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.
At the low end of the HCA pay scale was Las Colinas Medical Center in Texas, where the average cost of a c-section ranged from $1,692 to $2,071, and a vaginal delivery cost between $1,304 and $1,594.or vaginal deliveries, the study reports, 86% was covered, and for cesarean births, 87%. Yet in 2010 these patients were still responsible for out-of-pocket costs averaging $1,686 for vaginal deliveries and $1,948 for cesarean births. This reflects an increase in out-of-pocket costs of nearly fourfold since 2004.