IVF deal

I stumbled upon this IVF deal on a message board which I frequent. The poster had said casually that she found a clinic that charged $6,000 for two fresh IVFs cycles and unlimited FETs. And I could not believe that people didn't jump all over her for information, so even though I don't need it right now, I made it my mission to find out more details and post about it here. I have no affiliation with this clinic whatsoever, I did not use them myself, I simply wanted to post what is the best IVF deal I've ever seen and you folks can take it from there.

The clinic is CNY Fertility in with locations in Syracuse, Albany and Rochester, NY (Thanks to Meandbaby for alerting me to the additional locations!). There is a link under "Costs" that reads: 2010 IVF Specials. These are the details of the deals listed there as of when this blog post was written:

$6,000*
• Up to 2 IVF cycles.
• $3,000 deposit at retrieval.
• 12 months interest free financing.
• $250 monthly payment deducted from credit/debit card.
• If a pregnancy is achieved prior to 2nd cycle, contract is completed.

$9,000*
• Up to 4 IVF cycles.
• $4,500 deposit at retrieval.
• 12 months interest free financing.
• $375 monthly payment deducted from credit/debit card.
• If a pregnancy is achieved prior to 4th cycle, contract is completed.

$13,500*
• Up to 6 IVF cycles.
• $6,750 deposit at retrieval.
• 12 months interest free financing.
• $562.50 monthly payment deducted from credit/debit card.
• If a pregnancy is achieved prior to 6th cycle, contract is completed.

*This program includes Anesthesia, ICSI, Assisted Hatching, Retrieval, Embryo Transfer, storage of frozen embryos and FET cycles for one year Patient is responsible for all labs, ultrasounds and medications. We will bill insurance for monitoring and accept what insurance pays minus the co-pays, co-insurances and deductibles. If patient has frozen embryos, they must be used prior to proceeding with the next fresh IVF cycle.

Just focusing on the first deal of $6,000 for two fresh and unlimited FETs, please note the fine print above that it does not include monitoring or meds. If your insurance will not cover this, depending on the doses for your stims, that could add up to another $5,000 per cycle. At my clinic, 4 ultrasounds + b/w would run about $1,400 per cycle. So, this deal could, in reality, be more like $12,500 for the first IVF cycle, but you'd still have another fresh IVF and FETs in pocket, if needed. That it includes ICSI and AH by default is pretty cool too.

The deals for donor cycles also seem to be good but not as drastically good as own-egg IVFs. The details are at the bottom of the same page.

There is information under "About us" regarding accomodations and deals that the clinic has with local hotels for as little as $45/night. Though, if it were me, I might see if I could coordinate doing my monitoring at home and just flying up there for retrieval. But that would be a personal call.

Apparently you can do free phone consults with the doctors but it can take up to two months to schedule the consult, so you'd need to plan way ahead.

Anyway, as I mentioned earlier, I have no personal experience with this clinic, so I won't be able to answer any questions about them. I just wanted to share this for anyone paying out-of-pocket, maybe this would make IVF possible where it wasn't before.