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Are midwives cheaper than doctors. Family Medicine 10 years experience. Depends on who pays. Some insurance policies might not cover having a midwife so you may end up paying a larger bill out of pocket.
You definitely need to check this out as youre making decisions about your birth plan. Midwives are cheaper than OBGYNs. This has a lot to do with the difference between salaries.
Since doctors earn much more an hour patients can expect to pay more for. Apart from the advantages of being in ones own comforting environment giving birth at home with a midwife in attendance is substantially cheaper than going the doctorhospital route. Midwives are much cheaper than doctors and most do take Medicaid youll just have to find one in your area who does.
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Join Yahoo Answers and get 100 points today. A few stats. Out-of-hospital Midwives have the lowest cesarean rates of 4-5 and their outcomes are just as good as hospital outcomes.
Hospital midwives have higher cesarean rates than out-of-hospital midwives and obstetricians have the highest rates. Although midwives dont carry the title of doctor they are no less competent to provide care for pregnancy and birth. In fact countries where midwifery care is the norm have the best outcomes for both moms and babies.
Midwives Give You More 11 Time. Theres a general belief that midwives spend more time with you during labor than physicians do that they offer a lot more labor support. In my experience Ive found this to be true at least half of the time but certainly not always.
In interviewing doctors for her study however she also learned a few very important things about why they remain so fixedly opposed to the midwifery option. For one thing even Cheyney admits that while the odds of mortality in the case of routine births may be no higher at home than they are in the hospital theyre no lower either. Typically midwives are a more economical choice for pregnancy since the cost for routine prenatal care visits is usually cheaper than with an OB-GYN and is.
Midwives are also more focused on your choices and preferences in the birthing process. Not that a doctor ignores your wishes but it seems they go a little on autopilot and just do what they do. With all my midwives I sat down discussed my options asked lots and lots of.
The use of nurse-midwives has been shown in several studies to reduce the amount of interventions during labor and delivery. Midwives have outcomes that are the same or better than ObGyn doctors. I would like to see more talk about the money-saving advantages of hiring and using more midwives in our hospitals and community health care centers.
For instance nurse-midwives or midwives who deliver babies end up using fewer drugs and they are less likely than doctors to make a type of cut called an episiotomy. The same study found that the women who saw midwives rather than Ob-Gyns had 48 percent fewer C-section births. Yet more importantly research has also shown that.
The costs of childbirth with a midwife are on average just over 2000 less expensive than childbirth under the care of an obstetrician. But youll want to check with your insurance to confirm what your out-of-pocket costs will be. If you are a health system trying to care for vulnerable women who dont have health insurance nurse midwives are often a cost-effective option.
You have to be on top of eating right and exercising and reading and educating yourself. A good midwife should help with the educating part. It is cheaper if you are paying out of pocket but that shouldnt be your primary reason for choosing a homebirth.
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