Comments on: Cost of a Hospital Delivery: $2,140.73 https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/cost-of-a-hospital-delivery-2140-73/ Earn, Save, and Live Joyfully. Tue, 19 Nov 2019 18:47:17 +0000 hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.8.3 By: Annabelle https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/cost-of-a-hospital-delivery-2140-73/comment-page-1/#comment-3245 Sun, 21 Aug 2011 05:30:31 +0000 http://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=1002#comment-3245 Sometimes I forget how different things are in Canada vs. the US. You should totally sneak up here and give birth for free!

]]> By: Kosmo@ The Soap Boxers https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/cost-of-a-hospital-delivery-2140-73/comment-page-1/#comment-3241 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 14:25:10 +0000 http://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=1002#comment-3241 The baby may also have a separate bill from the hospital. I don't know if this is always the case, but it was with our two kids.

Note that the birth of a child is a qualifying event that allows you to change the amount of your FSA allocation (you can only increase it in this case).

The extra money can only be used for expenses incurred after the birth, though. In other words, if you had a 10K bill for open heart surgery 2 months before the birth, you couldn't boost the FSA amount and then use the extra to pay off the bill from the earlier surgery.

I'm not exactly sure if the funds can cover the actually deliver or not. Technically, some of these services would be provided prior to the qualifying event (birth), albeit by mere minutes or hours. If this becomes relevant, you may want to dig.

]]> By: Mrs.B https://www.onefrugalgirl.com/cost-of-a-hospital-delivery-2140-73/comment-page-1/#comment-3240 Thu, 18 Aug 2011 13:34:09 +0000 http://www.onefrugalgirl.com/?p=1002#comment-3240 That's great that you have that in your FSA!

Congratulations on your baby!

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