If you are infertile, you know that IVF represents your best chance of having your own baby. IVF treatment is highly successful and can be extremely cost-effective, because it shortcuts time, so instead of waiting for multiple cycles in order to get pregnant, one cycle of IVF will maximize the chance of conceiving. Even better, IVF allows us to bypass lots of hurdles which occur naturally, and is therefore often the common therapeutic pathway for infertile couples to have a baby.
The Cost Factor The problem with IVF is that it's quite expensive . This is especially true in the US, where
IVF treatment costs an arm and a leg. Interestingly,
IVF treatment in India is considerably cheaper; this is because even though we use exactly the same equipment and have exactly the same success rate as US clinics, doctors in India charge much less than what US doctors do. It's why
IVF treatment at Malpani Infertility Clinic costs a fraction of what comparable IVF clinics charge in the US. Its also why a large number of patients from the USA come to India for medical treatment.
Succes Rates are Important Of course, cost is not the only factor we should be looking at- this has to be balanced with success rates as well. Part of the problem is that sometimes patients are so focussed on getting low cost
IVF treatment that they often end up going to an
IVF clinic which offers them cheap
ivf treatment. Sadly, this clinic will also often have the lowest success rate. As a result of this uninformed shopping for an
IVF clinic, they end up receiving poor quality medical care. The danger is that low cost may also mean low quality of care !
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Make Sense of IVF Success Rates
Things to Focus On The focus for an IVF patient should not just be on how much they are spending, but on how good the care is! If the quality is poor, while you may end up spending a little less, you are actually far worse off than you started. Not only does poor quality IVF care prevent you from reaching your goal of having a baby, it ends up causing you to waste your money. This false economy can prove to be very expensive !
The Perception Even worse, it prevents you from getting high quality IVF care at a better
IVF clinic. It knocks down your self-confidence, and you also lose faith in IVF doctors. After all, if your experience with one IVF doctor is bad, you're not likely to have confidence in any IVF doctors at all, and may end up believing that IVF is a big con.
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Protect Yourself From Bad IVF Doctors
The Right Balance The trick is not to opt for the cheapest
IVF clinic, but to do your homework and find one which is cost-effective. This doesn't mean that the most expensive
IVF clinic is the best either, and therefore it's important for patients to find clinics which offer the right balance. It's important for you to do your homework, so that you can find clinics that offer low cost IVF treatments, but have a high success rate.
Overall Costs Matter The important thing is not to get fooled just because the cost of a single cheap
IVF treatment cycle at a particular clinic is low. What you should really be looking at is the cost for a baby - how much will it actually cost you until you can take a baby back home? This is the most important figure, but it can be extremely hard to calculate, because it's not very easily available from most IVF clinics.
The Holistic View Also, when people are calculating cost, it's often just in terms of how much money they are spending. You need to take a more holistic perspective, and also factor in: