The cost of birth

[make_your_move]

From Regis & Kelly this morning, for births in a hospital in New York:

Uncomplicated vaginal delivery: $10,000

C-section: $12 to $15,000

Complicated pregnancy: $287,000

What we charge at the birth center for a home or birth center birth, normal pregnancy, including labs & usually 1 ultrasound: $4800

And yet, a lot of insurance companies still don't cover this as an option....

Comments

[chavah.livejournal.com]

What Mym said. I tried to do a home birth and ended up in the hospital with a c-section due to complications. Insurance covered the hospital portion, but I paid the midwife out of my own pocket.

[robins1stwife.livejournal.com]

Thank you both for answering. I was just curious because my doctor is an MD and a homeopath and my insurance would not cover any homeopathy or anything used to treat something if we tried homeopathy first and then had to move to the MD part of his practice, they decided it was a preexisting condition.....I am glad to hear that this is not always the way of it.

[chavah.livejournal.com]

Wow... that sucks! I get so frustrated at the arrogance of modern medicine and the insurance companies. The old ways are sometimes still the best ways. I'm glad we have the new advances and the options, but why throw out stuff that works to replace it with more intrusive drugs and procedures that work but are not always the best or gentlest way to deal with an issue. Oy vay!

[robins1stwife.livejournal.com]

I hear ya! In the end I kinda "lucked out" Every time we tried something homeopathic it didn't work, so we just skip to the modern meds now....apparently my body just loves them drugs!