"It takes longer"

"It costs more to have someone born than to have someone killed!" Tina Fey in Baby Mama

From what I have learned in talking with the infertility nurses and reading stories from different folks there are few people who have a copay or don't have to pay anything out of pocket for infertility treatments. The majority of couples have to pay 50% or 100% of the cost for their infertility treatments.

50% at Kaiser is as follows...

Preliminary lab tests $134.00

Initial visit w/ infertility doctor $140.50

Nurse visit w/sonogram (multiple times a month) $130.00

Follow up visit w/ IUI (once a month) $204.50

Follow up visit w/infertility doctor $95.50

Nurse visit $40.00

Hysterosalpingogram w/inj $351.50

hCG prescription (per month) $ 24.02

Clomid prescription (per month) $14.67

This takes you through first visits, 3 months of treatment on Clomid, and a look inside to make sure nothing is blocked. If one was to move on to the next step it would get insanely more expensive. The injectible drugs which would be used cost between $300-600 a month, and that is just one of the medications and assumes you can get by on the lowest dosage!

I am just sharing because it blows my mind how much those who cannot conceive and want to so badly pay for even a small chance at it.

2010 edit - I wish we could pay these prices now.... it is a marble in a bowl, now we need a whole bowl full of marbles.