Interesting what it says about Nicola Ruxon stating patients paying $6000 or less for treatment won't be effected..... not very specific - wonder if this means per cycle or $6000 for the treatment per calendar year?
Our stim cycles are $6170...... and from what I can gather is fairly average?
Great to see it hasn't been put to bed as a done deal - although I wonder what hope we have after Dec 2009
I don't really object to them means testing the medicare rebate even though it would definitely impact us...as I see this as kind of fair - but the ivf cut backs were clearly not thought through and are not a suitable means for addressing the concern re: specialist fees...and it is now being said that these fees may be rising only in line with costs of treatment and not just lining specialists pockets...clearly not enough research was put into this proposal
Thansk for the link to the committee report - certainly an interesting read.
I am praying that this does not go through. If it does, it is the end of our IVF treatment.
And that comment by Roxon about $6000 and not being extra out of pocket - complete load of crap if you do the sums.
Gargy - In response to your earlier post, we've yet to jump on the IVF train, but have been told it's by far our best option of getting that BFP. We weren't going to be rushed into making a decision, but with these proposed changes, I'm pretty sure we'll now try to get at least one cycle in this year, although I am concerned that we may not have fully exhausted all our other options. Idealistic as it sounds, we wanted to give ourselves as much chance to conceive naturally as possible, and were happy we still had a bit of time up our sleeves. Now, there's another clock besides the biological one ticking...
we booked ours for October , Because frankly even if you save just a little , You are still saving and who really knows if the first attempt at ICSI is going to take . Dont get me wrong we were always going to do it , But it meant we decided to start a few months earlier . As Canberra Fertility Centre explained it seems that each procedure will have an item number and a set amount that can be claimed!
When I worked in Health insurance a few years back items numbers had set medicare scheduled fees ( this usually meant that the paitent was left out of pocket.
All though they state that specialists fees are too much and that they beleive that specialists will be forced to charge less ( this does not occur when you pay 65-120 to see a gp and get back 33.00 ) I would have preferred that they didnt have the baby bonus at all ! Or the stupid 900 stimulus that also got issued to dead people and pets , What an abs stuff up that was!!
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