Tubal reversal success depends on two main factors the type of tubal ligation and the age of the woman at the time of tubal reversal surgery.
The tubal reversal success rate can be as high as 80% for women who are under the age of 30 and also for women who have had tubal clip or tubal ring type tubal ligations.
The tubal reversal success can also be as high as 30-50% for women over the age of 40 or those who have had unknown types of tubal ligations. Even among women over the age of 40 or women with unknown types of tubal ligations approximately 1 out of 3 women will become pregnant.
Tubal reversal success rates can be impressive when patients choose the best tubal reversal doctors in the United States. The success rate for tubal reversal can be as high as 80% for certain groups. Women interested in determining if they are a candidate for tubal reversal surgery and what their reversal success rate may be are encouraged to review the pregnancy statistics on the website of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center and to call and inquire about their chances of tubal reversal success.
If you have ever wondered if you are a candidate for tubal reversal surgery then you should send the operative report of your tubal ligation to Dr. Berger and Dr. Monteith for review.
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center will be having a busy surgical schedule in the spring of 2011 as couples use their income tax return money to pay for tubal reversal surgery. Fertility treatment, which includes reversal of tubal ligation, is an allowable medical expense that can be used for a tax deduction.
Tubal Reversal Message board member 'redcurlsk ' explains
"Your itemized expenses need to be more than your standard deduction for it to matter. The standard deduction for a Married filing jointly couple is $10,300. If you have itemized deductions that total more than this then you can itemize and use them. Your medical is only a portion of this amount because the allowable deduction is the amount over 7.5% of your adjusted gross income. For example - if your income is $100,000, then your allowable medical has to be more than $7,500, and then you can only deduct the amount over the $7,500. If your medical totalled $10,000, then you could use $2,500 of it. Medical can be Drs. Dentists, copays, prescription meds, glasses, contacts, and health insurance. There are some more, but these are the majors. You can also deduct travel to and from the Dr and the trip to CH. All of this goes into the number that is reduced by 7.5% of AGI. Other amounts that you can itemize and most people use are their mortgage interest, personal property tax, real estate tax, contributions, both cash and items that they give to Good Will, etc., and state withholding tax. Again there are some more, but these are the main ones. Employee business expenses sometimes come in handy here, but that is a whole other topic. Your best bet is to go to the IRS website and read about it. A lot of people don't get to use their medical expenses, but if you had your TR in 2006, then you really should check and see if it will help you out since this is probably the only time that your medical will be this high."
'stephg124ny' adds
"You have to itemize. You can claim your airfare, hotel, and food as well if you have receipts. It can be quite a good deduction." http://forums.tubal-reversal.net/cgi-bin/ultimatebb.cgi/topic/5/23491.html
Posted by Susana (Member # 8255) on May 20, 2006 05:17 PM:
Hello ladies!
I had my TR on 4/24/06 and during my visit the subject of whether or not TR can be written off came up. My job deals with taxes and tax situations and I went on the IRS site and found Publication 502 which lists what is and isn't a valid medical expense and the following excerpt was noted:
Fertility Enhancement
You can include in medical expenses the cost of the following procedures to overcome an inability to have children.
* Procedures such as in vitro fertilization (including temporary storage of eggs or sperm).
* Surgery, including an operation to reverse prior surgery that prevented the person operated on from having children.
This could help a bit in offsetting the cost of the procedure. I know my husband was glad I found this out and my TR buddy AJ suggested I post it on the boards for everyone to see. (Thanks AJ!)
Good luck to all!
Posted by SandyJ (Member # 9696) on May 22, 2006 02:24 PM:
Great info Susana.
Posted by Sally, RN (Member # 7389) on May 22, 2006 02:44 PM:
Susana--I'm sure this is valuable information for many of the women who read the board. Thanks so much for posting it.
Sally, RN
CHSC
Posted by empty nested (Member # 7303) on May 22, 2006 03:30 PM:
You can only deduct a PART of your medical and dental expenses that is more than 7.5% of your adjusted gross income. (Combined income if you are married). If your medical and dental expenses are less than 7.5% of your adjusted gross income, you cannot claim the deduction on your taxes. All expenses must have been paid during the current tax year. If they were expenses that you were reimbursed for (example: medical flex plan dollars, or insurance) you may not include them as medical expenses.
To figure if the deduction would work for you you need to do the following:
1. figure the amount you paid for qualifying medical expenses after reducing the amount of payments you received from insurance and other sources. This total = X
2. figure out (estimate now) your adjusted gross income.
3. multiply your adjusted gross income by 7.5% (.075) to get total Y.
4. If total Y is more than the amount you figured in step 1 (X), you cannot claim a deduction. If it is less, subtract Y from X to figure out how much you can deduct.
It's a neat concept, but unless you have a very low income or very high medical bills it is difficult to claim.
Posted by Susana (Member # 8255) on May 22, 2006 06:57 PM:
Thanks for the calculation info!
Susana
Posted by KLJ (Member # 7534) on May 22, 2006 09:55 PM:
Can't you also claim milage and hotel cost?
Posted by empty nested (Member # 7303) on May 23, 2006 10:35 AM:
Yes you can. Milage, rental car or taxi, air fare etc...any means to get to your medical appointment. You can also claim a portion of your meal expenses.
Keep your receipts. I kept everything but still didn't qualify. This year I dumped over $8,000 into my medical flex benefits at work to be sure the government didn't get their share.
Sheila
We offer a free consultation with an experienced Tubal Reversal Nurse to women interested in a Tubal Ligation Reversal. By talking one-on-one with our nurses, you will understand why Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is the best place to have your tubal ligation reversed
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Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is offering a 10% discount for those scheduling surgery before January 1, 2011.
Women who wish to schedule surgery to have their tubes untied can now receive an additional 10% discount on top of the the already discounted all-inclusive cost for tubal reversal surgery performed by Dr. Berger $5900 and $54000 for surgery performed by Dr. Monteith. For a limited time only, Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center has announced a special 10% off coupon on Google Maps. For women looking to have their tubal ligation reversed in 2010, this coupon will allow them to save 10% off of their reversal surgery fee. Call (919) 968-4656 for more details about this special discount.
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is offering a 10% discount on the tubal reversal procedure if scheduling before January 1, 2011. Julia Smith Nurse administrator says Often women and couples will inquire when the discounted rate will be so that they are able to save on the expense.
Tubal ligation reversal does not have to be so expensive that the average couple cannot afford to have
fertility restored. Many who research the procedure are shocked in the variations in price between surgeons and centers.
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is able to offer this outpatient procedure at the lowest of cost all throughout the year. This is because this unique Center performs only tubal ligation reversal surgery and the repair of blocked fallopian tubes.
The Center performs surgery four days a week. Staff to patient ratio is kept high so that the patent is well taken care of. CHTRC makes it known that patient care and safety is the top priority.
Dr. Berger and Dr. Monteith not only perform the ligation reversals that are more common but also the Essure as well as Adiana reversal. This has been a blessing to those women who are having physical discomfort and do not want a full hysterectomy.
Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center offers a variety of payment arrangements, including a pre-payment plan, for women who come to have their tubes untied by Dr. Gary Berger and Dr. Charles Monteith. Dr. Berger and Dr. Monteith are well-known as the doctors with the most experience in repairing tied tubes. Their low-cost, one-hour operation has resulted in the birth of the most tubal reversal babies worldwide.
Over 8000 couples have traveled to Chapel Hill, North Carolina to have fertility restored and their tubes untied with the tubal ligation reversal procedure. The surgeons have a 98% repair rate and 2/3 of patients are pregnant within the first 12 months.The nurses and doctors of Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center make it simple for women wanting tubal ligation reversals.
Women who are interested in having another baby after a tubal ligation should have their tubal ligation operative reports sent to Dr. Berger or Dr. Monteith for review. At Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, the tubal reversal doctors and nurses will contact patients within 24-48 hours of receiving these medical records. Even if someone is unable get a copy of their tubal ligation operative record, they can still schedule ligation reversal surgery. They can choose to have a diagnostic laparoscopy to make sure the tubes are reversible or they can rely on the fact the tubal reversal specialists are able to repair the fallopian tubes in over 98% of patients.
To inquire if you are a candidate for tubal reversal surgery, call a Tubal Reversal Nurse for a free telephone consultation at 919-968-4656.
Deciding to have children is a big step just as the decision not to have them also is. Most times women will take precautions to prevent further pregnancies- including tubal ligation, which is when the fallopian tube is cut to prevent an egg from becoming fertilized. This is generally the most popular method and is considered to be a permanent form of female sterilization.
So, what happens when a woman changes her mind and decides she wants another child? The first question they want to know is how to conceive after tubal ligation?
Even though this is meant to be a permanent procedure it doesn't mean that the future is set in stone. In fact, a woman can opt to have it reversed. It is a procedure called tubal ligation reversal and it has proven to have a high success rate. The doctor usually performs them in the office in less than an hour.
Many women choose to have this procedure when they have changed their mind about more children, or if it has been changed for them. Sometimes this decision is their own doing and sometimes it is strictly based on life circumstances. Divorce, death and remarriage of a spouse or something as simple as just changing their mind can all lead to making this monumental choice.
If you decide to go this route there are a few things that you should know about the procedure. First of all, it is usually not covered by insurance which makes you responsible for the entire bill. Some insurance companies may cover a portion or the doctor’s office may have a payment plan of some kind. The good news is that without complications the recovery time is quick and as the months progress your chances of becoming pregnant should continue to improve.
There is another option, but it does not reverse the ligation. It is called an IVF, or in vitro fertilization. Here, a fertilized egg is placed in the woman's uterus. But it is not the preferred choice for the following reasons. The procedure is quite expensive and must be done for each cycle where a woman wants to try to get pregnant. If it doesn't take, which is common, then she must start over. That means more money each time she tries.
Tubal ligation reversal by Dr. Monteith is a 1 hour, low cost outpatient procedure. Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center is the only facility in the US exclusively for tubal ligation reversal and surgery for blocked fallopian tubes.
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