The price paid for long-term solar power purchase agreement (PPA) contracts in 2015 fell below 50 dollars per megawatt-hour (or 5 cents per kilowatt-hour) in 4 of the 5 regions analyzed.
Only in California hospitals was the difference between complicated and uncomplicated delivery charges greater than $6,000 for vaginal births and $10,000 for cesarean births. The highest proportionally in Rhode Island.
Because these prices vary from hospital to hospital, the total cost of childbirth can be difficult to estimate. In 2014, the most recent year for which data are available, the combined median charges for mother and newborn care for a normal, vaginal delivery were $17,184.