Financing and Success Rate of Tubal Ligation Reversal Surgery

Women sterilization is the best option for those women who do not want children. A report by the National Center for Health Statistics shows that, women ages 25 to 35 choose to use tubal sterilization for birth control. Tubal ligation is a very effective way to achieve permanent infertility in women through a surgical procedure called “tubal ligation surgery”.

The procedure of tubal ligation is often called "tying the tubes," but in reality the fallopian tubes may be tied, clamped, blocked or cut, but after couple of years many women who have had their tubes tied wanting children again. In these cases, surgery to reverse the procedure may be an option. Tubal ligation reversal surgery helps to restore fertility and unblocked fallopian tubes naturally.

What is a tubal reversal surgery?

Tubal ligation reversal is surgery to reopen, untie, or reconnect a woman's fallopian tubes that were blocked by the tubal ligation. The surgery is performed on women who previously had their tubes tied. Reversal surgery takes approximately 90 minutes and patient can go home on the same day.

Recovery time from the surgery is generally short and most patients are able to return to work or other normal activities within a week to 12 days. Tubal reversal is a single time, permanent and effective procedure that has a high success rate of pregnancy. 

What is the success rate of tubal reversal surgery?

The average success rate of this surgery is around 80%. If you are under 35 and in good fertile health, your tubal reversal success rate will likely be high. This percentage can be higher or lower depending on your age, the type of tubal ligation surgery you had, eggs and other medical conditions. 
Type of tubal ligation is the biggest factor that can increase and descries pregnancy success rate because if your tubes were cut or burned during your sterilization procedure, your tubes might be damaged or too short to reconnect.

How do pay for tubal reversal surgery?

There are many couples who trying to get a grant for this procedure because this is little bit expensive. Here are some financing ideas for those who want reversal surgery.

1: Insurance coverage:

Contact your insurance company that they will cover all or some part of the cost because most of insurance companies do not cover tubal reversal surgery.

 2: Care Credit: If insurance

company is not covering tubal reversal payment plane then you have another option called “CareCredit”.  CareCredit is a health care credit card that can be used as a payment option.