Public or Private - I'm torn!

[GlitterMum]

Hey all,
We also have PH due to fertility reasons and have decided to go through the public system but as a private patient. We are having bubs at a public hospital, have been seeing a public ob (due to the fact that private obs in my area are very strict with available hours). The private doctor who will be there to deliver bubs works at our local doctors and is seeing us as a public patient until bubs is due. Then he will switch us over to private for the only reason is I want to have my own room.

Also as he is seeing us as a public patient up until just before bubs is born so we don't have any out of pocket expense.
When we do go in under private (just for the birth) there will also be no out of pocket expense as our doctor is going through the access gap system (where he bills our PH direct). we also have no excess on our hospital stay.

Hope all my rambling makes sense.

[grub17]

i should also add that we have no excess to pay either and my private ob charges $2000 neat for the whole kit and kaboodle - which i think is pretty reasonable.

i can't give you a comparison on waiting times... but we do spend a lot of time waiting for our ob. Once it was 2 hrs and mostly it's an hour.. that's cos she's super busy, they book the appnts too close and women keep having babies on our appnt days (our obs told us she thinks we might be causing all the deliveries to arrive once a month when we visit her lol). i've never asked for out of hours appont as i get time off work for them.

we pay up front for everything and then claim it back through medicare. as for value for money... ask me in dec ! lol.