Vaginal childbirth - full maternity care

The bundled package: prenatal visits, vaginal delivery, and after-birth care.
Code 59400 · Women's health & maternity · statewide summary · negotiated in-network prices
Payers shown: AvMed
Prices shown: every in-person setting
Doctor’s fee or facility fee? This mixes two kinds of price: 85% are doctors' fees and 15% are facility fees paid to a hospital or surgery center. Facility fees are usually far higher, so a wide spread can be the two kinds side by side, not providers charging wildly different amounts. Either way, expect a doctor's fee and a facility fee as separate bills when this is done in a hospital or surgery center. Where a state has both, the table and each state’s popup show the doctor’s fee and the facility fee side by side; their sum is a rough total for the visit, before anything else done during it.
Who is counted: AvMed lists clinicians individually: 96% of the 42,147 provider IDs (NPIs) it names are individual doctors, nurse practitioners and therapists; the rest are practices, clinics and hospitals. “Providers” counts those IDs. AvMed’s files name 29,934 providers for this procedure; 3,301 are counted here: the clinicians whose specialty performs it — mostly Family Medicine, Obstetrics & Gynecology and Advanced Practice Midwife — and the practices, clinics and hospitals. Insurers attach their whole fee schedule to every contracted provider, so the rest are clinicians listed at a price for something they never do; counting them would inflate the provider count and pull the typical price towards the fee schedule’s floor.
Not in these files: Maternity care is often contracted as a case rate or a bundle outside the fee schedule — under a per-case or AP-DRG code set this site does not read (it reads CPT, HCPCS and MS-DRG). A hospital system paid that way is missing here, and such systems can be among the most expensive in a market.
StateProvidersNamed in filesOrganisationsZip codes Lowest25th pctMedian75th pctHighestDoctor’s feeFacility feevs Medicare
“x Medicare” compares each price with what original Medicare pays a doctor for the same service in the same state under its physician fee schedule (RVU26D, in force from 2026-10-01) — the lower price a doctor is paid when a hospital or surgery center provides the room and equipment. Insurers write their contracts as a share of Medicare, so 1.3x means the insurer pays 30% more than Medicare would; Medicare Advantage plans generally pay close to 1.0x. The prices on this map include a facility fee, which Medicare pays separately and which is not in its physician price, so the ratio here runs high and is a rough guide only.
This is a statewide summary. Prices vary far more between towns and between practices than these medians suggest; zip-code and provider-level detail is not published here; this specific data can be requested here.