Hi Page,
Hopefully she will keep her appointment and get some advice

My cousin has had 2 c/s (both due to PE). She was a public patient, and for the first one E/C it was all free, in hospital etc. For the second one, becuase it was planned (they knew early on about the PE and booked her in for a c/s), she had to pay for a couple of visits to an OB (all her other appts were shraed care) which she got some back from medicare.