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Cost of IVF : Patient Factors And Treatment
Strategy.
Patient-related Factors That Determine The Cost Of IVF Treatment
• Age of the partners, especially the woman.
• Presence of co-morbidities, if any, like Diabetes, Anaemia,
Hypertension, Thyroid issues, or Obesity in either/both the partners.
• The health of the reproductive tract - infections leading to blocked
tubes.
• Tuberculosis, Fibroids, PCOD in women and obstructions of the
semen pathway in men.
• Underlying conditions like Varicocele, undescended testes in men.
• The health of the ovaries.
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Treatment-related Factors That Affect The
Test Tube Cost
• Special tests that may be required
• Type of treatment strategy used
• Number of IVF cycles needed
• Type of medications
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HOW DOES AGE AFFECT IVF TREATMENT COSTS?
• Women’s fertility decreases with age and rapidly so after the age of 35.
• A woman’s ability to produce good quality eggs reduces as her age
approaches 40, which is considered the age around which most women get
their menopause. This simply means that the woman has exhausted her
complement of eggs, is now unable to produce any more eggs and therefore
cannot produce a child. This is accompanied by hormonal changes as periods
cease and we say that menopause has started.
• Age is not a very major issue in men
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• However, this doesn’t mean that the woman cannot get pregnant. She can
take the services of a donor, generate good quality embryos by artificially
fertilizing eggs donated by a healthy woman with her husband’s sperm and
achieve pregnancy by getting these embryos implanted into her uterus.
This process is called IVF using Donor eggs and is very common. Here the
cost of the IVF process increases by about 40k to 50k being the Donor fees.
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How Do Co-morbidities Affect The Cost Of Test
Tube Baby Treatment?
• Co-morbidities like Diabetes, Anaemia, Hypertension, Thyroid issues, and
Obesity may be present in either/both partners.
• These ailments may directly or indirectly affect the ability to conceive or
bear a child safely.
• Failure to conceive, premature births, and miscarriages are known
complications when such comorbidities are present.
• Therefore these ailments have to be first cured or brought under control
before the IVF cycle can commence.
• Subsequently greater care, additional medicines, and more frequent
monitoring may be required, which may increase the cost of the IVF cycle.
More cycles may be required for a successful & healthy outcome.
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What Is The Effect Of The Health Of The
Reproductive Tract On IVF Cost?
• Infections, if any, need to be cleared up first. Even if the infections have
been taken care of, they may leave behind residual complications like
adhesions and toxic fluids in the fallopian tubes which have to be
surgically neutralized.
• Since Intra-uterine fibroids may affect conception and result in
miscarriages, they need to be surgically removed.
• PCOD/PCOS is seen in a vast majority of women facing fertility issues.
Depending upon the severity, it may require management ranging from
medicines to surgery for facilitating conception and a pregnancy
culminating in a healthy birth.
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WHAT IS THE EFFECT OF THE HEALTH OF THE
REPRODUCTIVE TRACT ON IVF COST?
In many of these cases, the eggs are numerous but do not mature and
cannot generate embryos of sufficient quality. In such cases, pooling
cycles may be an answer, but these will increase the cost. A more
economical alternative would be IVF with Self-sperm and Donor eggs.
In men, underlying conditions may necessitate additional procedures to
extract the sperm directly from the testes or the reproductive tract. These
procedures will incur additional costs varying from 10k to 25k.
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COST can go up due to underlying causes
• Additional treatments, expensive medicines, lab tests, more frequent
monitoring, etc in such cases increase the cost of IVF as compared to
non-complicated cases.
• In women, the ovaries naturally stop producing good quality and number
of eggs as they age. In some cases, the ageing is much faster and results
in premature ovarian failure. In such cases, depending upon the severity,
either expensive medication may be required or Donor eggs may need to
be used, thereby increasing the cost of the IVF treatment.
• There are several patient-related factors that require additional tests or
processes. This increases the treatment cost of the cycle.
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• However, patients must learn to look at IVF costs as an investment in a
quality process in order to reduce time and cost in achieving a pregnancy
that will culminate in a healthy live birth after a complete gestation.
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Advantage Pearl women’s Hospital & Yash IVF
• At Pearl Women’s Hospital & Yash IVF we focus on reducing the time and
total cost of achieving desired results.
• We do not try to confuse patients by talking about cycle costs. Instead, we
explain how our process enables the patients to fulfil their dreams in the
least time and affordabely. Our strategy is to perform a high-quality first
cycle, and freeze the additional embryos so that there remains the scope
to perform a second or third cycle at a nominal additional cost.
• On the other hand, those who prefer a fresh IVF cycle simply to save the
cycle cost will end up having to repeat the entire cycle and bear the entire
cycle cost again, in case the first cycle fails to yield results.
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Thank You
Pearl Women’s Hospital and Yash IVF
Address
Renaissance, J.M. Road, Pune,
Maharashtra, India- 411004.
www.pearlwomenshospital.com
