Infertility and In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF)
If you are having challenges building your family, you are not alone. VA understands the stress this can create - we are here to support Veterans seeking to build their families.
Connect with a care coordinator
Tanya Sallis BSN, RN
Infertility and IVF Care Coordinator
VA Madison health care
Phone:
Veterans should contact their local VA medical facility to schedule an evaluation with a VA provider (e.g., primary care provider, gynecologist or urologist).
For questions regarding eligibility and services, contact the Women Veterans Call Center at
Eligibility
Enrolled Veterans are eligible for a fertility evaluation and certain treatments. Some may be eligible for in vitro fertilization (IVF) and advanced reproductive treatments if they meet criteria and have a service connected disability that’s found to be causing the infertility.
Infertility benefits
- Consultation and evaluation by a fertility specialist
- Labs, tests, procedures
- Medications
- Genetic counseling and testing
- Intra uterine insemination (IUI)
- Cryopreservation storage
IVF benefits
Veterans must have a VBA-adjudicated service connected disability (SCD) or treatment that caused the infertility. For partners to be covered, the Veteran must be lawfully married
In addition to fertility services available for all eligible Veterans, IVF benefits provide:
- IVF treatment including counseling, evaluation
- Six attempts to create embryos
- Three completed embryo transfer cycles
- Cryopreservation of sperm, eggs, embryos