Crowdfunding for IVF

There is no doubt that IVF is expensive and couples use a variety of resources to pay for it. Those who can afford it, pay cash. Others may be fortunate to have insurance to cover most of the cost. Yet others look to family for help or borrow from their savings or a loan company.

Here’s a new idea: crowdfunding.

Acording to an article in USA Today some are turning to strangers for help.

“It was just kind of out of necessity,” said Eric Heilman. He and his wife Jillian started a GoFundMe page hoping to raise $19,000 to cover the cost of egg extraction and medications for in vitro fertilization.

Doctors told the Heilmans their chances of conceiving naturally were next to zero. IVF was their only option. They considered adoption but that can be costly, too. When they heard about other couples who had crowdfunded to raise the money for IVF, they decided it was worth a shot.

“We didn’t really want to ask for money from our friends, but we also weren’t sure how much of our infertility stuff we wanted to share. But, after we started sharing, we realized how many friends we had who went through that that we never knew about,” said Jillian Heilman.

One in ten couples suffers from infertility and, in many cases, IVF is their last hope if they want their own biological children. So far, the Heilmans have raised about $4,300 through their GoFundMe page as well as through a charity poker tournament they organized.

“As hard as it is to put our names and faces out there, we really hope it helps other people. It’s not about us, but it’s about the situation,” Eric said.

This may not be a practical approach. RPMG offers help through a wide variety of plans including low cost financing through CapxMD and since it may take more than one cycle to be successful, multicycle discounts through the Attain program. One of our most popular program is the SUCCESS PROGRAM: if you do not achieve a 12 week viable pregnancy in two cycles when you have paid the full Global Rate, you get the third cycle free.