New DNA Test is Basis for Groundbreaking IVF Refund Plan

Fri, 06 Mar 2009 - NEW YORK, N.Y. — The Sher Institutes of Reproductive Medicine (SIRM) announced today the introduction of the world’s first CGH-Risk Sharing Plan that guarantees qualified IVF patients a baby or offers a full refund of the clinic’s medical fees. CGH is an acronym for Comparative Genomic Hybridization - a genetic process that analyzes the chromosomal integrity of the egg or embryo prior to it being transferred to a woman’s uterus in the course of In Vitro Fertilization. CGH reveals whether an egg or embryo has the correct number of chromosomes.

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Affordable Fertility Program

FREDERICK, MD - With the poor economy, It's hard enough to be able to afford just the basic necessities. But it's even harder on couples who want to have children but can't. Now there's hope. A local fertility center is giving women the option to share an egg donor and split the cost.

While the program isn't new, the number of women trying to get pregnant through it is. Shady Grove Fertility Center has seen a 300% increase in participants, and they're not just in the Four State Region, they're coming from all over the world.

Here's how it works: If there's one donor to one recipient, it will cost $52,000. If there's one donor to two recipients, it will cost $37,000. If there's one donor to three recipients, it will cost $29,000, which is the most economically friendly program.

"I just get kind of choked up thinking about it,” says Dr. Melissa Esposito with the Shady Grove Fertility Center. “I think a lot of people have this stereotypical feeling that a lot of patients who do donor egg are older patients who waited a while to have children, but that’s not always the case."

Those who choose participate in the program have a sixty percent chance of getting pregnant.

Another trend the fertility center is seeing during these hard times is more and more women who are choosing to sell their eggs.

For more information about the Shady Grove Fertility Center, click here.

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Egg-donor agencies offer guaranteed options

CHICAGO — Three egg-donor agencies in Illinois have joined forces to offer a first-in-the-nation guarantee for would-be parents: If a young woman who agrees to provide eggs to an infertile couple changes her mind, they can select another donor at any of the agencies for a relatively minimal fee.

The cooperative arrangement, launched last week, comes amid anecdotal reports that more women are inquiring about becoming paid egg donors in the current economic downturn. Even before the financial crisis, this niche of assisted reproduction was growing rapidly, fueled in part by older couples trying to have children.

Through the new Shared Donor program, the three agencies can offer such couples a wider array of potential donors, enhancing the prospect of a timely match. Nancy Block, president of The Center for Egg Options, said the agencies had been helping one another informally but recently "realized we should be doing this routinely."

Typically, if an egg donor doesn't pan out, a couple gets back most of the money promised to the young woman for her time and effort. Donor fees are about $7,000 in the Chicago area; usually, all but $1,500 will be returned.

But agencies don't offer refunds on their administrative fees, about $5,000 on average. For access to another agency's donor list, they previously would have had to pay a second time. The Shared Donor program eliminates the extra charge and substitutes a one-time $400 fee per family.

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IntegraMed Extends IVF Shared Risk® Refund

IntegraMed Extends Shared Risk® Refund In Vitro Fertilization Program Options to Include Additional Services for Egg Donor Recipients

Additional Services Include Donor Recruitment, Screening, Compensation and Embryo Storage

PURCHASE, N.Y.--(BUSINESS WIRE)--IntegraMed America, Inc. (NASDAQ: INMD) announced today that it has expanded the scope of services available for donor egg recipients under its innovative Shared Risk® Refund Program for in vitro fertilization (IVF) . Under IntegraMed’s Shared Risk Refund IVF program, patients are entitled to a refund of up to 100% of the fee paid to IntegraMed should their IVF treatments not result in a take home baby. The new package will be offered exclusively by selected members of IntegraMed’s network of participating fertility centers.

With the expanded array of covered services, donor egg recipients enrolling in IntegraMed’s Shared Risk Refund Program now have the option to include additional fees for egg donor recruitment, screening, and compensation, as well as donor medications, anesthesia services, and the cryopreservation and storage of embryos. Typically, almost half of the total IVF expense for donor egg recipients is due to such out-of-pocket expenditures. The new enhanced package from IntegraMed covers these additional services (however covered services may vary from one fertility center to the next).

Patients may elect to enroll and pay a flat, up-front fee for either the standard donor egg recipient program, which covers only medical treatment for the egg donor and recipient, or the new enhanced services donor program.

In both the new program and the standard program, donor egg recipients are eligible for up to three IVF cycles and unlimited frozen embryo transfers (using eggs retrieved during the stimulated cycles performed during program participation) at no additional cost. As with other Shared Risk Refund Program offerings, if IVF treatment using donor eggs should fail, up to 100% of the fees paid to IntegraMed will be refunded.

“We have expanded our Shared Risk Refund Program offerings in response to the needs of patients receiving donor eggs,” said Pamela Schumann, President of IntegraMed’s Consumer Services Division. “Nearly half of all donor egg recipients will need more than one IVF cycle to be successful. Our new program helps patients pay for a multi-cycle course of treatment, including the costs typically associated with egg donors, while preserving their resources for other options if treatment should fail.

“Donor egg recipients represent the fastest growing segment of IVF volume nationally, according to a 2006 report published by the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology,” continued Ms. Schumann. “This latest enhancement makes the Shared Risk Refund Program even more attractive to these patients and will help drive the growth of the program.”

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