BELLFLOWER, Calif., Jan. 28 (UPI) -- A woman in Bellflower, Calif., is likely facing more than $200,000 in medical bills after giving birth to eight babies, a medical official says.
Steven M. Donn, who heads up the University of Michigan Health System's Division of Neonatal-Perinatal Medicine, said the unidentified parents of the recently delivered octuplets likely accumulated quite a hospital bill, ABC News said Wednesday.
"You can think of it as an eightfold increase on a singleton birth," Donn said in regards to the octuplets' birth, specific details of which were not reported. "By comparison, the mother's care will probably be a bargain."
The delivery costs for a normal full-term pregnancy can reach up to $25,000 depending on birthing methods. The costs for pre-term births typically surpass average birthing costs.
Donn said the additional precautions taken for the octuplets' birth likely increased the base financial tally for eight pre-term births.
"For reasons we don't completely understand, risks with multi-fetal deliveries are greater than (normal births)," he told ABC News.
