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Vaginal Delivery: cost by metro

Maternity & delivery · inpatient (a hospital stay) · billed as MS-DRG 805 / 806 / 807 · priced across 29 metros

What does a Vaginal Delivery cost? Across 29 major U.S. metros, the typical insurer-negotiated price for a Vaginal Delivery (MS-DRG 805 / 806 / 807) ranges from about $686 to $30,058 by metro, based on hospitals' own price-transparency files. Self-pay cash prices, where hospitals publish them, are often lower. Pick your metro for the local range and a hospital-by-hospital breakdown. These are price references from public data — not a quote, a bill, or medical or financial advice.

Vaginal Delivery price by metro

The typical insurer-negotiated price for a Vaginal Delivery, by metro — lowest first. Open a metro for the full three-level breakdown and every hospital.

Metro Typical negotiated Range Cash
St. Louis, MO $686 $686 $7,999
Sacramento, CA $1,885 $1,885 —
San Francisco, CA $1,885 $1,885–$9,109 —
Kansas City, MO $2,717 $2,717–$9,466 —
Detroit, MI $4,675 $4,450–$5,385 —
Jacksonville, FL $5,478 $5,451–$5,549 —
Birmingham, AL $5,549 $4,450–$12,538 —
Denver, CO $5,638 $4,124–$21,418 —
Louisville/Jefferson County, KY $5,656 $5,221–$7,540 $12,265
Milwaukee, WI $6,361 $5,383–$8,721 —
Phoenix, AZ $6,452 $5,655–$19,085 $9,444
Austin, TX $6,469 $4,628–$10,341 —
Nashville, TN $7,498 $6,759–$10,983 —
Cleveland, OH $8,149 $4,847–$9,653 —
Memphis, TN $8,258 $1,650–$8,258 —
Houston, TX $8,315 $6,914–$11,417 —
Pittsburgh, PA $8,390 $5,817–$11,100 —
San Jose, CA $8,425 $1,885–$13,265 —
Columbus, OH $8,798 $1,745–$11,516 —
Indianapolis, IN $9,567 $6,943–$11,500 —
Riverside, CA $9,584 $1,489–$15,501 —
Dallas, TX $10,341 $1,837–$79,467 —
Chicago, IL $10,426 $9,092–$11,929 —
Tampa, FL $10,900 $7,783–$12,271 —
New York, NY $10,960 $10,092–$14,952 $30,513
Seattle, WA $11,732 $2,012–$13,004 —
Hartford, CT $13,175 $6,917–$13,175 —
Virginia Beach, VA $16,560 $1,854–$18,112 —
San Antonio, TX $30,058 $2,585–$30,058 —

Source: hospitals' own machine-readable Standard Charges files, published under the U.S. Hospital Price Transparency rule (45 CFR §180.50). Most recent hospital file in this dataset: July 2026. Prices are references, not quotes or bills, and never medical or financial advice — where a hospital reports no price, nothing is shown rather than a guess.

About Vaginal Delivery pricing

A Vaginal Delivery is billed as MS-DRG 805 / 806 / 807 and is usually a inpatient (a hospital stay) service. Prices vary widely by metro and by hospital, which is why every figure here is tied to a specific hospital's own published file. 4 of these 29 metros have at least one hospital publishing a self-pay cash price.

The chargemaster (list) price is the hospital's undiscounted sticker rate. Almost no one actually pays it — insurers negotiate it down and self-pay patients are usually offered the cash price — but it shows how large the discount off list can be.

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