Does insurance cover fertility treatments?
Only 15 states have laws requiring insurance coverage for fertility treatments, and the laws vary greatly and have numerous exemptions. See www.resolve.org for the specific laws of each state. Some urological procedures, however, may be covered by insurance. • I had a vasectomy but have remarried, and we now want children together. Should I get vasectomy reversal or have in-vitro fertilization using extracted sperm? Many reproductive endocrinologists recommend sperm extraction and ICSI, in which a single sperm is injected directly into an egg. Yet urologists recommend surgical reversal, allowing men to avoid the high-cost I.V.F. procedure (or several I.V.F. procedures). Men should go to a top surgical urologist as the procedure has become more complicated as vasectomies have gotten more foolproof. Often, along with repairing the vas deferens, the tube that carries sperm out of the testes, the surgeon has to bypass any blockages that have occurred in the epididymis, the duct where sperm
