Sorry for the delayed response Queenluxury - i was at Concept Fertility and it sounds as though maybe Hollywood has a slightly different system... Heres how it worked for us...

The total cost was approximately $6,900 from memory - but we didn't pay anything upfront at all. The EPU day surgery component was sent straight to HBF and paid (we didn't have a gap and never saw a bill for this bit but it was about $800 I think on top of the $6,900 I don't include in that amount as we didn't have to pay it).

We got a bill for the $6,900 after the cycle had finished. I posted the bill to Medicare and about 2 weeks later received a cheque for about $2,200 roughly) - I posted that to Concept. Then I paid the remainder on our credit card (about $4,600 - after paying that I got a receipt for the $4,600 and posted that to Medicare along with the original invoice. I electronically received another $1,500 approximate back into my bank account. Meaning my overall out of pocket amount was about $3,100 for the fresh cycle.

I always assumed we got the second $1,500 back because the second payment of the $4,600 took us over the safety net - does that make sense? We were always told a cycle would he between $3k and 4k out of pocket depending on additional things that may be required eg: assisted hatching, defrosting and regressing embryos (which we did prior to our FET to take our 3 x day 3 embies to day 5 blasts prior to transfer - costing another $750.

The tax thing totally confuses me - but I think as the others say it's 20% of anything over $2000. I believe next year it's 10% of anything over $5,000 but don't quote me on that bit!

Best of luck at Hollywood - I have heard great things about them. Concept were brilliant for me and my FS there has an unbelievable success rate (lately for some reason he is creating LoTs of identical twins

Xx
Thanks darl. I having everything crossed!! I really want a twin but dh doesn't lol I just don't want to go through this again when we are ttc#2
I just start to do acupuncture also n the cost starting to add up now :/ but whatever it take to get my baby, I'll do it