Does anyone know how much it costs to deliver a baby? I imagine that you stay in the hospital for 1 or 2 nights, and it's probably really expensive. With the insurance I have, I pay 20% of whatever the costs is. Just curious what kind of bills I'll be getting next June
Thanks ladies!
Re: Cost to deliver a baby?
This website brakes down all the different cost. https://www.hisboyscanswim.com/
HTH.
With my 1st so it was only $150 (10x the $15 copayments). It was $2000 with my 2nd son under my DH's sh!tty insurance. This baby will be $200 (10x the $20 copayments). I don't remember if it was an 80/20 or a 70/30 plan.
The billed amount for me to deliver DS was a little over $20,000. That was a vaginal delivery with an epidural. That also included about $3000 for DS to be in the NICU for about 8 hours. Luckily, all I had to pay was $250 total.
ETA: That was for a total 2 day/2 night stay.
I know our hospital fee's are 3000 just for the delivery, add in around 1000-1500/night and its about 5000+ if you have a csection.
hope that helps! you can always call your hospital and ask!
My OB charges $4000 for the delivery. With DD, the hospital charges were another $8K. That was with an epidural. So just for me it was $12K.
DD's hospital cost was around $3500.
I paid $200 total.
Our total is $270
I'm not sure of the GRAND total total though...just what our portion is. All DH and I have to pay is 1 $20 copay (covers all doctor vists throughout pregnancy), and the $250 hospital fee.
Last time we had to pay a lab co pay each time for lab work which came to 210 dollars total, I had one co-pay for the doctor (you only pay the first one) which was only 40 dollars (they billed 350 though), and then that was it.
Now I had complications and stayed in the hospital friday through wed and my DD was in the NICU from sat to wed. So my total bill was around 100K for me and at least that for DD thank goodness we didn't have to cover any other that though
Wow, this is eye opening! I really had no idea Americans had to pay so much just to have a baby...that's awful.
For us midwife/OB care is covered by the government, so is the delivery & hospital stay, basically everything. The only thing that I have to pay for, which gets covered under my work insurance, is medications (like m/s meds), and a semi-private hospital room if I want one.
M/C Nov 9, 2011 at 11 weeks.... We love you & miss you