For those who had a c-section as a private patient

[nic]

I can't quite remember our OOP cause DH had a wisdom tooth removed a week after DS was born so we had 2 anaethetist bills

I think our OB's assistant was around $100 out of pocket??
Our anaethetist's bill was orignally quoted to be around the $800, but it think it came in around $500-$600, because we got a couple of hundred discount for paying early. I think we may have been OOP a couple of hundred at most with that.
The paed's bill was just over $1000. Our paed was stuck in another state on a plane, waiting for fog to clear. The only other paed was a previously private one, now working at the public hospital. He came to DS's delivery, checked him over, then billed our paed, who billed us. Our paed, then checked DS when he returned the same day DS was born, then another 3 visits plus the first check up was included in that price. They charged us for DS being an outpatient, so by the time we claimed, i think we were OOP just over $100.

We also got a letter from the anaethetist a couple of weeks before the c/s, which had a price list. It was written out so you could see that they charged in x amount of minute blocks, then if it was an emergency it was x amount extra, if you went over a certain amount of time it was this much extra, etc... not easy to work out how much it would cost, since you don't know how long it will take.

[~mamaspice~]

I paid no additional fees for the anaesthetist or the assistant surgeon. They billed my health fund and medicare directly.

[Baby14]

I can't remember the exact figures but we were out of pocket about $1000 for the anaethetists bill. The bill in the mail was approx $1600 but we got a $200 discount for paying within 2 weeks and then claimed back $400ish from medicare. We have top PHI but couldn't claim anything back from them for the anaethestist.

We had checked with our PHI about out of pocket expenses prior to the birth and were told none (we were planning a natural birth) but with the c/s we had the out of pocket expenses then we got bills from pathology which were quite expensive and while medicare and PHF paid some, we still had to pay the gap. I have just received 2 new bills in the mail this week from pathology and DS is nearly 6 months old....

[Sarah:)]

Wow, ladies you got out of it cheap.

I think we paid about $2000.00 out of pocket for the anaethetists and pead. it could have been over that.
I guess it comes down to what doctor you get!