Costs of Private Obstetrician?

[nickle730]

You would need to find an ob who has delivery rights at the public hospital you would want to use, but they work on a roster and so if you required the care of an obstetrician at delivery, you would be attended by whomever was rostered on. I don't think that an ob would agree to deliver you privately in a public hospital, and I'm not sure you would find a public hospital which would agree for you to be delivered privately! Your only option, I think, would be to delivery privately in a private hospital as a self funded patient, but the cost would be prohibitive for most people.

It's worth ringing a couple of ob's to ask the question, I'm interested in what the answer is!

ETA: there is a cap on what medicare will rebate for obstetrician's fees, it's somewhere around $400 for delivery and a little bit extra for management - you could ask at your local medicare office. In 2010, I paid a total of $6500 for my ob and medicare refunded around $600. I paid about $200 per US and think I got back around $50... can't remember the exact figures, but it cost a lot and I have PHI which covered the hospital fees.