Op-ed: How employers can help reduce the number of premature babies born in Houston

There are more than 74 million women in today ’s workplace, according to the Department of Labor. Seventy percent of them are mothers with children under the age of 18 and 1.7 million have a baby each year.  It’s important to understand the financial impact of delivering healthy babies. According to the March of Dimes, a child needing neo natal or intensive care can represent the most expensive conditions billed to commercial insurers for hospital care. Employers could pay 12 times more in health…
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