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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]This is OP - I’m an OB patient and they sent an email to everyone today saying their practice is no longer providing OB services [/quote]

OB malpractice insurance is prohibitively expensive.[/quote]

A friend is an OB in the area and confirmed this is the reason. Apparently the malpractice insurance rates are the same or similar (extraordinarily high) whether the practice is delivering 1 baby or 1,000 babies, so if doctors want to slow down and do fewer deliveries, there isn't any cost savings on the insurance side and it becomes prohibitively expensive. My friend said that's why most OBs and practices either carry a (very) full load, or retire or switch to gyn only—there is no middle ground. Unfortunate!

I certainly do blame the insurance costs (and our litigious society), but it does seem like Foxhall knew this was coming for more than the 90 days notice we received. What would have been really respectful to their pregnant patients is if they made the decision by April 1, 2024 (ish), and then stopped taking new OB patients after that date, so they could deliver all the babies through January 20, 2025. But I guess taking no new patients would have meant their 2024 billables couldn't keep up with their 2024 insurance costs... so I guess they were really in a bind. Doctors do have a right to make a living.[/quote]

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