Insurance

Congratulations!! You took a pregnancy test and it came out positive. Then you scheduled a consult and tour at our birth center. And while you visited us, we put together an estimate for your insurance coverage. Most people really don't understand how their insurance plans actually work. I mean, they understand that they have insurance but they often don't understand why they have to pay anything out of pocket or a how we come up with the estimate, so we thought we would help break this down for you.  But first: there are different ways people obtain insurance plans. Some employers include insurance plans are a benefit to working with their company. Employers will contract with different insurance companies and each employer might offer different plans to different employees, so just because you have Cigna, as an example, it doesn't mean all Cigna plans are the same. Also, some people purchase their own insurance plans directly from insurance companies or from the Marketpla...

Florida Friends of Midwives Meeting




Greetings all, been a while since I posted, so forgive me. There has been a lot going on and the only way you will all get to know about it is by reading it on here and I have fallen down on that job! My other job sometimes gets in the way!!

We had a FFOM meeting the other day here at the Center. There is a big push going on in the US to ban midwifery and take away your rights to choose your type of healthcare provider as well as birth setting (meaning homebirth or birth center) and make it so that you can only have an OBGYN deliver your baby in a hospital setting.

The Florida Midwives are gathering to hire a lobbyist to help us keep track of what is going on up in Tallahassee at the legistlative meetings. The Florida Statute Chapter 467 (the midwifery laws) are open to sunset review this next year and this is why we all need to get proactive!! We need you help to make sure that the State Representatives all know that you (as a registered voter) want to protect your right to a midwife.

Please keep posted, and I will be writing more as it comes across from the groups. Get involved. Join Midwives Association of Florida or Florida Friends of Midwives TODAY!! Write in and let me know that you care.

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