What meds do you have to pay for?

[Maruschke]

Progesterone ends up costing me about $4 a day... and ovidrel, if I have to pay for it, is $85. But I am sooo excited that it is free, means we can move on to the next thing without worrying about cost.

[Baby Dreamtime]

My latest stim cycle included all meds including twice daily crinone for 14 days. FET I have to pay for prog support myself which is $185 for a box of 15 crinone. Yikes!

Glad to hear out of pocket is so little, and wishing you luck for your cycle xx

[~ Mylitta ~]

One really important thing you should check if you have private health insurance is their rules about what meds you can claim and how you need to receive them. With HBA I found out (after I had bought all the meds) that I could only claim money back on them if I had got a prescription from the IVF clinic doctor and bought the meds from the chemist. As I had bought the meds directly from the clinic they wouldn't cover any of the payment for me AT ALL! I was astounded. Even the girl at HBA that I spoke to was amazed that this was one of their rules and had no idea why it was the case.

[Maruschke]

I don't have private health insurance - all of my meds are covered by Medicare.

[nothing2lose]

If you want to spend serious money, do IVF

[~ Mylitta ~]

I don't have private health insurance - all of my meds are covered by Medicare.

Gosh! That's great that your meds are all covered! We had quite a large out of pocket expense for a lot of our stuff in both of our IVF/PGD cycles

[lise]

I did an antagonist cycle through MIVF and all our meds were included, apart from orgalutran which wasn't covered by Medicare nor my private health insurance. Unfortunately this was $90 a shot and I needed it for five days per cycle...

[hayldrew]

All of our meds are supplied at no additional cost for IVF cycles (included in their fees I guess), so for FET cycles we have been using our left over drugs from previous IVF cycles. We should have enough supplies for a couple of FET cycles. But I think after that we will need to pay for our meds on FET cycles Not looking foward to that. So remember to keep all your drugs from past cycles - they might come in handy and save you some $ for future cycles

[~ Mylitta ~]

I did an antagonist cycle through MIVF and all our meds were included, apart from orgalutran which wasn't covered by Medicare nor my private health insurance. Unfortunately this was $90 a shot and I needed it for five days per cycle...

It was orgalutran that HBA told me they would have partially covered if I had got it from the chemist with a prescription instead of directly from the clinic...