Do you get to keep the leftovers?
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taiyang@lemmy.world 18 hours agoIf it shocks you farther, it’s just a little check box when you have a baby boy. Just a little bit of the paperwork before discharge. You don’t even have to be there, and it’s free. Very strange, all things considered.
tomiant@piefed.social 15 hours ago
Sterile_Technique@lemmy.world 15 hours ago
Only at hospitals that decline to accept tips.
taiyang@lemmy.world 14 hours ago
Nah… they let you keep the placenta, sure, but the doc gets to keep the foreskin for their special baby skin leather doctor’s coats.
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Free? Free?!! In a hospital, in the U S of A?!!! Ok now I’m really shocked.
MnemonicBump@lemmy.dbzer0.com 17 hours ago
It’s not free. It costs hundreds of dollars. The user above may have had it covered by insurance, but that’s a different thing. Entirely NOT free
porous_grey_matter@lemmy.ml 17 hours ago
Oh, phew. I was worried for a minute there.
taiyang@lemmy.world 17 hours ago
Well, it’s “free” under insurance, yes. The bigger thing is that it’s covered under every insurance and I think Medicaid, the public assistance healthcare. Not that it’s all that expensive when a birth is like, tens of thousands of dollars sometimes.
I’ve never met anyone who paid for it, though. I wouldn’t be surprised if it was in law that you had to cover it (while shit like birth control is still debated).
Wilco@lemmy.zip 16 hours ago
Insurance gets charged if it is done, but a friend told me there is no actual charge to the parents. She said there was a lot of pushback about not getting it done and that was one of their “selling points” when she said she wasn’t going to pay for it. Seems like fraud of some kind.
Bronzebeard@lemmy.zip 12 hours ago
I mean, if insurance fully covers it, then the parents don’t get charged. That’s not fraud. That’s just how that works. It’s weird the hospital was so pushy about it though
tomiant@piefed.social 15 hours ago
“Would you like us to cut off a bit of your child’s penis? It’s only $500 if you have a coupon!”
spacebread98@lemmy.zip 10 hours ago
If you done while inpatient it is covered by most insurances as part of labor and delivery. When you are discharged for the hospital it would be considered cosmetic surgery.