Summary of IVF Cost Reduction

There are several ways in which to lower the costs for IVF and improve quality in which we are leaders. There are some clinics that simply charge less by doing slipshod work, and we abhor that. There are many relatively poor quality OB-GYN doctors who have been kicked off of hospital staffs who are opening cheap IVF clinics with the idea or making an easy dollar by cutting quality, and who have little depth of knowledge. We recently performed a successful low cost IVF on a patient who had gone through eleven previous IVF cycle failures at such a bargain rate clinic. She wound up spending a fortune on all these failures before we finally achieved her goal in just one properly performed cycle. We have also seen many patients come from such office IVF settings to our hospital with life threatening hyperstimulation syndrome from poorly managed IVF stimulation and of course they endured a huge hospital bill for the intensive care required to save her life. To avoid such charlatans, you will need to understand and research IVF carefully.

The first requirement is to have the most perfect industrial-grade laboratory conditions. This results in better quality embryos with high pregnancy rates even in patients with otherwise lower prognosis. The second is that with our remarkable freezing technology, considered the best in the U.S., subsequent frozen embryo transfers, which cost very little, will give you even higher pregnancy rates because your endometrial uterine lining is more perfectly synchronized to the stage of embryo development than in a fresh stimulated cycle. Thus you have more chances per retrieval of eggs for pregnancy. The third is that we have developed a novel method of ovarian stimulation that is very mild and less drug intensive called mini-IVF.

Mini-IVF is not suitable for all cases, but it is clearly the least expensive and most comfortable way to undergo IVF. Its only disadvantage is less frozen embryos for future babies, but for many couples that is preferable anyway. But even when conventional stimulation IVF is required or preferred (because of the greater number of embryos), overall cost is reduced because of the technical perfection of our freezing protocol, which results in many more embryos transfer opportunities at dramatically lower cost than a fresh IVF cycle.

The American College of Pathologists (CAP) inspects American IVF labs every two years and issues reports on the IVF laboratory's quality. Our lab has been rated as one of the very best in the U.S. It is our compulsive attention to quality and detail that produces our great results in some of the most difficult cases, and is why our CAP inspection reports are at the highest possible level. Ultimately these better results are the best method for cost saving.

More details of costs for these different approaches can be discussed with our office personnel after your initial consultation, which is completely complimentary.