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- From: mpaul@unlinfo.unl.edu (marxhausen paul)
- Newsgroups: misc.kids
- Subject: Home births and HMOs...
- Date: 31 Dec 1992 03:42:46 GMT
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- Hmmm, I was just struck by a thought - the accusation is made during most
- homebirth threads that hospitals/doctors favor hospital deliveries at least
- partly out of a financial interest in them. I'm curious what most health
- maintenance organization's opinions are on this: in their relentless efforts
- (around here, anyway) to minimize their costs, I would think they would
- favor home births. For those who are members of HMOs, what do your organ-
- zations say regarding their coverage for home births? (I don't know what
- our HMO says about this. I just know that at 8:40 pm when our daughter
- was being born a while back, the attending doctor commented that if the
- baby where born before 9:00 pm Kim would have to go home the next day
- [although the doctor can overrule that HMO rule if he deems it advisable].
- Anne was born at 9:04...other than that, we've been happy with both the
- HMO and the hospital.)
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