Table 4c: Live Births by Financial Coverage and Mother's Race/Ethnicity, Births Recorded In NYC - 2006
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 | 121,300 | 100.0 | 64,166 | 100.0 | 39,079 | 100.0 | 17,900 | 100.0 | 40,172 | 100.0 |
Primary Financial Coverage* | ||||||||||
Medicaid | 66,443 | 54.8 | 29,752 | 46.4 | 26,433 | 67.6 | 10,193 | 56.9 | 28,687 | 71.4 |
HMO | 20,033 | 16.5 | 11,862 | 18.5 | 5,250 | 13.4 | 2,887 | 16.1 | 5,295 | 13.2 |
Other Insurance | 32,117 | 26.5 | 21,181 | 33.0 | 6,550 | 16.8 | 4,344 | 24.3 | 5,493 | 13.7 |
Self Pay | 2,468 | 2.0 | 1,309 | 2.0 | 746 | 1.9 | 411 | 2.3 | 656 | 1.6 |
Not Stated | 239 | 0.2 | 62 | 0.1 | 100 | 0.3 | 65 | 0.4 | 41 | 0.1 |
* 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 t he 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.