To proceed with a funded cycle, schedule a consultation with a physician at Hannam Fertility Centre.

A Ministry of Health (MOH) Consent form will need to be signed and submitted for MOH approval as part of the process. Your care team will support you through this process.

The Government of Ontario provides funding for one IVF cycle per eligible person through the Ontario Fertility Program (OFP).

If you have already completed a funded IVF cycle in the past, you will not be eligible for another funded cycle under this program.

Your funded IVF cycle includes the following:

• Medical care: physician and nurse consultations, assessments and counselling

• Cycle monitoring: bloodwork and ultrasounds as required during cycle

• Retrieval procedures: one egg retrieval, sperm collection including sperm thaw for donor sperm or frozen sperm

• Lab services: one round of embryology services to fertilize the eggs and culture the embryos including ICSI, assisted hatching, and blastocyst culture

• Embryo care: freezing, thawing, and culture of embryos from that cycle

• Transfers: transfer of all resulting viable embryos (one at a time)

There are some expenses that are not covered under the Ontario Fertility Program. These include:

• Certain diagnostic tests

• Fertility medications

• Additional testing (such as genetic testing, PGT-A, PGT-M)

• Storage fees for sperm, eggs, or embryos

• Shipping or transport fees

We recommend checking your employer benefits or private health insurance, as many plans offer coverage for fertility care and can help offset these additional costs.

You may also be eligible for the Ontario Fertility Treatment Tax Credit, a refundable credit that builds on the existing Medical Expense Tax Credit. This credit covers 25% of eligible fertility-related expenses—up to $5,000 per year—and can include costs such as diagnostic testing, travel for treatment, fertility medications, and IVF-related expenses.

For couples proceeding with reciprocal IVF, both patient and partner must be approved for funding at the same time.

The patient who will undergo the embryo transfer procedure will be the person using the funding.

If the other partner who did not undergo an embryo transfer later wants to undergo IVF and carry a pregnancy, they may also be eligible for funding.

Funding for egg freezing for fertility preservation is only offered in select medical circumstances, for example if a patient requires chemotherapy for cancer treatment.

Yes. Patients can switch to another clinic even if they are currently on another clinic’s waitlist.

If you have already signed a MOH funding agreement with that clinic but have not yet started treatment, you can request to have your funding agreement retracted. Then, you can transfer to a different clinic.