Our country is experiencing a maternity care crisis with the highest maternal mortality rate among industrialized countries. Since 2000, the maternal mortality rate has risen nearly 60%, making it worse now than it was decades earlier. More than half of these deaths are preventable. This crisis is especially prominent for women of color, who have preterm birth rates 50% greater than average and are three to four times more likely to die during childbirth.

Lucina, a Unified company, illuminates the path to better women’s health through predictive analytics, maternity health intelligence, and tailored care management programs, enhancing outcomes across the dynamic journey
of a pregnancy. Lucina supports more than seven million members across 21 health plans in 27 markets.

Lucina’s centralized maternity health intelligence provides health plans with easy access and timely visibility into what’s happening with their members so that care teams can focus on priority cases. Utilizing advanced analytics and dynamic risk stratification, our model excels at predicting the potential for poor birth outcomes by considering over 7,000 risk factors, including prominent social determinants of health.

Lucina’s analytics has helped health plans to identify 98% of expecting moms before delivery and ~70% in the first trimester. This allows for earlier intervention and access to care that will prevent or limit poor birth outcomes, including a 10% reduction of preterm and low birth weight babies, and 2.3 fewer days in the NICU.

Lucina partners with innovative health plans to offer programs that support an episode of care in value-based models. These programs match pregnant patients to the right level of assistance, enabling physicians to amplify their care by further addressing their patient’s medical, behavioral, and social needs to significantly improve health outcomes. Our care management teams build patient trust through support and education, creating personalized care plans that increase motivation, engagement, and adherence.