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I actually never saw any bill as my insurance covered everything. I am curious to know what the amount was ....

Our hospital you can prepay if you don't have insurance and they will match up to 3K. However, for those of us that have insurance we will get the bill in the mail 2-3 weeks after we get home. I think our insurance will cover most of it, but anything it doesn't we will obviously pay out of pocket.

I paid my deductible up front, but am almost positive I will owe more. LO just turned a month old & I haven't recd anything else yet

I got a bill for the $150 deductible about a month after I gave birth. My pregnancy bill was about $80,000 total (yikes!)

@Mrsbells: oh ok! i don't even have log in information. i will have to ask DH since it was his insurance.

After. The hospital has to add everything up, then submit it to the insurance company for them to pay their portion, and then I’ll be billed for whatever my portion is. I’ve never had to pay anything up front when going to a hospital, even an ER visit. Just receive the bill several weeks after.

Also, your LO, from the minute they are born, is covered separately from you under whatever insurance plan you will put them on. So the insurance company has to wait for you to add LO to the plan, then determine what portion of LO’s bill they will cover, and then bill you for your/LO’s portion.

I stated getting EOB' about 3 weeks after? We have 2 insurances so I haven't seen a final bill just yet and she is 5.5 weeks old.

I pre-registered with the hospital. When I did this, they inquired if I had pre-paid my doctor to cover the deductible and since I had, they agreed to post-bill me. I suspect had I not already paid my $2500 deductible to the doctor, I would have been required to pre-pay.

That being said, I got the bill after it had been processed through insurance about a month later. But once I was actually billed they were hot on the trail to collections.

@miss-spunkin: regular prenatal care plus 13 ultrasounds (there were some complications/concerns on some blood test results), a fainting spell at 20 weeks landed me in an ambulance with a trip to the ER (more embarrassing than anything since it happened at a work function in front of 200 people and my CEO), a 4 day stint in the hospital with a severe kidney infection at (36 weeks), plus delivery and an extra day in the hospital because of LO's high bilirubin levels came to 80K...

5 weeks postpartum I got to tack on another 20K to my 2011 medical bill total for the year because I had gallbladder surgery (which they attribute to the pregnancy) and was in the hospital for another 4 days- I made a horrible pregnant person. But oh so happy to report that LO is perfect in every way (and worth all the medical woes)

@miss-spunkin: Thank you!
Doesn't scare me in the least (we plan to start trying for #2 very soon), although I wonder how it will be next time around- I was diagnosed with intrahepatic cholestasis of pregnancy (ICP) and induced so I know I will be carefully monitored throughout my next pregnancy