How much it cost to have a baby in America (Tennessee)
- Ultrasound “cost us $2,067.85”
- Hospital stay observation room $413.65
- The recovery room cost us $2,702.45
- “A hospital stay, I don't know how that's different, but that one cost us $4,438
- The emergency room cost us $1,932.90
- Laboratory, that cost us an additional $1,439.20
- Then we go into labor and delivery — we got charged $10,593.40
- Then our anesthesia. So my epidural cost us more than anything else. That one was $14,446.15
- Pharmacy cost $3,007.25
- “Supplies cost $565.03”
So the grand total for everything came out to $33,011.73. But that was just for our stay. We also had to pay for Aspen, our newborn daughter, to be in the hospital.
- her hospital stay to stay with us in the room that we also paid for was $4,008
Our complete hospital bill cost $37,019.73
“Was it worth it? Yes. — Yes. It was worth every penny, but she was an expensive baby. It's a lot of money.”
