In vitro subsidy for Olsztyn residents.

Eligibility criteria for the health policy programme:

Couples who cannot fulfil their reproductive plans through spontaneous conception and who meet the following criteria will be eligible for the Programme:

• the woman's age is between 20 and 42 years (according to her year of birth);
• meet the conditions set out in the Act for undertaking in vitro fertilisation treatment in the context of partner or non-partner donation or entering into an embryo donation procedure;
• Couples with oncological conditions for fertility preservation through cryopreservation of gametes or embryos are quickly eligible;
• are residents of the city of Olsztyn;
• have agreed to cover the costs of storing cryopreserved embryos and their eventual cryotransfer themselves,

as well as for the possible cost of oocyte cryopreservation.

Amount of funding

The attending physician may qualify the couple for one of the subsidised procedures:

Up to £6,000:

• co-financing of in vitro fertilisation procedures in the framework of partner and non-partner donation

Up to £3,000:

• funding of embryo donation procedures

Conditions for exclusion

Couples who are found by a doctor to have one of the exclusion conditions will not be eligible for the Programme:

• potential risk of failure to respond correctly to ovulation stimulation: follicle stimulating hormone - FSH above 15 mU/mL on day 2-3 of the cycle or anti-mullerian hormone AMH below 0.7 ng/mL;
• recurrent pregnancy loss in the same relationship (more than three documented miscarriages);
• inadequate response to correctly performed ovulation stimulation, as demonstrated by failure to obtain oocytes in two stimulation cycles;
• defects of the uterus that make it absolutely impossible to carry a pregnancy;
• no uterus.

Programme enrolment:

• hotline: 500 900 888,

• e-mail: invimed@invimed.pl