Insurance for Fertility Treatment?

The concept of health insurance to cover medical illness started catching on in the 1940’s and the current system of health insurance has evolved with surprisingly little change. Of course there was the start of Medicare in the late 1960’s to cover the seniors, the development of PPO’s and HMO’s, Medicaid to cover the indigent population and most recently, the …

Does insurance coverage influence IVF success?

An article in the September 2010 issue of Fertility & Sterility examines the influence of a non-medical factor, insurance coverage, on IVF outcome.

They studied 91,753 fresh, nondonor IVF cycles in the United States and compared those conducted in states with mandated insurance coverage for IVF with those in states which did not mandate coverage. Cycles conducted in nonmandated states …