As a follow-up to my previous post where I estimated the bill sizes for delivery in various hospitals in Singapore, before deciding to go with Thomson Medical Centre given their affordability and other reasons detailed here.
I managed to gather the actual hospital bills for a few hospitals from my fellow mamas who had delivered close to my dates (2 – 3 weeks before / after), and here’s how they compare:
Actual Hospital Bills (October – November 2018)
Mummy’s Bill:
Gynae and anaesthetist fees have been excluded from the comparison as these service fees vary according to the professionals who are charging them. Between the few of us, our gynae fees ranged from $2000 – $3500, whereas the anaesthetist fees were from $700 – $775.
Do note that your choice of gynae and anaesthetist will also determine whether your final bill paid to the hospital is on the higher or lower end, as the hospital collects the fees on the doctors’ behalf.
Similarly, I’ve excluded paediatrician fees as the charges varied from $300 – $900+ for the bills I studied. Note that PD fees will depend on the PD you choose, and expect to pay more for the more popular ones.
In my previous post using estimates, I actually predicted that the order from most affordable to most expensive would be Parkway East –> KKH –> TMC — MAH, but as it turned out, the results were surprising.
Parkway East TMC MAH KKH Quoted Estimate (Mother’s bill) $3,734 $4,272.51 $3,581.29 – Actual Mother’s bill $3,905.28 $4,495.32 $4,765.90 – Discrepancy with actual Mother’s Bill $171 $222.81 $1,184.61 – TOTAL HOSPITAL + BABY BILL $4,598.29 $5,738.71 $5,820.67 $6,040.65 *as of bills collected and studied in Oct – Nov 2018 from my friends
**only normal delivery is considered. I do not have the figures for caesarean procedures
