PGD Fees

Genea offers a unique method of payment that requires NO UPFRONT FEE.

This structure will help relieve you of much of the financial burden of IVF treatment.

Check out the PGD Assistance Program.

The Genea Difference:

• Your cycle payment is not due until after embryo transfer
• Unlike other clinics, your out-of-pocket timeframe is 5 days instead of up to 5 weeks
• We will lodge your paid invoice with Medicare on your behalf - you do not have to visit a Medicare branch and your refund is deposited directly into your bank account
• You will have your own patient relationship coordinator to explain the process and answer questions

Out-of-pocket costs - Cycle payment is not due until after embryo transfer (ET)

Monitoring of your cycle by your own Genea doctor, including:

• Pathology tests at Genea approved labs
• Ultrasounds performed by Genea approved ultrasound service providers.

Egg collection available 7 days a week

• When the time is right for you
• Always by your own Genea doctor (unless unforseen circumstances arise)
• On-site, eliminating the need to move your embyos.

No extra costs for local anaesthesia

Blastocyst culture is routine

• Genea has an unmatched success rate with transfer of blastocysts, fresh or frozen.

There will be some additional costs associated with:

• Doctor's consultation
• General anaesthesia (if required)
• Pre-diagnostic tests
• Drugs that are not covered by Medicare, such as Lucrin, Provera, Synarel, Orgalutran and progesterone pessaries.

PGD Services Genea Offers

PGD PCR cycle

Polymerase chain reaction (PCR) is a method of amplifying a small piece of genetic material to get enough of it to examine. A single cell taken from an embryo can be tested in this way for a particular disease. The most common PCR test we do is for cystic fibrosis, but Genea has actually tested for over 100 different diseases.

PGD translocation cycle

Chromosomes occur in pairs in all cells except sperm and eggs. If part of one chromosome is found connected to a completely different chromosome it's "translocated". For that person there is no net gain or loss of genetic material, so the translocation is "balanced" and there is no problem. But when that person makes eggs or sperm, some of these will have too much or too little genetic material. The same will be true for an embryo that results. The chromosomal translocation will then be "unbalanced" and the embryo will sooner or later usually result in a miscarriage.

PGD CGH screening cycle

Comparative genome hybridisation (CGH) is a method of seeing all the chromosomes in a cell. It is used to check embryos for aneuploidies such as Down syndrome.