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Follow on Google News | Fertility and Infertility — How to Choose a Fertility ClinicFertilityAuthority gives you the best advice on selecting a fertility clinic, which is an important part of your family-building journey
Fertility Clinic Success Rates While fertility clinic success rates are not the only factors that should be taken into consideration, they do offer important information about each fertility clinic if they are read carefully. Fertility clinic success rates for every clinic in the United States are published in the Assisted Reproductive Technology Report. Success rates include those for fresh, non-donor egg IVF, fresh donor egg IVF, and frozen donor egg in vitro fertilization (IVF). Along with success rates, the ART Report also lists the types of diagnoses treated and fertility treatments offered. When looking through these success rates, it is important to read them carefully. Pay close attention to the total cycles performed, as well as the types of patient diagnoses treated and the age breakdown of success rates. Fertility Clinic Professionals When choosing a fertility clinic, it is also help to take the whole fertility professional team into consideration. At many fertility clinics, this includes nurses, infertility therapists, financial advisors, embryologists and staff, as well as your fertility doctor (reproductive endocrinologist) Personally visiting each fertility clinic you are considering can give you information that is not available in a report. Visiting the fertility clinics will allow you to interact with the staff and observe how they treat their patients. Fertility Clinic Location and Office Hours Fertility treatments often require frequent appointments, sometimes even daily appointments. Because of this, it is important to take the distance and location of your fertility clinic into consideration. While driving two hours to a fertility clinic occasionally may seem feasible, it may not be realistic to do this daily. However, some fertility clinics do offer satellite office locations aside from their main clinic, so be sure to inquire about that at your visit. Along with location, office hours probably are not the first criterion you consider when choosing a fertility clinic. However, if you work full-time, especially in a place where time off is not very flexible, choosing a fertility clinic with evening or weekend appointment hours for office visits, fertility testing, and fertility treatments may be necessary. Fertility Clinic Accreditations It may also be helpful to choose a fertility clinic that is a member of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology. In order to be members, fertility clinics must meet certain ethical and practical standards. SART creates practice guidelines and standards to ensure fertility clinics operate under the highest ART standards. There are practice guidelines regarding assisted hatching, blastocyst transfer, and gamete and embryo donation, among other guidelines. Fertility Treatment Cost Fertility treatments can often be costly, especially since more than one cycle of treatment is often necessary. You may want to choose a fertility clinic that accepts your health insurance plan or offers payment plans or financing. You may also want to choose a fertility clinic that offers cost-saving options like IVF Refund Programs, Low-Cost IVF Options, or Shared IVF Cycles . # # # FertilityAuthority (http://www.fertilityauthority.com) is the only web portal dedicated to fertility. FertilityAuthority encourages women and men to be proactive regarding their fertility and provides the tools and information to do so: best-of-breed content written by health care writers and journalists and vetted by reproductive endocrinologists; End
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