Does Shady Grove charge for a consultation?

[Anonymous]

This would be donor egg shared risk program. Thanks.

[Anonymous]

Yes $350.00

[Anonymous]

I don't think our consult was that much and you should DEFINITELY see whether your insurance will cover the initial consult. They often do. Also, even though we have run out of infertility insurance coverage, we asked them to submit the bills to our insurance company anyway. Because Cigna have negotiated rates with SG for all this stuff, even though we had exceeded lifetime infertility cap of $30,000, we paid much much less for all the consults and ultrasound leading up to the appointment.

I had to pay about $600 for the HSG OOP, but everything else leading up to DE -- two consults, a mock estrogen cycle, at least three ultrasounds, a bunch of blood tests -- came to about $500 after insurance negotiated rates were factored in.

Now there's the $36,000 DE expense itself, though...

[Anonymous]

nothing in life is free except food stamps.

[Anonymous]

OP here. My insurance does cover s#!t so I'm totally out of pocket.

[Anonymous]

My consult at SG was free, or maybe that was just considered my initial appointment? I have no fertility insurance and paid nothing. I had done one IUI at another clinic and went to SG to get their opinion before making the next step.