Table 4c: Live Births by Financial Coverage and Mother's Race/Ethnicity - Births Recorded In NYC 2007
Category | Total2 Number | Total Percent | Race1/Ethnicity | |||||||
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White Number | White Percent | Black Number | Black Percent | Other Number | Other Percent | Hispanic3 Number | Hispanic Percent | |||
All Births | 124,540 | 100.0 | 65,674 | 100.0 | 39,030 | 100.0 | 19,732 | 100.0 | 40,466 | 100.0 |
Primary Financial Coverage* | ||||||||||
Medicaid | 66,995 | 53.8 | 29,734 | 45.3 | 26,108 | 66.9 | 11,106 | 56.3 | 28,119 | 69.5 |
HMO | 21,040 | 16.9 | 12,641 | 19.2 | 5,282 | 13.5 | 3,093 | 15.7 | 5,655 | 14.0 |
Other Insurance | 33,594 | 27.0 | 21,949 | 33.4 | 6,763 | 17.3 | 4,854 | 24.6 | 5,968 | 14.7 |
Self Pay | 2,503 | 2.0 | 1,231 | 1.9 | 686 | 1.8 | 585 | 3.0 | 619 | 1.5 |
Not Stated | 408 | 0.3 | 119 | 0.2 | 191 | 0.5 | 94 | 0.5 | 105 | 0.3 |
* Reporting differences exist between NYC and Non-NYC for the variable "Financial Coverage". In this table, Financial Coverage by race/ethnicty is limited to Non-NYC recorded births and NYS residents. The total number of NYS births is the sum of the totals reported in Tables 4b and 4c.
1 Race coding based on 1990 Census categories: White, Black, Other, Not Stated.
2 Total Births includes births with race= "Not Stated".
3 Hispanic is a separate count equal to Hispanic White + Hispanic Black + Hispanic Other + Hispanic Race Not Stated.