Fertility treatment costs can be high when advanced technologies (IVF) are required to create a pregnancy. Most patients will conceive using less expensive procedures such as medications and intrauterine insemination (IUI). Our fertility specialists always offer the treatment most likely to result in therapy while considering all factors including infertility treatment cost.
Other ART procedures such as ICSI, assisted hatching or preimplantation genetic diagnosis may be required, which escalates the overall infertility treatment cost. However, using one or more of these procedures may increase the cycle success rates decreasing the possibly for repeat IVF cycles and increased fertility treatment costs.
The cost of IVF includes medications which are expensive and used at individualized dosages. Some women require more FSH for an optimal stimulation than others, thus increasing infertility treatment costs. Sometimes it is possible to freeze (cryopreserve) extra embryos from an IVF cycle for use in future cycles. No ovarian stimulation drugs are required for the frozen cycle greatly reducing IVF treatment costs.
Sometimes it is necessary to undergo more than one IVF cycle to achieve pregnancy. Many of our patients qualify for the IntegraMed Shared Risk® program. Infertility treatment cost is controlled in this program as patients pay for their cycles "up front" and receive refunds if they don't achieve pregnancy. Please see our Shared Risk® Web page.
At The Center for Human Reproduction, New York infertility clinic, we understand that a patient's decision to pursue advanced infertility treatment can be stressful. Because many patients do not have insurance coverage for assisted reproductive technology, financial anxiety can complicate the decision to pursue treatment. Our Financial Counselors are prepared to assist patients by reviewing their options including: |
