[tibs]

I guess I was kind of lucky that we never had to pay a lump sum fee of any sort. We just paid for each appointment during the pregnancy and then the delivery etc was ll no gap so covered by medicare and PHI.
Quite possibly though my appointment fees were higher and therefore covered the amount overall anyway, or maybe it was different because she worked in a practice with at least 4 other OBGYN's and a paediatrician. Who knows.....

Yes it is funny how different they are, mine had the management fee but bulk billed all the appointments, the actual delivery (c-sec) was at no cost to me either.

I unfortunately recently suffered a miscarriage at 10 weeks, so while I didn't incur the management fee I did still have to pay the ob $1500 for consults/D&C and surprisingly got very little of that back from medicare/PHI, all up it actually cost me nearly as much as my last delivery and I didn't even get a baby at the end of it

[TiredbutHappy]

Overwhelmingly higher insurance costs--when human life is involved liability insurances are enormous.

Around $10k a month back in 2008, actually.

The snarky comments annoy me too. We have a good public system, if people resent paying an OB they can vote with their wallets.

I wouldn't care if my OB drove a Rolls.

FWIW my OB came in on Easter Sunday just to check on me with pregnancy #1 simply because I thought DD's movements were slow, even though the hospital had called him and told everything was ok. That was at 10pm at night. With my 2nd pregnancy he stayed back until 8 pm to counsel DH & I when we found out we needed a termination, and then stayed after we had left so he could organize everything to be ready for us the next morning, all for the handsome sum of ......$90.

This post has been edited by Gumbette: 09/01/2012, 09:58 PM

[75etd]

My obs was an absolute bargain at $2k for the pregnancy management fee with everything else bulk billed. He saved my life and my daughters....... You could never pay me enough to be an Obs. The personal sacrifices are too great. My relatively young obs used to joke with me that he was about to retire so he could use the golf club membership which he had been paying for years.