Does Health Insurance Pay For Essure Reversal?

As a specialty center for Essure reversal, our office staff are frequently asked “Does health insurance pay for Essure reversal?”
Essure was first approved in 2001. At first, not many women opted to have the Essure procedure. Very few Essure procedures were performed.
After the Bayer Health Care Corporation acquired Essure in 2013, more aggressive marketing of Essure occurred, more doctors began offering Essure, and more women opted to use Essure for permanent birth control (sterilization).
It has been estimated that over 750,000 women world-wide have had Essure. The actual numbers of women who have Essure inserted is probably way higher than the often repeated number of 750,000.
Essure sterilization is intended to be permanent. Prior research has shown a significant number of women will regret their sterilization procedure. Some women will consider in-vitro fertilization (IVF) and some will consider surgical reversal of sterilization.
These women will approach their doctors and ask does health insurance pay for Essure reversal or IVF? Unfortunately, health insurance will not pay for either of these treatments.
To better understand why health insurance will not pay for Essure reversal you should understand how health insurance companies look at tubal ligation reversal surgery.
Does health insurance pay for tubal ligation reversal?
Over 98% of health insurance companies will not pay for tubal ligation reversal.
The first tubal ligation was performed in 1880’s...

Source: Tubal Reversal Blog - October 28, 2018 Category: Reproduction Medicine Authors: Dr. Monteith Tags: Essure reversal Source Type: blogs