by Dr. Geoffrey Sher | Aug 28, 2024 | Cost, Cost of IVF Treatment
Insurance Benefits Insurance Benefits is a complex journey that both our patients and our staff travel through daily. Sometimes that path is clear and easy, and other times it can be a journey fraught with pitfalls. We hope this post helps explain how those...
by Dr. Geoffrey Sher | Oct 3, 2023 | Cost, Cost of IVF Treatment, Egg Banking, egg competency, Egg Donation, Egg Freezing, Embryo Transfer, Fertility Preservation, Financial, In Vitro Fertilization, IVF
For more than 50 years, scientists have been working to perfect the art of freezing and storing a woman’s eggs, also known as “egg banking”. Although there have been challenges, the progress has been both amazing and promising. Since the birth of the first...
by Dr. Geoffrey Sher | Sep 29, 2023 | Age and Fertility, Cost of IVF Treatment, Embryo, Embryo Freezing, Genetically Testing IVF Embryos, IVF for older women, IVF Genetic Screening, NGS
More and more American women are exploring IVF treatments in their late 30s and in their 40s. This trend often stems from the choice to pursue their career dreams before starting a family. While this delay is completely understandable, it presents challenges, as...
by Dr. Geoffrey Sher | Dec 11, 2018 | Cost of IVF Treatment
Given rapidly changing practices in the IVF arena, it is becoming increasingly implausible to reliably interpret current national reports expressing IVF outcome statistics as birth rate per initiated treatment cycle, per egg retrieval procedure or per embryo transfer...
by Dr. Geoffrey Sher | Feb 8, 2016 | Cost of IVF Treatment
There are about 1.0 million infertile couples in the United States, for whom IVF offers the only rational opportunity to have a baby. About 10% of these women (100,000) undergo approximately 150,000 fresh IVF cycles annually. This represents a significant...
by Dr. Geoffrey Sher | Feb 8, 2016 | Cost of IVF Treatment, Failed IVF, Infertility, IVF
The dictionary defines “evidence based medicine” as follows:“The practice of medicine in which the physician finds, assesses, and implements methods of diagnosis and treatment on the basis of the best available current research, their clinical expertise, and the needs...
