ok, if ONLY the planning and management fee is to be capped, and the "medical" side of things is to be left as it is at the moment, it may not be AS bad as it seems. i have just looked up my medicare history online for IUI's last year and found we got charged a little over $700 for the planning and management - if it's capped at $550 PER CYCLE and charges are along this vein, but you still get the other charges rebated as you have been, it makes it more tolerable. unfortunately i can't look at my medicare claims history going back to full IVF cycle but if anyone else can, it may help to see what the impact is going to be

i think this is going to be a very "murky" for a few months, but just wanted to pop my head in and say if they ONLY cap the pay out on the planning and management fee (which is the bit the doctors manage to bump up all the time) then it may not be "as bad" as it firstly seemed. still bites, but if it is ONE number being impacted, not all of them, it's going to be not as bad as it seemed. for me, that code was 13209... i don't know if the code is different for IVF than it was for IUI - if that is the only one being capped though, it may not prevent us trying again in the future... if all codes are being capped, there is no chance in hell we'll be able to afford it for at least a few more years...