I wish I had read the Yelp reviews before wasting my time with SGF. We requested our records after 3 failed IUI's and found out our RE never told us my DH's morphology was 1% which means IVF was the best option??

Just look at Yelp reviews for Shady Grove, it tells the tale.
https://www.yelp.com/biz/shady-grove-fertility-rockville

Private equity groups are looking for profits and do not care about turning SGF into Walmart.

Ugh I don’t know. Some of the other major chains of clinics are also owned by private equity firms. https://www.statnews.com/2017/12/04/infertility-industry-investment/

I fear that it is not good. Ugh this process is hard enough without trying to assess this stuff.

As a patient, I was surprised to see this press release in my inbox a few weeks ago. My understanding of the health care and private equity industries is minimal but I doubt that I'm alone in questioning the overall impact to service.

On the surface level, the incentives for a private equity group seem fundamentally not aligned with the goals of patients and doctors since the PEG will in inevitably sell in 5 years.

On the other hand, a week after the announcement I received a refund check in the low four figures for years of over-payments, so perhaps it not necessarily a bad thing.

What do you think?