kaiser definitely covered progesterone (vaginal inserts) for us.

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Anonymous wrote:Hi,

My husband and I are looking at IUI, but the prices are huge -min $1,200 and we have the most expensive insurance with United. Could you please tell me what clinic did your IUI for about $500?

Thanks

At SGF, the IUI itself is under $500 (and we pay half for Kaiser). Clomid, trigger, and progesterone are also pretty inexpensive--under $100 all told after insurance. There are copays for ultrasound and bloodwork (we pay $30 a time). The real variance comes with sperm--we use donor and that costs probably $800/cycle.

I did IUI with Kaiser. The costs were still pretty high. It cost me about $350 for all the preliminary testing (HSG, blood work, sperm analysis) and then my last IUI with meds was $800. I had to have more monitoring than they expected and each time was $135.

Also note that after you're pregnant they want you to keep coming in for monitoring and bloodwork which adds several hundred dollars more. And Kaiser doesn't cover progesterone so I'm paying $80 every two weeks until I can stop taking it at 12 weeks. My OB won't see me until 10 weeks so I'm hoping to get a prescription for it then and it would be covered under insurance.

Anonymous wrote:Id go straight to IVF. I don't know one single couple with male factor where IUI had worked.

Yep. My friends who've done iuis with mf all say it was a waste of time.

Anonymous wrote:

Anonymous wrote:Hi,

My husband and I are looking at IUI, but the prices are huge -min $1,200 and we have the most expensive insurance with United. Could you please tell me what clinic did your IUI for about $500?

Thanks

At SGF, the IUI itself is under $500 (and we pay half for Kaiser). Clomid, trigger, and progesterone are also pretty inexpensive--under $100 all told after insurance. There are copays for ultrasound and bloodwork (we pay $30 a time). The real variance comes with sperm--we use donor and that costs probably $800/cycle.

I called SGF too and their price was $1,600 , without donor sperm..ufff guess missed the cheaper period. Thx.

Anonymous wrote:Hi,

My husband and I are looking at IUI, but the prices are huge -min $1,200 and we have the most expensive insurance with United. Could you please tell me what clinic did your IUI for about $500?

Thanks

At SGF, the IUI itself is under $500 (and we pay half for Kaiser). Clomid, trigger, and progesterone are also pretty inexpensive--under $100 all told after insurance. There are copays for ultrasound and bloodwork (we pay $30 a time). The real variance comes with sperm--we use donor and that costs probably $800/cycle.

Anonymous wrote:Im only 31. My RE is very confident that it will work, Im just skeptical bc I dont want to waste money that could go toward IVF.

IMO, IUI isn't much better than timed intercourse if you aren't using injectables. Odds are like 10%.