Table 4c: Live Births by Financial Coverage and Mother's Race/Ethnicity, Births Recorded In NYC - 2006

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 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.