IVF Insurance Coverage in California
California has an IVF insurance mandate.
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- Mandate type
- Full mandate
- Egg retrievals covered
- 3
- In effect since
- 2025
Who the mandate applies to
- Large-employer plans: Required
- Small-employer plans: Exempt
- Individual market: Not required
- Self-insured employer plans (ERISA): Excluded — federal ERISA preemption applies
Statute and notes
SB 729 requires large group health plans (100+ employees) to cover IVF: up to 3 completed oocyte retrievals with unlimited embryo transfers. Religious employers exempt. Self-insured (ERISA) plans excluded. Medi-Cal not included.
Citation: SB 729 (2024); Cal. Health & Safety Code § 1374.55
Last verified 2026-04-14.
Fertility clinics in California
85 reporting clinics (CDC ART 2022).
- HRC Fertility-Pasadena — Pasadena
- UCSF Center for Reproductive Health — San Francisco
- Reproductive Science Center of the San Francisco Bay Area — San Ramon
- Spring Fertility-San Francisco — San Francisco
- San Diego Fertility Center — San Diego
- Reproductive Partners-Beverly Hills, Redondo Beach & Westminster — Redondo Beach
- Reproductive Medicine Associates of Northern California — San Francisco
- Southern California Reproductive Center — Beverly Hills
- Life IVF Center — Irvine
- Pacific Fertility Center — San Francisco
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