Exploring fertility coverage in 2013
Your goal is to become pregnant in the New Year. At Texas Fertility Center, we resolve to help you navigate your insurance company’s call center maze and complex insurance forms. Understanding your insurance plan takes patience, even perseverance. However, as someone experiencing the pain and frustration of infertility, you have a lot of practice with these attributes.
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Taking steps to cure breast cancer
At Texas Fertility Center, we passionately advocate for women’s health issues. We are changing laws to make infertility treatment affordable. Also, we’re taking steps to cure breast cancer During Breast Cancer Awareness Month, TFC will share blog topics, Facebook posts and Twitter tweets that encourage our online friends to get involved.
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Out of pocket? What TFC is doing to help the infertility community
Caring for patients involves more than infertility diagnosis, treatment and resolution. Texas Fertility Center physicians and staff spend time, here in Austin and Washington D.C., advocating for the infertility community. These efforts include building awareness among our legislative delegation about infertility, supporting legislation that positively affects our patients,
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Support the Family Act of 2011
As you know, infertility treatment is often not covered by insurance. This unfortunate fact prevents many couples who could easily benefit from fertility diagnosis and treatment from even seeking care. In fact, studies have shown that fewer than 50% of couples with infertility ever see any medical professional. Less than 20% eventually see a fertility specialist.
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What to do during Infertility Awareness Week 2012
It’s Infertility Awareness Week 2012, and this story may sound familiar. Your best friend calls you to tell you that she’s pregnant with her third baby. She’s never had any trouble getting pregnant before and this is no exception. On the other end of the line, you’re happy for her but crushed at the same time.
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Dr. Kaylen Silverberg, co-founder of Texas Fertility Center, recently traveled to Washington to lobby the Central Texas congressional delegation in efforts to gain support for a fertility tax credit bill. This bill would provide a $13,360 tax credit to those undergoing fertility treatments, which is very similar to the $14,000 adoption tax credit currently available to those expanding their families by way of adoption.
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When to stop trying to conceive
Many patients struggling to become pregnant wonder when it is time to quit. Just when is “enough enough”? It is important to realize that if Texas Fertility Center can utilize all of the options, 85-88% of patients will be able to have a baby. But that does not mean that there aren’t times during the treatment process when “enough is enough”.
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