Highland Midwife Birth Services charges a Service Package fee of $5500 for complete routine midwifery care during pregnancy and birth, which is a prompt-pay discount for clients who pay in full by 35 weeks. In states where unlicensed care may be provided under traditional midwifery laws, and so-called vaccine mandates will be prohibiting us from providing licensed care, there will be no fee reduction for traditional care, which generally requires far greater skill and attention without the convenient shortcuts of pharmaceutical drugs. Below you will find several options to help parents pay for their care.

The midwifery care provided under the Service Package meets or exceeds the standards for routine obstetrical care, which costs many thousands of dollars more. Further, it includes many services and supplies which are not normally offered with ob care. For details please see my Financial Agreement.

    Average Costs of Births in the U.S.*
        Cesarean birth: $51,126
        Vaginal birth: $32,093 (average insurance payment is only $18,329 leaving you $13,764 to pay!)

    Compare to:
        Home birth: $5,500 with us, which includes your prenatal, newborn, and postpartum care.

            *Source: TRUVEN HEALTH ANALYTICS MARKETSCAN® STUDY, January 2013. Numbers quoted are for the average cost of complete prenatal care, birth, newborn and postpartum care, the same services provided in our complete package fee. This study represents the latest comprehensive data, but prices have risen since the study was completed.

These are some of the most common methods of payment used to pay for maternity care, and which can be used in various combinations, with some details of the benefits and drawbacks of each:

  ♥     Benefits include receiving our prompt-pay discount package fee, a large savings.
  ♥     Simplifies your care; gives you total freedom in your choices, within safety parameters.
  ♥     Requires payment of package fee in full by 35 weeks. This can be done using a Medical Loan.
  ♥     You can still use your private insurance, and we will provide you with an itemized detailed invoice complete with coding.
  ♥     If you pay us for labs at the time of service, your labs will cost less because we get a provider discount to pass along to you, but we can only offer that savings if we are paid immediately (because we have to pay the lab right away).
  ♥     You can use your credit or debit card to make payments if you need to! Just log into the Silver Sage store, go to "Midwife Payments", and choose Highland Midwife. Select various amounts to add to your cart until it totals the amount of the payment that you want to make. It is secure, easy, and a printable receipt is automatically generated for you.
  ♥     Some trades will be considered. We do live in a rural agricultural area; items such as firewood, hay, and produce are always welcome! Further; I will always treat gold and silver as legal tender for payment.

  ♥     May or may not pay what you expect it to pay, after you have paid their large premiums.
  ♥     May leave you owing a significant balance for your “patient responsibility”.
  ♥     May severely limit your options for choices in your own care, depending on the details contained within your written policy, which details are rarely shared with you.
  ♥     Will delay payment of claims, and invariably requires appeals, making you ineligible for a prompt-pay discount package fee unless you elect to Self-Pay (see 1. above).
  ♥     Insurance payments all go to your midwife unless you have overpaid your portion, then you can get a refund.
  ♥     Gives you the option of paying only your Estimated Patient Responsibility by 35 weeks, which disqualifies you for the package fee but reduces your up-front costs.
  ♥     Lorri will be your contracted midwife, and your claims will not be processed in-network, but an exception can be requested to get in-network reimbursement rates for you.
  ♥     You are responsible for arranging any needed pre-authorizations or in-network exceptions with your policy carrier.
  ♥     Any amount that you do have to pay should count toward your annual deductible.
  ♥     GOOD NEWS! As of the beginning of 2019, we are now contracted with a biller who is famed for getting excellent reimbursements from insurance for out-of-hospital deliveries, so clients should be seeing better refunds on their pre-paid fees!

  ♥     These are currently the only insurance plans which are actually paying providers up to 100% of their fees. (Others only pay a portion of the billed amount, and expect providers to write off the rest and never be fully paid, or patients to pay the balance.) Experience with healthshares has shown that they offer birthing families extremely good service.
  ♥     There are both Christian-based and non-religious healthshares available. They cost less than other private plans, because they are not paying huge profits to stockholders.
  ♥     The detailed invoice that we provide satisfies their paperwork requirements. We give you an “average” estimate for them at the start of care, so they budget ahead to pay for it. After the birth, we give you a closing invoice with exact amounts, including labs.
  ♥     Requires pre-payment in full by 35 weeks, and labs paid at time of service. A short-term Medical Loan (5. below) can help with that, or (6. below) Square Installments.
  ♥     The prompt-pay in full makes you eligible for the package discount flat fee.
  ♥     Reimbursement is usually very fast, and no far has never required any appeal, and the refund all comes directly back to you.

  ♥     We are delighted to now be able to offer you this option! You can log into United Medical Credit to sign up under Lorri’s provider account and apply for a personal medical loan to pay for your maternity care. The direct link is posted below - please apply early to determine whether this may be the best option for you.
  ♥     This option qualifies you to benefit from the prompt-pay package fee discount, without any out-of-pocket expense for you.
  ♥     You can still have our biller handle your private insurance, and/or send in your closing invoice to your insurance or healthshare, and reimbursements from your claims will come back to you.
  ♥     If you apply for a modest amount above our fee, it can cover your labs and supplies as well. Those usually total between $150 and $350.
  ♥     You control the amount of the loan that you apply for, so if you only need a smaller amount to finish paying your fees, then your loan amount will be minimal and still allow you to get our discounted package fee, which means significant savings for you.

I reserve my absolute right to refuse to pursue collection actions against clients for whom I believe those actions would induce financial hardship. I also reserve the right to pursue collections or court action against clients who act in bad faith by not paying their agreed debts after they have received care.