Hi beautiful girls,

Thanks for the welcome back messages. I called Medicare today and they said that the cheque was posted on Friday so I should get it today or tomorrow.

Im curious to see how our FS compares to yours. So far the bills we have received are:

$268 that our private health cover didnt cover which is basically the excess and my work pays that anyway as we are on a corporate plan.
$880 from our FS for Planning and management of patient (what a joke considering I didnt speak to her the entire cycle!), Ooctyte retrieval for assisted reproductions and transfer of embryo. From what I can gather from the item numbers and using the medicare website then I should get about $405 of this back.

Then we got a bill from the clinic which was $7555 for assisted reproduction, $810 for ICSI and $95 for semen prep (as we used frozen sperm) - When I rang medicare this morning they said we are getting a cheque for $3327. Which means we are still over $5000 out of pocket just for this portion!!!

To be honest it doesnt matter how much googling I do...the medicare safety net still confuses the crap outta me!!!