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Financial support: IVF Fund

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FINANCIAL SUPPORT FROM THE IVF FUND  

You are a heterosexual or female same sex couple and you want a baby. For more than a year this wish has remained unfulfilled. The medical clarification of the causes of your infertility has shown that pregnancy can only be achieved with the help of modern fertility treatments. Medical insurance does not cover the costs of these treatments. For this reason, since the year 2000, fertility couples have been able to benefit from the IVF Fund, which supports the financing of IVF treatments. The Fund will cover 70% of the costs if certain conditions are met.  

WHO IS ENTITLED TO SUPPORT FROM  THE IVF FUND?  

The IVF Fund Act provides for the following conditions: 

  • The  couple  must live in an  upright marriage, registered partnership or  marriage-like cohabitation. 
  • Same-sex couples  are entitled to benefits if the woman who will carry the child, meets the medical requirements. 

  • Diagnosed female sterility, due to endometriosis, Fallopian tube obstruction or polycystic ovarian syndrome. 

  • Diagnosed male sterility 

  • All other means of inducing pregnancy have been unsuccessful. 

 

The appropriate diagnosis must be determined by a specialist before the start of a fertility treatment. 

If a sterilization has been carried out by one of the partners at their own request, there is no right to financial support by the IVF Fund. The claim can be asserted, however, if the sterilization has been carried out for medical reasons. 

At the beginning of the fertility treatment, the woman who intends to deliver the child may not have reached the age of 40. The man or the partner must be under 50 years of age. If the age limit is exceeded during the treatment, the IVF funds will support the costs of the ongoing treatment. Support for further treatments by the IVF Fund is then no longer possible. 

Both partners must have proof of performance responsibility. 

This can be issued by: 

  • The statutory health insurance 

  • A health care facility 

  • Private, Austrian health insurance 

  • A private, foreign health insurance 

Persons who have statutory health insurance in other EU countries or in Switzerland must submit an S1 form issued by their respective insurance if they live in Austria. If they live in EU / EEA countries, they need the S2 form. These forms guarantee that the costs of the IVF treatment are borne by their health insurance funds. In cases in which private insurance companies do not issue a consent to reimbursement of costs, provided that all the other eligibility requirements for both partners of the couple exist, that portion of the costs can be borne by the couple themselves after examination and approval by the Austrian IVF fund. This approval must be obtained by the couple before the start of a treatment. 

Entitlement to costs under the IVF Fund exists for: 

  • Austrian citizens 

  • Citizen of an EEA member state 

  • Citizen of the Swiss Confederation

  • Persons who, as dependents of persons entitled to vested benefits of an EEA Contracting State or the Swiss Confederation, have a right of residence under EU law pursuant to §§ 54 or 54a of the Settlement and Residence Act (NAG), BGBl. I No. 100/2005 

  • Persons who hold residence permits according to § 8 Abs. 1 Z 1, 2, 3, 7 or 8 Settlement and Residence Act (NAG) 

  • Persons who have a "residence permit plus" pursuant to § 55 (1) and § 56 (1) Asylum Act 2005, BGBl. I No. 100/2005 

  • Asylum seekers according to § 3 Asylum Act 2005 

Arztzitat - Dr. Mathias Brunbauer

Dr. Mathias Brunbauer

Medical director | SPC for gynecology and obstetrics | IVF-specialist

"The fulfillment of your desire to have a child should not fail because of financial difficulties. Therefore, we are also in the financing of your treatment advisory and support to the side."

The IVF Fund will cover the pro-rata costs of conducting  IVF,  ICSI  and freezing of embryos  (if more embryos are fertilized and cryopreserved for later treatments), as well as MESA  (epididymal sperm retrieval) and  TESE  (testicular sperm retrieval)). 

The  costs  of providingdonor sperm or donor egg cells  are  not supported  by the IVF Fund. The  practice of  insemination  (insertion of semen into the woman's uterus) is also  not financially supported. 

The IVF fund assumes the  partial costs of a maximum of four attempts per couple.  An attempt is considered to be a complete course of treatment from the time the IVF clinic starts the treatment (first-time prescription or administration of medicinal products to woman) up until proof of pregnancy or proof that pregnancy has not occurred according to the provisions of the IVF Fund law. 

An aborted treatment cycle due to lack of success is considered an attempt. However, if an attempt has to be discontinued after oocyte retrieval for medical reasons and any cryopreserved (frozen) embryos obtained are used in the subsequent treatment cycle, these two cycles count as only one attempt. Other than that, each treatment cycle using cryopreserved embryos kept from a previous completed attempt is considered a separate attempt. 

The IVF fund will cover more than four attempts if at least one pregnancy was successfully achieved by methods of IVF. If one of the attempts is successfully completed and a pregnancy is brought about in accordance with the criteria of the IVF Fund Act, the full claim to supportfor four attempts resumes after this pregnancy. 

If you do not meet the requirements of the IVF Fund, you will automatically be considered a privately paying patient. 

 

 

HOW DOES ONE APPLY FOR IVF FUNDING?  

We take care of your application for the funding for you. We see it as part of our comprehensive support to provide you with optimal advice and support in financial matters.  

You can concentrate on the treatment. We will take care of the paperwork.