The other day I was looking on Yahoo Answers and found some responses concerning tubal reversal cost that were just wrong. In this article, we’ll go over a couple of these and a better answer for each from a couple of the best tubal reversal doctors. You will see this misleading information about tubal reversal cost is wrong.

However, before we get to setting things straight here, you might want to understand that doing a Google search on tubal reversal cost will give you the sites of tubal reversal doctors where they actually publish their prices. Doing this, rather than hoping to get good information from answer sites, will give you the facts. And if a doctor does not publish his price on his website, most likely there will be a way to contact him to get the information.

In one request about tubal reversal cost, the questioner admits she will go through the procedure but has no idea of the cost. She just wants some idea. And an answerer provided the information that the procedure costs at least $10,000 and up to $20,000, depending upon the surgeon, with a less than 50% success rate. Although that range is decent for doctors that do not specialize in reversing tubals, it misses the mark for specialists that do only this type of surgery. For instance, the doctors at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center only charge $5400 and $5900 with the discount for early payment.

And that success rate in the answer is way off for the general population undergoing this procedure. Depending upon the factors looked at, such as tube length, age and type of ligation, the success rate can be up to 87%.

On another question, although the answer chosen as the best was very good, one answer giver guessed that the cost was probably $20,000 at least, if not more. Again, this is extremely high for a surgeon who specializes in untying tubes but not unheard of from a doctor who may do one or two such surgeries a year.

Sometimes the answers give to the questions of tubal reversal cost were simply that the operation is expensive and that the questioner would do better with IVF. The answer proceeded to say that since reversals don’t always have a positive outcome, you might have to “use IVF anyway.”

To set this straight, I will use the numbers for the averages. You might, indeed, find a clinic or doctor who charges less than these numbers, and for reversals you certainly will, but it is best to compare averages to get a feel for the numbers. With IVF, you will be charged, on average, $10,000 to $12,000. This is a per cycle cost and it takes three cycles on average for success. If you use frozen embryos on succeeding cycles, it might cost less. To compare, on average, a tubal reversal costs $8,000 to $9,000, with only one surgery being needed to be able to try and try again to conceive.

In one answer given a couple years ago, the old “you get what you pay for” was trotted out comparing the surgery to shoes and stating you have to pay more for quality. The answer also said to just call the local OBs to find out what they charge. First off, if you have done any looking around the Internet, you will know that the world’s best tubal reversal doctors, like the ones at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, charge prices that are lower than the average tubal reversal cost. They have a better background, training and experience than you will find in the vast majority of your local OBs concerning this procedure. This is not a case of you pay more and get more experience. So please keep that in mind and do your research.