Ours was $120 per visit. When DS was born, the paed, wasn''t there so they called in another one from the public hospital who charged us $280, then we had to pay for our paed when he finally checked DS, then another 3 visits/checkups in the hospital. Thankgod we had already hit the safety net!
DS saw a paed while still in hospital (he'd lost 10% of his bodyweight) and that cost $199. And all he did was listen to his heart, remark briefly on his birthmark and tell me that he was happy to wait another 12 hours for my milk to come in.
When we took Toby back for his routine 6wk check to the ped that attended him at birth it was over $200.
Had to laugh when he said we could bring him to him for all his health checks or take him to our (long term, trusted) GP. Ped was an arrogant so and so, GP is luffly....needless to say we never took him back to the ped.
That would be for the first visit. I'm sure Masons first one was about $275. The next visits will be anywhere from $60 - $95 depending on the length of them.
The good news is (I hope it's good news for you ) depending on if you've reached the medicare safety net you can get most of it back. eg Masons most recent ped visit was a $95 one of which we got back $83.70. If not then you have contributed a hefty chunk toward the safety net and you will be closer to it for later on in the year.
(If you get FTB A & B your safety net should only be around $520 worth of out of pocket which you should be quite close to after having a bub )
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) and subsequent visits $58.
) depending on if you've reached the medicare safety net you can get most of it back. eg Masons most recent ped visit was a $95 one of which we got back $83.70. If not then you have contributed a hefty chunk toward the safety net and you will be closer to it for later on in the year.
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Hope you can get for help with the reflux!
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