends, it does appear likely the pandemic caused at minimum a temporary drop in the birth rate. Another pandemic side effect related to pregnancy is the growing popularity of home births.