Infertility is a heavy blow to the family, and the inability to have children will also make them regret for life, but the emergence of IVF technology has changed the life trajectory of many infertility patients, and having a healthy child is indispensable to every happy family. For patients, the most concerned thing about doing IVF is the cost of surgery in addition to the success rate, so is it expensive to do IVF? Where are the costs spent?
Hengjian Overseas said that the cost of IVF is divided into two parts, one part is medical expenses, and the other part is service costs (including food, housing and travel), and medical expenses are the majority of the entire IVF course.
The cost of IVF generally includes the following aspects:
1. The cost of examination of both husband and wife
When after screening, the infertile couple has been instructed to undergo IVF technical treatment, in order to ensure the quality of sperm and eggs, both husband and wife should undergo a physical examination related to the treatment. These include: blood type, blood routine, liver and kidney function, hepatitis B and C examination, semen culture, culture of vaginal secretions, syphilis screening of both sides, screening of AIDS, examination of cervical cancer, examination of chromosomes, etc. These tests are necessary, and if there are abnormalities, it is necessary to start IVF treatment after the treatment has healed.
2. Drug ovulation induction and follicle monitoring costs
Drug ovulation induction and follicle monitoring is a key part of IVF embryo transfer, due to individual differences, each patient uses a different dose of drugs and the time of use of drugs, in addition to ovulation induction drugs are more varieties, and the price is different, so the cost of this link is different from person to person. In general, young women, with good ovarian function, require slightly lower drug costs. Conversely, it may be high, especially at the age of 35 years old, endocrine examination shows poor ovarian function, and the ovaries will respond poorly to drugs, so the amount of drugs will be large and the time will be long.
Follicle monitoring is important in ovulation induction, and doctors evaluate the development of each follicle and perform multiple ultrasound examinations. According to the examination situation, the dose of Y or the drug is adjusted in a timely manner. These tests are calculated in the cost of treatment.
3. Surgery costs
The surgical fee refers to egg retrieval surgery, laboratory embryo culture (including sperm, in vitro treatment of eggs, in vitro fertilization, in vitro culture of embryos), embryo transfer, intracytoplasmic sperm injection, etc.
4. Embryo freezing fee and embryo management fee
When the remaining embryos after embryo transfer can be cryopreserved for future use, in general, the embryos can be cryopreserved for 5 to 10 years.
5. Embryo transfer fee
When it is necessary to use frozen embryos, it is necessary to choose the appropriate transfer time, thaw the embryos on the day of transfer, if the thawed embryos are good, you can carry out the transfer operation, this part of the cost is not calculated in the current treatment cost.
6. Other expenses
If you continue to use fetal protection drugs after pregnancy, or the cost of OHSS treatment in treatment, as well as the cost of fetal reduction, are generally not included in the cost of treatment.
Hengjian overseas reminder: Thai ivy baby cost is generally around 160,000-200,000, if the patient is in childbearing age, physical condition and fertility status is better, then relatively speaking, IVF treatment will be more smooth, the cost is relatively small.