Your fees will vary depending on your exact treatment path. The team will discuss this in detail with you once this has been decided.
MINISTRY OF HEALTH FUNDING
In December 2015, the Ontario government launched the Ontario Fertility Program to provide funding to help eligible patients build their families. Access to funded fertility services is available for all forms of infertility (including medical and non-medical infertility), regardless of gender, sexual orientation, or family status.
Every single patient will have a different fertility journey. This also means that when the program says it will cover one full IUI or IVF treatment cycle, the services that make up that cycle will vary from person to person. Your physician will determine an appropriate treatment plan for you.
The Ontario Ministry of Health covers:
- Your initial fertility consultation
- Most investigative tests
- Most blood tests
- Ultrasound examinations
- Cycle monitoring for diagnosis and treatment
- Intrauterine insemination (IUI)
The Ontario Government also offers 1 cycle of IVF per lifetime for every woman in Ontario if you have a valid Ontario Health card and are under 43 years of age. You must agree to sign a release of information to allow the Ministry of Health to view your chart to confirm this procedure for audit purposes. This procedure includes cycle monitoring, egg retrieval, ICSI, assisted hatching and embryo freezing. It also covers the transfer of any frozen embryos in a subsequent cycle, as long as they were created from the original funded IVF cycle.
The Ontario Ministry of Health does not cover:
- Any medications you are required to take during the course of an IUI, IVF, or frozen embryo transfer cycle
- Sperm washing prior to an intrauterine insemination procedure
- The cost of any sperm required to do a donor insemination for IUI or IVF
- The storage of any fertilized eggs (embryos)
- Any adjunctive procedures associated with the IVF cycle, e.g. pre-implantation genetic testing
- The cost of donor eggs
- The cost of using a gestational carrier