Table 4c: Live Births by Financial Coverage and Mother's Race/Ethnicity - Births Recorded In NYC 2007

Category Total2 Number Total Percent Race1/Ethnicity
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.