Will the Medicare rebate being removed make a difference to you?

[{sarah}]

With the Medicare rebate for ART coming to an end in January (I think it's confirmed??), will it make a difference to when you do a cycle? We were planning an FET sometime next year, but now are seriously considering whether to do one before the rebate is taken away from us. Are we nuts!?

So has it affected you the same way? Will there be lots of September bubs next year because everyone is cycling in December?

[Amaryllis]

The rebate isn't being removed completely, they are just capping the extended Medicare Safety Net.

For us, yes it will make a difference. I am doing a FET cycle at the moment and if it is unsuccessful I am probably going to argue for a stim cycle before the end of the year before using up any more of my frozen embryos.

[{sarah}]

Sorry yep I knew that, I worded it incorrectly With only $550 rebate it virtually is being removed IYKWIM.

[briggsy's girl]

we've talked about it a fair bit, and decided to have a big gap to give nature a chance before we go back, if we even will. we probably would have started mid to late next year but i doubt that we will now. if we start to seriously consider it again, we'll be finding out the breakdown of costs first - and may try IUI again - might even see if we can find something like letrazole and see if it works for me where clomid didn't. full ivf will be, for us, too exxy if i want to only work part time rather than full time

[butterfly_warrior]

In some ways yes, in other ways, no.

It means that we will simply use what frozen embryos we have and then that's it. But that's the position my health places us in anyway - no more stim cycles for me. Not with Sam to care for now.

I know a lot of people are jumping in to go earlier than intended so they can still take advantage of the full rebates, and I have to admit that it is somewhat tempting, but once again, my health makes that impossible.

I just worry that we'll find ourselves in the situation where we just can't afford to use the frozen embryos we have.

BW

[Jessie001]

Yes sadly will make a difference for us, we always wanted 3 kids but I don't think we will do IVF again we will probably just try acupunture and chinese herbs and see how it goes.