Individuals at high risk for pregnancy-associated morbidity and mortality have unique needs for reproductive health services, including abortion care. Legal restrictions on abortion care in many states make it challenging or impossible for clinicians to practice standard-of-care, evidence-based medicine and for institutions to implement evidence-based clinical guidelines for reproductive healthcare. ... Read more >

Pregnancy options counseling is a person-centered process through which one provides information regarding management options in continuing a pregnancy or not and seeks to understand a patient’s values, beliefs, preferences, concerns, and ambivalence regarding pregnancy. In practice, upholding comprehensive person-centered pregnancy options counseling is a nuanced process. A health care ... Read more >

It is crucial to emphasize the significance of reimbursing Detailed First-Trimester Ultrasounds (DFTUs) and the proposed adjustment to the guidance for CPT® code 76811, traditionally associated with second-trimester ultrasounds. Historically, this code has been restricted to one examination per pregnancy, a limitation acknowledged by medical societies and underscored by payor ... Read more >

This Clinical Recommendation serves as a revision to the Society of Family Planning’s 2010 Prevention of infection after induced abortion guidance. It examines infection risk, identifiable risk factors, and prophylactic measures for the prevention of infection associated with procedural and medication management of abortion and pregnancy loss to make evidence-based ... Read more >

Pregnancy of unknown location is a condition in which a pregnancy test is positive, but no intrauterine or extrauterine pregnancy is visualized using transvaginal ultrasonography. We recommend using standardized nomenclature and definitions to describe intrauterine pregnancy (IUP), probable IUP, pregnancy of unknown location (PUL), probable ectopic pregnancy (probable EP), and ... Read more >