The Cost of Giving Birth Tracker is a free, interactive tool, updated today, that tracks the cost of giving birth state by state. Available on FAIR Health's website fairhelath.org, the Cost of Giving Birth Tracker consists of heat maps that show state-specific and national median charge and allowed amounts for vaginal deliveries and C-sections. The tool draws on the national, independent nonprofit FAIR Health's database of commercial health care claim records — the nation's largest such repository, which is growing at a rate of more than four billion claim records a year.
Many of the nation’s largest health plans trust FAIR Health to store, de-identify, aggregate and analyze their claims data. Our processes for handling data contributions meet the industry’s most exacting standards, as demonstrated by our HITRUST, SOC 2 and CMS QE certifications.