The Ministry of Health believes that fertility clinics have everything in hand to apply Law 73, which guarantees free in vitro fertilization (IVF) cycle. Press reported Friday that some clinics no longer accept new patients since the introduction of the law, due to a lack of information from Quebec.
“It is false to claim that the clinics do not have all the information to be able to apply the new medically assisted procreation program,” reacted the Ministry of Health and Social Services (MSSS) in a press release on Saturday.
The Minister for Health and Social Services, Lionel Carmant, announced on November 10 that Bill 73 would come into force five days later, on November 15.
The fertility clinic Fertilys, in Laval, had declared on November 13 having to “suspend all registration in the public program, as much for the cycles of insemination as for those of in vitro fertilization, and this, until further notice”, could. – read in a Facebook post. We “still do not have the information and measures that would allow us to proceed, on the announced date, to the registration of patients under the public program,” said Fertilys in the same statement.
The same observation was reported by Press concerning the Ovo and Procrea Fertility Clinic. The two health establishments, however, specified that they continued “to see [leurs] patients who have started treatment under certain conditions ”, on their Facebook page.
The MSSS specifies that it met “all of the assisted procreation centers (CPA) twice” on November 5 and 11. The organization claims to have “presented all the components required for the start of the program”.
A letter explaining the financial aspects of the program was sent to the clinics, and the Régie de l’assurance maladie du Québec (RAMQ) sent a letter to doctors on November 11 indicating the remuneration rates within the new legislation, adds the MSSS.
Since November 15, more than 200 requests for eligibility, both private and public, have been processed and approved. It is therefore unfortunate to note that some private clinics do not follow in the footsteps of their colleagues, ”lamented the MSSS, in the same press release.
Quebec will send a new directive to all private fertility clinics to remind people how the program works.