Suboptimal Prenatal Syphilis Testing Among Commercially Insured Women in the United States, 2013

Robyn Neblett Fanfair1, Guoyu Tao, Kwame Owusu-Edusei

  • 1From the Division of STD Prevention, National Center for HIV/AIDS, Viral Hepatitis, STD, and TB Prevention, Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, Atlanta, GA.

United States surveillance data demonstrate that congenital syphilis cases are increasing. We performed an analysis of commercially insured pregnant females using MarketSan to determine syphilis screening rates at different prenatal stages; 85% of pregnant women in this population had a syphilis test performed at least once during the prenatal period.