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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

Introducing the new midwife!

Hello all! Time to get active with this blog thing, so I cam going to try to get all of you to sign up for it so you get my instant messages! For those of you out there listening, we have a new midwife here at H2H...please join us in welcoming Kaleen Richards, CNM.  Check out the website staff page and read her bio to learn more about Kaleen. She is a sweetheart (otherwise we would not have brought her in on our team) and you guys are all going to love her as much as we do. Along with being a midwife, she is also an ARNP, which means she can actually see you for sick visits as well as routine prenatal care (meaning she can also prescribe medications if you are sick, so no more doctor visits). She had homebirths with her last 2 sons, and has been looking for a way to give more natural birth care than she was able to in a hospital setting. So come out and meet the new kid on the block! And don't worry, I am still here plugging away, I am just needing some extra hands!! It is really g