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With our daughter, we shopped around and prepaid at a private hospital $5k, no insurance. We ended up not making it to the hospital in time (35 min labor and d
by sparrish 7y ago
With our daughter, we shopped around and prepaid at a private hospital $5k, no insurance.
We ended up not making it to the hospital in time (35 min labor and delivery) and I delivered the baby at home (not recommended). We took mama and baby into the hospital to get checked out and were out of there 5 hours later.
I later contacted the hospital and asked for a partial refund because my wife and I did the hard part.
They refunded us $2.5k.
- cdubzzz 7y agoThat sounds extremely interesting. I’d love to hear more details about this — e.g. Where do you live? How did you arrive at the decision to go this route? How did you even know it was an option? Is this common in your area/anywhere? I’ve never heard of doing it this way. And that price would be cheaper than my deductible, hah!
- sparrish 7y agoAt the time, we lived in Phoenix, AZ USA. We just called up the hospitals and asked what programs they had for private-pay child delivery. Most had post-paid financing but a couple had prepaid programs that were cheaper.