by Rocky » 24 Oct 2012, 11:52
You will never find an individual health plan that will cover IVF.
Some employer groups choose to add IVF to their benefit plans, but those are rare. (I've seen thousands of companies benefit plans, and I'd say that less than 3% of what I've seen covered IVF.)
Keep in mind that an employer group can negotiate pretty much whatever they want into a benefit contract with the insurance company. (Though they have to pay extra premiums for all the "extras" that they add.) However, individual health plans are pretty basic...they don't cover very many non-standard items.
If you happened to find an individual health plan that you could customize to include IVF, the premium would be so expensive to compensate for adding that service that you wouldn't be able to afford it anyhow. (And I'd bet my life savings you wouldn't find one to do it anyhow.)