I finally got of hold of the IVF coordinator to ask if it was necessary for John to have a repeat SA for our IVF consult - since he just had one on Tuesday and since the one on Tuesday was ordered through his Uro - it would be covered by insurance and the one for IVF will not be.
The answer was no - they cannot use the one they did on Tuesday because the IVF SA is more detailed and has different requirements then what the Uro requires to be tested. I thought maybe we would be able to get off the hook for one expense - but I guess not. John even said there is not way - they want to make money off of us - they do not care that we are OOP.
I am in the 2ww right now - we had perfect timing again this month - in my heart of hearts I am praying that I am pregnant - but then my logical side says 1% (we were only given a 1% chance of ever conciving on our own) but I still have hope.
I did call John's primary doctor and request a new referral for the Uro. Next week I will call the Uro office to make sure that they received the proper referral and that the RE faxed over the results. I will also call both of our primary doctors and get the referrals for our IVF consult. It cannot hurt. They will try to bill the insurance company first and then if they reject it we will have to pay the bill. So I need referrals in place in order for them to send the bill - I will take a chance - you never know they may cover something.
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I'm sorry about having to come up with the cash for a second SA. That's such a pain in the butt! Here's hoping for a very successful 2ww, though!!
Good luck with all of this it sounds so stressful. I don't understand why they can't make it easier.
That really stinks that they are going to make you go through all of that. It would be really easy to go off on a rant about it, but I'll stop myself there.
As always, sending much love and many prayers your way!
arg. how can they not use it? seriously? seems like they should be testing the same things, right? wonder what's missing??
so sorry that you have to deal with it all! :(
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