MMC Benefits Handbook
Reproduction
The following fertility treatment-related services:
- All charges associated with a gestational carrier program for the person acting as the carrier, including but not limited to, fees for laboratory tests.
- All costs associated with surrogate parenting including, but not limited to, donor oocytes (eggs), donor sperm and host uterus.
- Assisted Reproductive Technology procedures done for non-genetic disorder sex selection or eugenic (selective breeding) purposes.
- Cloning.
- Cryopreservation and other forms of preservation of reproductive materials except as described under Fertility Treatment. This exclusion does not apply to short-term storage (less than one year) and retrieval of reproductive materials for which Benefits are provided as described under Fertility Preservation for Iatrogenic Infertility and Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT-M and PGT-SR) and Related Services.
- Long-term storage (greater than one year) of reproductive materials such as sperm, eggs, embryos, ovarian tissue and testicular tissue.
- Donor services and non-medical costs of oocyte or sperm donation (e.g., donor agency fees).
- Embryo or oocyte accumulation, defined as a fresh oocyte (egg) retrieval prior to the depletion of previously banked frozen embryos or oocytes (eggs).
- Natural cycle insemination in the absence of sexual dysfunction or documented congenital or acquired cervical disease or mild to moderate male factor.
- Ovulation predictor kits.
- Reversal of voluntary sterilization.
- Infertility treatment with voluntary sterilization currently in place (vasectomy, bilateral tubal ligation).
- Infertility treatment following unsuccessful reversal of voluntary sterilization.
- Infertility Treatment following the reversal of voluntary sterilization (tubal reversal/reanastomosis; vasectomy reversal/vasovasostomy or vasoepididymostomy).
- Pre-implantation Genetic Testing for Aneuploidy (PGT-A) used to select embryos for transfer in order to increase the chance for conception.
- Services for partners, spouses, and the maternity expenses of gestational carriers not covered by the Surest Plan.
- Treatments considered Experimental by the American Society of Reproductive Medicine.