The other day I was looking on Yahoo Answers and found some responses concerning tubal reversal cost that were just wrong. In this article, we'll go over a couple of these and a better answer for each from a couple of the best tubal reversal doctors. You will see this misleading information about tubal reversal cost is wrong.

First off, before I begin, you might do better to actually perform a search with a search engine on the topic of tubal reversal cost rather than asking on a site like Yahoo Answers or WikiAnswers. This way you will be getting the straight information from actual sites of tubal reversal doctors and not from someone who may or may not know the actual facts.

Some question were just straight out requests for tubal reversal cost prices, such as the lady who had decided to have the surgery but had no idea of the cost. A respondent told her that the prices were at least $10,000 and on up to $20,000. This, of course, depended upon the doctor. And the answer stated that the success rate for tubal ligation reversal is less than 50%. I'll address this next. As for the price range offered, the answer was correct to say that the price could get quite high, up to $20,000 and even higher. However, many of the top tubal reversal doctors do not charge that amount. In fact, the leading reversal surgeon at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center only charges $5900 with the discount applied. See his website for more information.

Furthermore, the success rate that was quoted in that answer, less than 50%, is wrong. While success rate does depend upon many things, including the surgeon's skill (the more experienced he is the better), it is better than 50%, not less than. A study conducted at the Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center in 2007 shows a success rate after tubal reversal of up to 87%. Check it out and you will see how different factors do affect the outcome.

Some answers to the tubal reversal cost questions provided quite high numbers. There was the one question that got the answer that these reversal operations cost at least $20,000. Here, I can only say, not from the leading tubal reversal doctors. Most often, you will hear about prices like this from doctors who do this procedure a couple times a year rather than from surgeons who do these just about every day, several times a day, like the surgeons at CHTRC.

Several answers given just told the person asking the question that reversals are expensive, without stating a number, and told them to just do IVF (with the occasional one saying to adopt). The reason given for just going to IVF was that you might end up with IVF anyway as reversals don't always succeed.

To this I state that on average, IVF costs $10,000 to $12,000 per cycle with an average of three cycles being required. On average, tubal ligation reversal costs $8,000 to $9,000 with only one surgery and you get to try and try over and over each month to have a baby. That can be fun. Again, there are tubal reversal doctors who specialize in doing only this surgery and nothing else (meaning they have lots and lots of experience) who charge a lower cost than the average.

One last answer given that I really have to address was one given a couple years back about how "surgery is like good shoes. You pay more for quality." To that I have to say, not necessarily. In fact, it appears that the leading in the world, such as those at Chapel Hill Tubal Reversal Center, are among the services with lower prices. In fact, they usually charge less than you would find in your local area by contacting OBs, as the answer further suggested. You will find that not only do they usually cost less, they also have much better training and much more experience in performing the operation.