NCIVF no longer an option at Dominion Fertility

[Anonymous]

Just announced today on their FB support group?

[Anonymous]

Who would want to do it anyway? Aren't the stats ridiculously low?

[Anonymous]

Was there more information given, specifically why? Having one of the highest number of NCIVF cycles in the country is one of Dominion's major selling points.

[Anonymous]

Dr. DiMattina told me they're focusing on STIM and PGS. Dr. DiMattina told me the numbers aren't there. Very disappointing as we had just attempted our first cycle and ovulated before retrieval. They will do monitoring for New Hope in NYC for patients who choose to go that route - not sure if they will take on new NCIVF patients.

[Anonymous]

I can’t believe my babies from Dr DiMattina are 24 yo. !!

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Anonymous wrote:Who would want to do it anyway? Aren't the stats ridiculously low?

Well, my first NCIVF baby was conceived on the 3rd try, and my second and third NCIVF babies were each conceived on my first try. I’m happy with those stats.

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Anonymous wrote:Who would want to do it anyway? Aren't the stats ridiculously low?

Some people are open to IVF but ethically opposed to destroying or indefinitely freezing embryos and so only want to do one at a time. Also, it's less expensive and not all healthcare plans cover IVF.

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. DiMattina told me they're focusing on STIM and PGS. Dr. DiMattina told me the numbers aren't there. Very disappointing as we had just attempted our first cycle and ovulated before retrieval. They will do monitoring for New Hope in NYC for patients who choose to go that route - not sure if they will take on new NCIVF patients.

Dominion has a NYC office?

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. DiMattina told me they're focusing on STIM and PGS. Dr. DiMattina told me the numbers aren't there. Very disappointing as we had just attempted our first cycle and ovulated before retrieval. They will do monitoring for New Hope in NYC for patients who choose to go that route - not sure if they will take on new NCIVF patients.

Dominion has a NYC office?

No - Dr. DiMattina is now telling Dominion patients who want to continue NC-IVF that they should go to a clinic (called New Hope) in NYC to do it. These patients can do monitoring locally at Dominion, who will send the results to New Hope, then the patients would travel to NYC at the critical point in their cycle.
When looked at from a business perspective, this is such a bizarre move for Dominion - Dr. DiMattina is literally sending away profits.

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. DiMattina told me they're focusing on STIM and PGS. Dr. DiMattina told me the numbers aren't there. Very disappointing as we had just attempted our first cycle and ovulated before retrieval. They will do monitoring for New Hope in NYC for patients who choose to go that route - not sure if they will take on new NCIVF patients.

Dominion has a NYC office?

No - Dr. DiMattina is now telling Dominion patients who want to continue NC-IVF that they should go to a clinic (called New Hope) in NYC to do it. These patients can do monitoring locally at Dominion, who will send the results to New Hope, then the patients would travel to NYC at the critical point in their cycle.
When looked at from a business perspective, this is such a bizarre move for Dominion - Dr. DiMattina is literally sending away profits.

Ah, gotcha. I wonder how the results get reported. Perhaps Dominion doesn’t want their success rate going down.

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. DiMattina told me they're focusing on STIM and PGS. Dr. DiMattina told me the numbers aren't there. Very disappointing as we had just attempted our first cycle and ovulated before retrieval. They will do monitoring for New Hope in NYC for patients who choose to go that route - not sure if they will take on new NCIVF patients.

Dominion has a NYC office?

No - Dr. DiMattina is now telling Dominion patients who want to continue NC-IVF that they should go to a clinic (called New Hope) in NYC to do it. These patients can do monitoring locally at Dominion, who will send the results to New Hope, then the patients would travel to NYC at the critical point in their cycle.
When looked at from a business perspective, this is such a bizarre move for Dominion - Dr. DiMattina is literally sending away profits.

Ah, gotcha. I wonder how the results get reported. Perhaps Dominion doesn’t want their success rate going down.

I am pretty sure that is the issue.

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. DiMattina told me they're focusing on STIM and PGS. Dr. DiMattina told me the numbers aren't there. Very disappointing as we had just attempted our first cycle and ovulated before retrieval. They will do monitoring for New Hope in NYC for patients who choose to go that route - not sure if they will take on new NCIVF patients.

Dominion has a NYC office?

No - Dr. DiMattina is now telling Dominion patients who want to continue NC-IVF that they should go to a clinic (called New Hope) in NYC to do it. These patients can do monitoring locally at Dominion, who will send the results to New Hope, then the patients would travel to NYC at the critical point in their cycle.
When looked at from a business perspective, this is such a bizarre move for Dominion - Dr. DiMattina is literally sending away profits.

DP. Unless the profits they might make from this aren’t worth the longer-term harm to reputation if they become known for selling patients on a procedure with low success rates to take advantage of people who can’t afford other options.

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. DiMattina told me they're focusing on STIM and PGS. Dr. DiMattina told me the numbers aren't there. Very disappointing as we had just attempted our first cycle and ovulated before retrieval. They will do monitoring for New Hope in NYC for patients who choose to go that route - not sure if they will take on new NCIVF patients.

Dominion has a NYC office?

No - Dr. DiMattina is now telling Dominion patients who want to continue NC-IVF that they should go to a clinic (called New Hope) in NYC to do it. These patients can do monitoring locally at Dominion, who will send the results to New Hope, then the patients would travel to NYC at the critical point in their cycle.
When looked at from a business perspective, this is such a bizarre move for Dominion - Dr. DiMattina is literally sending away profits.

DP. Unless the profits they might make from this aren’t worth the longer-term harm to reputation if they become known for selling patients on a procedure with low success rates to take advantage of people who can’t afford other options.

I was definitely sold on NCIVF and frankly pushed towards it by my dr at Dominion. I did two rounds, neither were successful. I wish I hadn't wasted the time or money on it. Ended up doing 3 rounds of IVF after that.

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. DiMattina told me they're focusing on STIM and PGS. Dr. DiMattina told me the numbers aren't there. Very disappointing as we had just attempted our first cycle and ovulated before retrieval. They will do monitoring for New Hope in NYC for patients who choose to go that route - not sure if they will take on new NCIVF patients.

Dominion has a NYC office?

No - Dr. DiMattina is now telling Dominion patients who want to continue NC-IVF that they should go to a clinic (called New Hope) in NYC to do it. These patients can do monitoring locally at Dominion, who will send the results to New Hope, then the patients would travel to NYC at the critical point in their cycle.
When looked at from a business perspective, this is such a bizarre move for Dominion - Dr. DiMattina is literally sending away profits.

DP. Unless the profits they might make from this aren’t worth the longer-term harm to reputation if they become known for selling patients on a procedure with low success rates to take advantage of people who can’t afford other options.

I was definitely sold on NCIVF and frankly pushed towards it by my dr at Dominion. I did two rounds, neither were successful. I wish I hadn't wasted the time or money on it. Ended up doing 3 rounds of IVF after that.

Curious if your three rounds of STIM IVF were successful?

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Anonymous wrote:Dr. DiMattina told me they're focusing on STIM and PGS. Dr. DiMattina told me the numbers aren't there. Very disappointing as we had just attempted our first cycle and ovulated before retrieval. They will do monitoring for New Hope in NYC for patients who choose to go that route - not sure if they will take on new NCIVF patients.

Dominion has a NYC office?

No - Dr. DiMattina is now telling Dominion patients who want to continue NC-IVF that they should go to a clinic (called New Hope) in NYC to do it. These patients can do monitoring locally at Dominion, who will send the results to New Hope, then the patients would travel to NYC at the critical point in their cycle.
When looked at from a business perspective, this is such a bizarre move for Dominion - Dr. DiMattina is literally sending away profits.

DP. Unless the profits they might make from this aren’t worth the longer-term harm to reputation if they become known for selling patients on a procedure with low success rates to take advantage of people who can’t afford other options.

I don't think this is the issue. Its the issue of a lower success rate overall in the infertility realm. Anyone who understands NC IVF understands their odds compared to stim because of less eggs. My cycle failed because I ovulated before retrieval. We're not all doing it because its more affordable, we're doing it to avoid creating excess embryos and not taking a bunch of drugs. And its very disappointing that this is not an option in DMV anymore.

Dominion staff in general is not great imo. I am still waiting on my beta test results for an IUI two weeks ago and its almost 4pm. They took over 15 minutes to show up to retrieve my husband's semen after a twenty minute drive then told us with a straight face for some unknown reason only 7 million vs. the typical 9 million sperm survived the wash. They also waited an hour and a half after knowing my egg had already ovulated to do the IUI. So yeah, thinking the test is not positive and that without Dr. DiMattina to oversee this staff and procedures it makes me feel like the rest of the staff doesn't seem to understand their roles.

After paging them at 3pm I received a call from the nurse at 3:30pm saying they sent the negative message at 11am but somehow it didn't go through. I think NC IVF is way too overwhelming for this staff.