Anonymous wrote:I considered doing shared risk at Shady Grove, but then got diagnosed with something that disqualified me. Ultimately, though, that turned out to be a good thing, because I went to CFA, did one cycle of IVF there, and ended up with twins. It was much cheaper than the price I would have paid for shared risk at Shady Grove. It sounds appealing to possibly get some money back, but the flipside of that is that they only allow you to do shared risk if IVF is likely to work for you-- and if it works on the first try, you've paid way too much for one cycle. It's like a casino-- the house always wins, because the odds are stacked in their favor, not yours.

Anonymous wrote:I am doing shared risk for secondary infertility. Our first round was a total bust with zero viable embryos. While that news was of course disappointing, because we were on shared risk my mind was already thinking in terms of multiple cycles, if that makes sense. If we had just paid for one and had the same result, I imagine it may have been more disappointing.

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Anonymous wrote:I considered doing shared risk at Shady Grove, but then got diagnosed with something that disqualified me. Ultimately, though, that turned out to be a good thing, because I went to CFA, did one cycle of IVF there, and ended up with twins. It was much cheaper than the price I would have paid for shared risk at Shady Grove. It sounds appealing to possibly get some money back, but the flipside of that is that they only allow you to do shared risk if IVF is likely to work for you-- and if it works on the first try, you've paid way too much for one cycle. It's like a casino-- the house always wins, because the odds are stacked in their favor, not yours.

This is a good analogy.

Anonymous wrote:We did it and got all our money back. Ours was a unique case, secondary infertility and I think I was 33 when we began.

First cycle took but diagnosed at 16 weeks with a chromosomal abnormality. Decided to terminate at 17 weeks and also determined we would still be eligible to continue on with Shared Risk. Hardest time in my life but that is neither here nor there...
Did 2 more cycles where no embryos made it to transfer or freeze.
Disagreed with the plan to stay the course with the current protocol so we decided to switch clinics and got all our money back.

FWIW ended up with two more babies (and a few more losses) at new clinic.

Anonymous wrote:I considered doing shared risk at Shady Grove, but then got diagnosed with something that disqualified me. Ultimately, though, that turned out to be a good thing, because I went to CFA, did one cycle of IVF there, and ended up with twins. It was much cheaper than the price I would have paid for shared risk at Shady Grove. It sounds appealing to possibly get some money back, but the flipside of that is that they only allow you to do shared risk if IVF is likely to work for you-- and if it works on the first try, you've paid way too much for one cycle. It's like a casino-- the house always wins, because the odds are stacked in their favor, not yours.