Medicaid healthcare expenditures for infants with birth defects potentially related to Zika virus infection in North Carolina, 2011-2016.
Kristin BergmanNina E ForestieriVito L Di BonaScott D GrosseCynthia A MoorePublished in: Birth defects research (2022)
Infants with defects potentially related to ZIKV had substantially higher Medicaid expenditures than infants with no reported defects. These results may be informative in the event of a future outbreak and are a resource for program planning related to care for infants in NC.