Do you look at IVF Success Rates?

[Anonymous]

Do you look at IVF success rates when choosing a provider? So i have a frozen embryo- what sort of success rate would I look for? How do I rate them? Some providers don't seem to post them. Is the Fertility Success Rates website reliable? Or is it something people pay to be on?

[Anonymous]

Honestly, I think with any of the big name clinics (Dominion, Shady Grove, CCRM) in the end you'd get whatever results you get regardless of posted success rates. My understanding is that, as is true for pretty much any kind of statistics, providers work to manipulate the public rates to be as much in their favor as possible.

With IVF you get plenty of clinics that simply refuse to accept patients who they think will lower their stats. A good friend of mine and his wife were rejected by a big clinic because they wanted to try with her eggs and the clinic thought she was too old and would only accept her as a patient if she agreed to do donor eggs. Ironically she later got pregnant on her own and had a successful birth at 45 with a healthy baby (which was amazing, but incredibly lucky) but the point is, I just doubt those rates are really worth much. Maybe if you have a known issue and there's a clinic that has particularly good rates working with that kind of patient, but I wouldn't spend much time worrying about it in a process that's already so fraught with unknowns.

Wishing you good luck!

[Anonymous]

The CDC lists a lot of detailed data on their website. If you put in your zip code, you can see data on your local clinics.

https://www.cdc.gov/art/artdata/index.html

You have to take the statistics with a grain of salt though, because as the previous poster noted, a lot of clinics screen their patients on things like bmi, age, or diagnosis. Good luck!

[Anonymous]

THANK. YOU!