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Finding financial assistance for tubal reversal is the one of the first things you start looking for after making the decision that you want the surgery. It can be rather expensive and if you can get some help, that will make it more likely you can go through with what you want to do.

Finding some financial assistance will usually start with looking at your own health insurance to see if it will cover some or even all of the costs, if you are lucky. This can take some looking on your part. That will start with looking through your insurance policy at surgical procedures and the testing required before surgery to see what exclusions are made.

You may find that your health insurance company will not cover this surgery. They consider it to be an elective procedure. That simply means you are not doing it for health reasons but simply because you want to, however great that want might be. Health insurance is to cover health issues, supposedly, and your insurance company may simply say no to what they consider to be elective.

Once you have looked through your health insurance company’s policy, you may luck out and discover that certain aspects of the procedure will be covered. Such things as the tests carried out prior to the surgery and the anesthesia during the surgery might just be covered.

Perhaps the best thing to do, after looking at the policy, just to be sure, is to call the office of the surgeon you want to do the procedure and get all the procedural and diagnostic codes. Find out from your insurance company how they want these delivered and, from these, they should be able to tell you just what is covered and what is not.

You may be lucky to find that your insurance company is one that will provide financial assistance for tubal reversal surgery. Is yours Blue Cross/Blue Shield? However, the coverage will still depend upon different things.

Although this may vary from insurance company to insurance company (never let it be said we know their minds), some will want to know if this is happening in your state of residence. There are legal requirements on a state by state basis they may have to follow including the allowance of fertility procedures. Unfortunately, that doesn’t necessarily mean tubal ligation reversal surgery is in the allowances.

Unfortunately, even after you go through all the hoops above and finally discover that your insurance company will provide the financial assistance for tubal reversal, you could find that they will not pay up front. They will want you to have the procedure and the follow ups as required by the surgeon and only then will they pay. To cover himself, the doctor will probably want written confirmation before he proceeds and it would be a good idea for you as well, just in case the insurance company decides to change policy during your process.