PreTRM for Payers How PreTRM Can Help Reduce Prenatal Costs
Preterm birth is the most prevalent pregnancy-related complication, leading to a host of medical issues and high costs for affected health plan members. The innovative PreTRM Test for preterm labor risk assessment allows physicians to proactively identify and mitigate risks, providing improved health outcomes and lower medical costs.
Health Impacts of Preterm Birth
Preterm birth—also called premature birth—is a pregnancy complication affecting one in ten pregnancies, with far-reaching impacts on mortality and morbidity.
Economic Impacts of Preterm Birth
Not surprisingly, the increased risk of serious health effects for preterm infants can create the need for heavy use of healthcare resources and extremely high costs.
Preterm birth is a major driver of healthcare
utilization and costs:
Preterm Labor Risk Assessment: the PreTRM Test
When a pregnancy is determined to be at high risk for preterm delivery, there are effective interventions to delay labor and improve neonatal outcomes. Several known risk factors exist for spontaneous preterm labor, but up to half of women who deliver prematurely show no signs of these risk factors at an early enough stage to intervene.7
Using a single blood draw to identify predictive protein biomarkers, The PreTRM Test identifies higher-risk pregnancies that lack evident risk factors for spontaneous preterm birth.
Early Risk Identification for Improved Health Outcomes and Reduced Healthcare Costs
In several published studies, the use of the PreTRM Test for preterm labor risk assessment has shown promise in improving key health and economic indicators by enabling early risk mitigation.
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- Matthew K. Hoffman, Carrie Kitto, Zugui Zhang, et al. Neonatal outcomes after proteomic biomarker-guided intervention: the AVERT PRETERM TRIAL. medRxiv 2023.09.13.23295503; doi: https://doi.org/10.1101/2023.09.13.23295503
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