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If it shocks you farther, it's just a little check box when you have a baby boy. Just a little bit of the paperwork before discharge. You don't even have to be there, and it's "free". Very strange, all things considered.
Free? Free?!! In a hospital, in the U S of A?!!! Ok now I'm really shocked.
It's not free. It costs hundreds of dollars. The user above may have had it covered by insurance, but that's a different thing. Entirely NOT free
Oh, phew. I was worried for a minute there.
Well, it's "free" under insurance, yes. The bigger thing is that it's covered under every insurance and I think Medicaid, the public assistance healthcare. Not that it's all that expensive when a birth is like, tens of thousands of dollars sometimes.
I've never met anyone who paid for it, though. I wouldn't be surprised if it was in law that you had to cover it (while shit like birth control is still debated).
If it's done while inpatient it is covered by most insurances as part of labor and delivery. When you are discharged for the hospital it would be considered cosmetic surgery.
Insurance gets charged if it is done, but a friend told me there is no actual charge to the parents. She said there was a lot of pushback about not getting it done and that was one of their "selling points" when she said she wasn't going to pay for it. Seems like fraud of some kind.
I mean, if insurance fully covers it, then the parents don't get charged. That's not fraud. That's just how that works. It's weird the hospital was so pushy about it though
"Now that your son is born, would you also like us to cut off a bit of his penis? It's only $500 if you have a coupon!"
Do you get to keep the leftovers?
Only at hospitals that decline to accept tips.
Nah... they let you keep the placenta, sure, but the doc gets to keep the foreskin for their special baby skin leather doctor's coats.