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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]I have united health care. I did 4 cycles of IUI - 3 letrozole cycles and 1 injectables cycle with follistim (which worked). I can tell you that the meds were not covered by insurance; for 3 rounds of letrozole plus one round of follistim (by far the most expensive one) plus several doses of the ovidrel trigger shot I paid, entirely out of pocket, about $2600. However, much of the monitoring / bloodwork / ultrasounds / appointments / the IUIs themselves were at least partially covered by insurance - and my bill from the doctor for everything (all 4 rounds) was only $1300. I don't know what it would have been without insurance coverage though - I'm guessing a lot more.[/quote]

Which plan? Back when uhc offered it under the federal plan meds were covered. They we're like $300 which was insane and clearly why they dropped off coverage in subsequent years.[/quote]

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And oh wow! Honestly I was pretty pleasantly surprised when we got the bill from the RE - each cycle included several monitoring ultrasounds and blood draws in addition to the IUIs themselves; I had been expecting to owe more [/quote]

Op here - yes those were the good old days.  In hindsight, while we loved the fact that back then you could pretty much get a cycle covered at $3000-$4500 with meds and then not pay anything else for other cycles that calendar year because your deductible had been met, clearly that wasn't sustainable and it's no wonder that UHC/MDIPA was one of the first to drop coverage along with Aetna that same year if I recall correctly followed by Kaiser a year or two later.[/quote]

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