The influencer shared the details of her hospital bill in a TikTok video on Sunday, July 12
Credit: Allison Kuch/TikTok; Allison Kuch/Instagram
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- Allison Kuch detailed her hospital bill for her second baby’s birth, which originally totaled over $20,000 before insurance
- She compared costs between her first C-section and her recent VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean), highlighting high charges for rooms, medication and procedures
- Kuch joked about her NFL insurance covering most costs in the TikTok video, shared on Sunday, July 12
Allison Kuch is sharing the steep costs of giving birth in a candid new TikTok video.
Kuch, 31, shared the detailed breakdown of her hospital bill in the Sunday, July 12 video. She recently welcomed her second baby, daughter Pepper Jo, with husband and NFL star Isaac Rochell in April.
“I just got my hospital bill back from giving birth,” Kuch began the video, scrolling through the bill on a laptop. “Let’s add everything up and see the grand total.”
She explained that her first baby, daughter Scottie, now 2, was a planned C-section, and the cost before insurance was $32,000. Kuch said her second daughter, Pepper, arrived via a vaginal birth, which took “48 hours spent in the hospital from start to finish.”
“And yes, I did get the motherf—ing epidural,” Kuch joked.
“Starting off with the most expensive hotel I’ve ever stayed at, my hospital,” she quipped. “Private labor and delivery room $3,200. Just for one night. I’ve never paid that much for a hotel room in my life.”
She did note that the private labor and delivery room did have a “view of the ocean.”
“Private postpartum room, $3,200,” she continued. “Just for me to sleep on an uncomfortable mattress and my husband to sleep on a pullout bed where his feet hang over the side because he’s so tall.”
“$6,413—let’s move on to the good stuff,” Kuch added. “Pitocin. I ended up getting three bags of Pitocin. $393. Oh no, that’s per bag. I spent $1,100 on a drug to make my contractions more painful. Beautiful.”
She noted that before getting her epidural, she had a $90 bag of saline plus Zofran, an anti-nausea medication, to help her ease her contractions. “Honestly I just like Zofran and I’m obsessively scared of throwing up,” she continued, adding, “$128. Epidural medication $158. I don’t know what medicine this is, but it was $138.”
Between Zofran, plus the lidocaine, epinephrine, fentanyl, and bupivacaine included in the epidural, Kuch shared that these medications totaled about $560.
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Her birth was listed as “vaginal delivery level two” in the bill. Given that she pushed “once” when in labor for Pepper’s birth, Kuch questioned if someone would still need to pay a doctor’s fee if they gave birth solely under the care of a nurse.
Kuch shared that the hospital’s charge for using the labor and delivery unit, including “nursing, care, equipment monitoring,” was $9,993, and a full catheter insertion cost an additional $472.
“I pooped on the table, what’s the problem with peeing on it?” Kuch said. “Medications after delivery. Ibuprofen $28 each. That’s like…I could’ve just gotten it at CVS down the street.”
She shared that prenatal vitamins cost $28, with an additional $28 for iron, as she is anemic.
“The hospital originally billed well over $20,000,” Kuch explained. “And somehow my insurance, do they have a coupon? They bargained it down to $7,000. So my insurance paid $13,421.26.”
Credit: Allison Kuch/Instagram
Continuing to her OB/GYN charges, Kuch said she was billed $6,185 for a VBAC (vaginal birth after cesarean). “And he was there for, I kid you not, three f—ing minutes. I pushed one time and my daughter came out.”
A VBAC refers to a vaginal birth for women who previously gave birth via C-section in an earlier pregnancy, according to Mayo Clinic. VBAC birth does not require surgery on the stomach area, and offers a “lower risk of infection and serious blood loss, lower risk that a baby will have breathing problems after birth, a shorter hospital stay, and a faster return to daily activities.”
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“And he made almost $7,000. Why did I get my degree in art?” Kuch joked of her doctor.
“My insurance also bargained with him,” Kuch explained. “They got him down $1,000. So my insurance ended up paying him $4,093.”
“Now what did I pay? My grand total, after about $25,000, including my OB, the hospital, the drugs, I ended up paying $1,500 dollars,” Kuch concluded the video. “Who am I insured by? The NFL. Still the NFL. So if you’re wondering if I do end up having a next baby, when will I have that baby? Before this insurance is up.”
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