Yeah, so I'm pretty sure (someone correct me if I'm wrong) to be a Medicare eligible midwife in Aus, you need to have a collaborative agreement with an OB or GP (who perhaps is an OB, dunno!). For my midwife, the relationship only goes as far as him writing a brief letter saying basically yep, this midwife is good to go lol. So you have your antenatal visits and pay, then you're given an invoice for Medicare, you go in and get that back. Our visits were at home, $110 a visit, I believe it was $45 back from Medicare (haven't actually gone in and done this yet haha) and antenatal visits it's $75 back which is huge. There are no rebates available for birth fees, so for us there was an $800 on call fee per midwife and a $900 birth fee per midwife.