Hospital Charges Dad $4,000 for Holding Newborn Baby
A couple who recently welcomed a baby were shocked after receiving their hospital bill. In a TikTok video, Jenny and her husband, Josh, content creators who make videos on both TikTok and YouTube about their family, shared their reaction after seeing the hospital bill for their daughter’s birth.
While it’s always jarring to see an itemized bill for any medical procedure or doctor visit, one item really struck Josh, and understandably so. If you can believe it, the hospital charged the couple for Dad simply holding his infant daughter. Yes, you read that right, and it wasn’t just a measly micro-charge.
Mom Jenny recorded her husband’s reaction to a $4,000 hospital charge for holding their baby.
In the video, Jenny hilariously caught her husband’s reaction to the charges on their hospital bill, but one specific charge had him ready to give back their newborn daughter.
“The epidural was about $17,253,” she told her husband,who had been rocking their baby.At the mention of the amount, he immediatly froze, appearing in disbelief as he asked his wife to repeat the number again slowly.
However, the charges only seemed to get worse. For staying 24 hours at the hospital, Jenny and Josh were charged $3,675.60, while the food provided amounted to $176.70.
While all of those charges were quite high, Josh was shocked to learn that the skin-to-skin contact he had with their daughter, Kimmery, after she was born, was also added to their bill. “The skin-to-skin contact you had with Kimmery was $4,000,” she read to her husband. “The skin-to-skin for me was free.”
With complete incredulity, Josh questioned how, for one, the pizza provided by the hospital rounded out to almost $200, and why he was being charged such a high price for simply holding his own child to his chest after she was born.
Reading off the total, wich included the discount from their insurance, it came to $28,219. Jenny told Josh they had 30 days to set up a payment plan to settle their bill.
even with insurance, the cost of childbirth can be financially devastating to parents.
The American health care system is deeply flawed. Outside of politically driven motivators, the major cause of blame lies with large for-profit health insurance companies. Not only do these companies have the ability to reject life-saving care for patients, but they also set the