What is the Cost of a Vasectomy Reversal?

The cost of a vasectomy reversal is always much more expensive than the initial vasectomy. It ranges from $4,000 to $ 20,000 depending on the inclusions such as the stay at the hospital or ambulatory care center, the operating room charges and cost of anesthesia. Since most health insurance will not cover the cost of vasectomy reversal, you will need to obtain funding on your own.

Current statistics show that fourteen percent of those who undergo vasovasostomy, a type of vasectomy reversal, experience a failure of the operation. When it comes to the other kind of vasectomy reversal, vasoepididymostomy, the failure rate is even higher at forty percent. This should be enough for you to consider that the cost of vasectomy reversal could go to waste if it is not successful.

You can opt to pay through cash, credit card or with the assistance of a medical financing service. These medical financing services can provide you with a loan based on an interest rate and payment terms that you have both agreed upon so that you can finance the cost of your vasectomy reversal and have it done immediately.

Alternatives to a Vasectomy Reversal

On the other hand, the cost of a vasectomy reversal should always be considered in light of the other alternatives that are available to you if you have decided to have children again. For starters, if you would not like to go through another surgery, you can opt for sperm retrieval or harvesting and then subsequent in vitro fertilization. In this method, sperm will be taken from your testes and an egg will be taken from your partner. The sperm is injected into the egg and the egg is then returned into the uterus of your partner. The only downside for this would be that the rate of success in terms of eventual pregnancy remains quite low.

Another alternative would be intracytomplasmic sperm injection. In this method, sperm is injected into your partner's egg directly. While the pregnancy rates of this method are higher compared to in vitro fertilization, at this time, however, there is still a very low 18% chance that you could get pregnant. It could also cost up to $75,000, which will definitely leave a dent in your bank account.

Still, compared to these two assisted reproductive techniques, a vasectomy reversal is still recommended because it is a permanent resolution. The other two techniques will allow you only one pregnancy for each time that you go through it but a vasectomy reversal gives you the freedom to have as many children as you want once it is considered successful. Note though that there is a much longer ‘waiting period’ when it comes to a vasectomy reversal, since the sperm flow may not be restored until a period of about a year or more has elapsed.