--- title: Your IUD May Get Expensive. Here's How Much It Could Cost description: Data from the health care analytics company Amino shows that President Trump's birth control rule could increase the cost of IUDs nationwide canonical: https://time.com/4985605/iud-birth-control-health-insurance/ author: Alexandra Sifferlin article:opinion: false article:content_tier: free article:published_time: 2017-10-18T15:23:05.000Z article:modified_time: 2026-03-30T12:29:25.336Z article:section: Health og:title: Here's How Much Your IUD Could Cost in Every State og:description: If employers stopped providing contraceptive health coverage og:url: https://time.com/4985605/iud-birth-control-health-insurance/ og:site_name: TIME og:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3e5511a4f790275/69868d56cd804d3956cca9e8/iuds.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 og:image:width: 1500 og:image:height: 844 og:image:alt: IUDs og:type: article twitter:card: summary_large_image twitter:title: Here's How Much Your IUD Could Cost in Every State twitter:description: If employers stopped providing contraceptive health coverage twitter:image: https://static.time.com/v3/assets/bltea6093859af6183b/bltb3e5511a4f790275/69868d56cd804d3956cca9e8/iuds.jpg?branch=production&width=1200&quality=75&auto=webp&crop=16:9 ---  # Your IUD May Get a Lot More Expensive. 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Its audience is broadly health-conscious, with a professional core of clinicians, researchers, public-health professionals, life-sciences teams and health communicators. by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) and [Pratheek Rebala](https://time.com/author/pratheek-rebala/) Oct 18, 2017 3:23 PM UTC  Illustration by Miles Donovan for TIME by [Alexandra Sifferlin](https://time.com/author/alexandra-sifferlin/) and [Pratheek Rebala](https://time.com/author/pratheek-rebala/) Oct 18, 2017 3:23 PM UTC Should you use birth control pills, condoms or an intrauterine device (IUD)? Women choose their [birth control](http://time.com/4108686/birth-control-methods-how-work/) based on many factors, like effectiveness or comfort—but cost has been less of a consideration, ever since the Affordable Care Act. A provision in the act required employers to provide contraception to all women in their health plans without charging a copay or coinsurance fee. Estimates [suggest](https://nwlc.org/resources/the-affordable-care-acts-birth-control-benefit-too-important-to-lose/) that more than 55 million women had access to birth control without co-pays because of the mandate. Going forward, the price of birth control may matter more. On Oct. 6, President Donald Trump rolled back that coverage and issued a new rule that offers exemptions for any employer, regardless of industry, who objects to offering contraception coverage due to his or her personal religious beliefs or moral convictions. Experts don’t yet know what effect the new rule will ultimately have on women’s ability to access birth control. But some worry that the [IUD](http://time.com/the-best-form-of-birth-control-is-the-one-no-one-is-using/)—one of the most effective and low-maintenance types of birth control—could become prohibitively expensive. Without insurance, it’s one of the priciest methods up front, costing about $900\. And though an IUD may be a better financial investment over time, since women can use the device for several years, such a high initial price tag is beyond the means of many women. Health care analytics company Amino analyzed billions of health insurance claims from 2014 to mid-2017 to understand how much an IUD could cost women if their insurance no longer covered it. They analyzed the Mirena and the Skyla IUD, which use the hormone progestin, and the ParaGard IUD, a non-hormonal copper-releasing device. On average, an IUD could cost about $1,000 out of pocket across the country, the group reported. Below is an interactive map using data from Amino of what the typical cost of an IUD could be in each state. (The price estimates are for the total cost of an IUD, including the insertion procedure.) As the data show, the lowest estimated cost is about $800\. “\[An IUD\] is not cheap, and the median price is well outside affordability for many women,” says Sohan Murthy, a data scientist at Amino. Compared to the condom, which has a typical use failure rate of 18%, or the birth control pill, which has a failure rate of 9%, the IUD has a failure rate of 0.8% or less. IUDs also require little to no maintenance for years, and hormone-free versions are available. Once IUDs became more affordable under the ACA, public health groups across the nation launched [public awareness campaigns](http://time.com/the-best-form-of-birth-control-is-the-one-no-one-is-using/) to encourage more women to consider using long-acting reversible contraception like the IUD. The method is [growing more popular](https://www.cdc.gov/nchs/nsfg/key%5Fstatistics/c.htm#currentuse). About 6% of women in the U.S. had tried the method in 2002, but that grew to 15% in 2011-2015\. [Studies](http://time.com/the-best-form-of-birth-control-is-the-one-no-one-is-using/) have also shown that when women have access to all forms of birth control without financial barriers, they are more likely to choose the kind that’s most effective. A long-term study based out of St. Louis called the [The Contraceptive CHOICE Project](http://www.choiceproject.wustl.edu/) enrolled nearly 10,000 women and found that when the women were counseled about all methods of birth control, 75% chose a long-active reversible method, like the IUD. Even before the new rule was announced, many women sought IUD consultations with providers, [potentially in anticipation](https://www.athenahealth.com/insight/trump-effect-iud-visits-rise-after-election) of changes to insurance coverage of birth control. A [January report](http://time.com/4650190/iud-trump-election/) found that the number of women who visited their physician to discuss the birth control method rose nearly 19% after Donald Trump was elected as President. **Methodology** Data is from [Amino](https://amino.com/). Cost per state is determined by taking the median cost of the three types of IUDs in each state. ```json [{"@context":"https://schema.org","@type":"NewsArticle","@id":"https://time.com/4985605/iud-birth-control-health-insurance/","mainEntityOfPage":{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https://time.com/4985605/iud-birth-control-health-insurance/"},"headline":"Your IUD May Get a Lot More Expensive. 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