Hey guys feel like a total idiot, talked to ai, looked at Mexican websites and was under the impression I needed to pay a yearly fee for my wife to access imss facilities. Was hoping she could use it for prenatal, fertility stuff, potentially pregnancy and delivery and possibly psychiatric and her mental health medication as well. Seemed like the best "insurance" option since labs and appointments were getting expensive. I was hoping all this would be covered but unsure.
So we pay and wait till the end of the month for it to activate and go to the imss hospital and no one asks for a member card and they told us to go to different free locations, like hospital de las mujeres. So what did I pay for? Was this ever 12,000 pesos a year? Is it not anymore? Fan I get all this stuff done through here for real?
We got turned away at la hospital de las mujeres but I think it could be that we didn't explain what we needed properly. They looked at her prescription from a private gyno maybe they didnt have the specific kind. I'm not sure, but either way can't we just start over there and see a new gyno? Can we get the tests done there free, they were expensive? Seems like we wasted a lot of money and so any advice on how to navigate the Public health system, what's free and how to access it would be very appreciated.
Hospital de las mujeres, I think because of miscommunication sent us to our local centro de salud and they gave her some prenatal vitamins but then I think referred her to a private gyno, what we had before paying for the imss. So we basically went to a bunch of places wasted the whole day and seemingly wasted the yearly fee. 😭 I hate these payment forms in mexico. Not the first time we lost money on something similar. Anyways brutal. Any advice appreciated
Tldr:
Spent money for yearly imss, seems to be free? How do we access free services now then, to try to cover as much mediation, psychiatric, fertility/prenatal help for free.
Edit: I went to imss bienestar and they told me about all the free stuff, didn't realize there was only one UMF, paid imss facility in my town, no gyno. Maybe not worth it