Anonymous wrote:I don't know what kind of insurance you have, but most of this should covered, as mandated by the ACA.

Please tell me you don’t touch health policy in DC. People like you (who haven’t lived in the real world ever apparently) writing Obamacare is how we got the current standard of care.

"Doctor how necessary is this ultrasound? I have crappy insurance and each ultrasound costs X dollars."

i'm only at 32 weeks so not sure yet-- but have monthly ultrasounds so far... but never pay what you pay. can you switch insurance plans for jan 1st to one that's not high deductible?

I’m about as far along as you in a high risk pregnancy. I’ve gotten monthly ultrasounds through my MFM, now weekly since 32 weeks. I would just do what you did at the regular OB and decline. The two offices should be sharing notes anyway. Sounds like maybe the OB just didn’t realize how recently you went?

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Anonymous wrote:In my high risk pregnancy, weekly ultrasounds at the end were normal and indicated by MFM/OB.

Because of my history, they wanted to make sure baby didn't need to come out on the spot and a Doppler wasn't enough for that.

Op here. I had an ultrasound with mfm on Friday and baby was head down. I have a Doppler Thursday to look at blood flow and also a non stress test. It seems a little nuts to me to see baby’s position again 2 days later. My ob today indicated to ultrasound was to check his position and nothing else.

Sorry she said today to do it to check the position.

Anonymous wrote:In my high risk pregnancy, weekly ultrasounds at the end were normal and indicated by MFM/OB.

Because of my history, they wanted to make sure baby didn't need to come out on the spot and a Doppler wasn't enough for that.

Op here. I had an ultrasound with mfm on Friday and baby was head down. I have a Doppler Thursday to look at blood flow and also a non stress test. It seems a little nuts to me to see baby’s position again 2 days later. My ob today indicated to ultrasound was to check his position and nothing else.

In my high risk pregnancy, weekly ultrasounds at the end were normal and indicated by MFM/OB.

Because of my history, they wanted to make sure baby didn't need to come out on the spot and a Doppler wasn't enough for that.

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Anonymous wrote:Your insurance should be covering these if your doctor orders them.

Insurance doesn’t cover anything until she meets the deductible which could be anywhere from 3-7k so no they don’t cover anything until that is met and after that it’s usually only 20 percent until max is met which can be up to 7k I believe but could be more than that. The joy of living in a developed country!!

Some insurances don't have deductibles...like mine. Plus the ACA established pregnancy coverage rules. OP should check.

Op here. Most insurances do have deductibles and Pp is right. They don’t cover sh** until the deductible is met. None of this is considered routine care. The only thing not billed is annual doc visits. Labs will be billed. Obviously I’m mad about insurance but what I really want to know if is how many ultrasounds to check babies position in third trimester is normal? I don’t want to do weekly ultrasounds. Seems excessive.

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Anonymous wrote:Your insurance should be covering these if your doctor orders them.

Insurance doesn’t cover anything until she meets the deductible which could be anywhere from 3-7k so no they don’t cover anything until that is met and after that it’s usually only 20 percent until max is met which can be up to 7k I believe but could be more than that. The joy of living in a developed country!!

Some insurances don't have deductibles...like mine. Plus the ACA established pregnancy coverage rules. OP should check.

I don't know what kind of insurance you have, but most of this should covered, as mandated by the ACA.

Insurance not covering something as necessary as a diabetes test is bonkers. Skipping that can cause medical emergencies.

We're getting scammed in this country.

Anonymous wrote:Your insurance should be covering these if your doctor orders them.

This isn’t always true. Doctors order a lot of stuff that’s not covered.

Anonymous wrote:Your insurance should be covering these if your doctor orders them.

Insurance doesn’t cover anything until she meets the deductible which could be anywhere from 3-7k so no they don’t cover anything until that is met and after that it’s usually only 20 percent until max is met which can be up to 7k I believe but could be more than that. The joy of living in a developed country!!

Your insurance should be covering these if your doctor orders them.

I’m 36 zero days today and they wanted to do an ultrasound. I had one on Friday with my high risk doctor and baby has been head down for weeks. I declined. They said that’s fine but other doctors may want to check other weeks. These ultrasounds aren’t cheap and if baby can flip so easily they could also flip the day of delivery right? It makes more sense to do it when you get to the hospital. I feel some of this isn’t necessary. I will have another growth ultrasound at 38 week with mfm and I am doing Doppler and non stress weekly now as baby is measuring small.


I also failed a heb b test and glucose test only to redo them and test negative. All of this has added a lot of cost to my care. The 3 hour glucose was $400. I’m so ready to be done. It’s crazy how they can charge you whatever the hell they want and you have no idea what the cost will be going in. I called around and couldn’t get an answer for how much the 3 hour glucose test would be. I spent several hours and still nothing.