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LOWER YOUR INFERTILITY COSTS (Part VII) Fighting with your Insurance Company; Clinical trials; Shared Risk- Attain Program

 LOWER YOUR INFERTILITY COSTS  Part VII  discusses:

How to fight back and appeal insurance denials for fertility coverage

Infertility is a medically necessary and treatable condition

How to take advantage of various free clinical trials and studies. Go to www.FCIonline.com

Information on 'shared risk' ATTAIN program by Integramed.   Go to www.ATTAINFertility.com

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LOWER YOUR INFERTILITY COSTS (Part VI) Fertility Medications; Negotiations

LOWER YOUR INFERTILITY COSTS (Part VI)  discusses how to save money on medications, especially expensive 'injectibles'. 

Prices vary from pharmacy to pharmacy and can often be obtained for less online or through mail order. It pays to shop around, do your homework … look at Freedom Drug and look at Walgreen’s specialty pharmacy or Healy pharmacy.

Serono offers a ‘medication scholarship’ called Compassionate Care which gives away millions of dollars in free drugs. Serono’s phone number is 866-538-7879.    Ferring has a program called HEART (Helping Expand Access to Reproductive Therapy) program.   Ferring’s phone number is 888-337-7464.

Look for free clinical trials on our FCI website www.FCIonline.com

 

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LOWER YOUR INFERTILITY COSTS (Part V) Initial Treatment Options with the RE; IVF and How to Lower Costs; Understanding the Insurance Maze

Following the initial visit with your RE, additional diagnostic testing may be needed, based on the level of investigation you have had previously. 

Depending on a woman’s age (and ovarian reserve), sperm function testing, a couple’s work schedule and time commitments, insurance, finances and risk tolerance, we can help most couples decide on the treatment options that may be best suited for them.

 

The article discusses reasons RE specialists may recommend IVF : 

How to lower your costs with IVF

Dealing with Insurance

 

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