“For women in the United States with low-risk pregnancies, birth centers can offer an alternative to the typically expensive and intervention-heavy maternity care system. Birth centers don’t do cesarean deliveries, but among women in birth center care, about 6 percent of them end up with a C-section after transferring to a hospital; that’s far lower than the 26 percent of low-risk pregnancies over all that are delivered by C-section. Plus, the cost of a birth center delivery is roughly half that of an uncomplicated hospital birth (often paid for by insurers, including Medicaid).”
from Agape Birth Doula Services https://ift.tt/2ASJYjZ