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13-04-2023

The health insurance funds: 11,000 people have used medically assisted procreation services

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11,300 people – that is the number of people seeking to have a child - have taken the opportunity of the Compulsory Health Insurance Fund (CHIF) to receive free medically assisted procreation services and reimbursable medicines over the past six years. This cost required EUR 14 million from the Fund. The health insurance funds provide a reminder of what medically assisted procreation services are reimbursed and where couples can seek them.

According to the calculations of the National Health Insurance Fund under the Ministry of Health, nearly 3,000 people a year have used medically assisted procreation services in recent years. This is twice as many as in 2017, when these services were just starting to be reimbursed by the CHIF.  

Last year, for example, seven medical institutions in the country provided almost 8,000 different medically assisted procreation services to 1,630 women and 1,308 men. The CHIF allocated EUR 3.6 million to pay for these services and reimbursable medicines.

For couples wishing to use medically assisted procreation services, CHIF pays for two cycles of assisted procreation treatment. The following assisted procreation services are covered by the health insurance funds:

•    Obstetrician-gynaecologist consultation for partners on medically assisted reproduction;
•    Obstetrician-gynaecologist consultation for controlled ovarian stimulation;
•    medically assisted reproduction outside the woman's body by self-fertilisation or intracytoplasmic insemination of semen;
•    retrieval and processing of male germ cells from the testicles;
•    intracytoplasmic semen injection using female gametes stored in a gamete storage bank;
•    a service for the preparation and transfer of embryos stored in a germ cell bank to a woman.

During the medically assisted reproduction consultation with an obstetrician-gynaecologist, the partners undergo the laboratory and, if necessary, instrumental tests needed before assisted reproduction. The health insurance funds also reimburse the medicines used for ovarian stimulation.

People should first contact their family doctor or obstetrician-gynaecologist for a referral to a fertility specialist for reimbursed medically assisted reproduction services. Once the referral has been received, it is possible to register for a consultation at one of the medical institutions that have concluded agreements with the Territorial Health Insurance Funds for the provision of medically assisted reproduction services.  

Currently, medically assisted reproduction services reimbursed by the CHIF are provided by Vilnius University Hospital Santaros Klinikos, Hospital of Lithuanian University of Health Sciences Kauno klinikos, UAB “Jolsana”, UAB “Vaisingumo klinika”, UAB “Northway medicinos centrai”, UAB “Baltijos ir Amerikos terapijos ir chirurgijos klinika” and UAB “Vaisingumo centras”.

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Last updated: 09-05-2023

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