Dominion - batching?

[Anonymous]

Does anyone know if Dominion has started batching patients and only does transfers one week out of the month?

[Anonymous]

Yes, every three weeks. This has been since 2023 and is very annoying

[Anonymous]

thanks for the response.

so you're potentially on an additional three weeks of medication to wait for the transfer week? I'm guessing it must save them some money; I don't know why else they would do it.

[Anonymous]

I suspect its to only have to have an anesthesiologist in the office once every three weeks and for the doctors to be able to plan time off on monitoring weeks since they like to be there for retrievals and transfers. I believe Dominion was taken over by an equity firm in 2023.

[Anonymous]

To be clear all based around cutting costs. Also why they no longer offer natural cycle IVF because its not a money maker.

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:I suspect its to only have to have an anesthesiologist in the office once every three weeks and for the doctors to be able to plan time off on monitoring weeks since they like to be there for retrievals and transfers. I believe Dominion was taken over by an equity firm in 2023.

They sold to private equity in fall 2021 and dumped NC IVF abruptly about 2 months after the sale was finalized. Dr. Kay's departure was announced a month or two later. I was starting my first IVF cycle there as this all unfolded (it was also my last there because it was a horrible experience and Dr. Kay told me I had almost no chance of it working...immediately switched to CCRM and was pregnant 4 months after my Dominion retrieval cycle).

[Anonymous]

PP are you DOR?

[Anonymous]

Anonymous wrote:PP are you DOR?

Am I DOR? Well, Dr. Kay initially said that I wasn't based on my AFC, but then after she severely over-suppressed me followed by stimming for too long that I only had 3 poor-quality eggs retrieved, she said "Well, you're DOR so that's about the best you can expect." She literally changed my diagnosis on the fly in a CYA kind of move. That was February/March of 2022.

Fast forward to May 2022, Dr. Payson at CCRM comes in once I wake up from the anesthesia after my retrieval and surprises me with the news that he collected 10 eggs. During monitoring, they were only counting around 8 mature follicles. I immediately asked him if I was really DOR. He said that if I was, it was only slightly.

We got 1 genetic normal embryo from the CCRM cycle, and it was transferred via an unmedicated cycle. She just turned a year old. If Dominion is batching transfers now, then unmedicated cycles must not be possible there anymore. So they've even further reduced the options for patients, which is completely opposite what their practice model was when I first started there.

[Anonymous]

Agree with PP 100%. Its really something.