Many IVF patients select an IVF clinic based on how much they charge, because IVF treatment can be expensive , and they want to save money . Unfortunately , this is a classical penny-wise pound-foolish approach.
While they may spend less upfront ( because the clinic often advertises low charges in order to attract patients), they often end up spending a lot more in the long run , because their IVF cycles fail repeatedly as a result of the poor care these clinics provide. The clinics often cut corners in order to reduce their costs – which cuts into their success rates as well. Not only do they waste a lot more money, they also lose a lot of valuable time and energy – and while they can earn the money back , they cannot recover the lost time .
When they finally realize there were taken for a ride, and would have been better off going to a good clinic with a high success rate , even if it is more expensive, their chances of getting pregnant have gone down considerably , because they have become older , and their ovarian reserve has declined .
Sadly, this is an error IVF patients realise only in retrospect – because they learn more about the technical minutiae about IVF only after the cycle fails.
This is why you shouldn’t get misled by the charges these IVF clinics advertise ( and these are often misleading because they keep on adding hidden costs to the charges, and you are forced to pay these, because you have already started your treatment cycle with them, and are trapped).
What you really need to calculate is not the total cost per cycle, but how much having a baby is going to cost you . That’s much more complicated, because this depends on the quality of care the clinic provides.
This is why you need to find a clinic which does only blastocyst transfers ; provides embryo photos routinely to all their patients; and has a full-time embryologist. You can see what embryos should look like at www.drmalpani.com/knowledge-center/ivf/embryos
Read more at https://blog.drmalpani.com/2021/03/how-to-check-on-your-ivf-doctor-so-you.html
This way, no matter what the final outcome is, you will be able to ensure that you are getting high quality medical care , and the clinic is not trying to cut corners just in order to make more money !
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