Racial and ethnic disparities in the provision of epidural analgesia to Georgia Medicaid beneficiaries during labor and delivery

Racial and ethnic differences in the proportion of Medicaid patients who receive epidural analgesia during labor and delivery were measured. It was found that out of 29,833 women who met our inclusion criteria, 15,936 were found to have epidural analgesia and that the rural women had lower epidural analgesia rates (39.2%) than urban women (62.1%).