FAQs
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Access to Care
As compared to other countries, public payers in the US for the most part do not cover infertility services and, while a few state mandates for some coverage are in place, most private plans are exempted, leaving the majority of patients to pay out of pocket for their infertility care.
Latest News and Research
- ASRM’s Fertility and Sterility Publishes Series of Articles on Racial and Ethnic Disparities in Reproductive Medicine
- New Black History Month Webinar Recorded Bundle
- ASRM Today - Policy Matters: Advocacy, PACS and ASRM
- ASRM Today Policy Matters: Midterm Elections 2022
- ASRM Today: Diversity, Equity and Inclusion with Dr. Gloria Richard Davis
- ASRM Task Force Announces Plans for Diversity, Equity and Inclusion in Reproductive Medicine
- ASRM Launches Ad Campaign in Kansas Special Election
- ASRM Responds to Lindsey Graham's Proposed Abortion Ban
- ASRM Launches Multi-State Ad Campaign for November Election
- ASRM CPL Releases New Report: Changes Ahead: Abortion Policy Proposals Affecting Reproductive Medicine
- ASRM Center for Policy and Leadership Releases White Paper: ASRM Military Families, Infertility, & National Security
- Infertility coverage for military won’t break Pentagon bank
- ASRM Center for Policy and Leadership Releases Part Two of States’ Abortion Laws: Potential Implications for Reproductive Medicine
- ASRM Finds Success During Midterm Election for Reproductive Rights
- ASRM Applauds OPM’s Updated Health Benefits for Federal Employees with Expanded ART Coverage
- ASRM Launches New Patient Advocacy Grant Program
- Concerned About Roe v Wade: Take Action…There is Something You Can Do Now! Right Now!
- The Dobbs Decision: A Statement from ASRM
- NEW from the ASRM Center for Policy and Leadership: State Abortion Trigger Laws: Potential Implications for Reproductive Medicine
- ASRM Launches Reproductive Care Protection Fund—A special project of the American Society for Reproductive Medicine
- The countdown to ASRM’s GIVING DAY 2022 has begun!
- IMAGINE A WORLD…
- April 24 - 30 is National Infertility Awareness Week!
- ASRM Military Families, Infertility, & National Security: Why expanding service members’ access to infertility treatment is easy, affordable, and the right thing to do.
- Let Your Voice Be Heard at the 2022 Advocacy Day
- ASRM Releases Infographics on How You Can Help Protect IVF
- ASRM Patient Advocacy Grant Program Announcement
- ASRM Today: Policy Matters - The Demise of Roe versus Wade: Potential Impact on Fertility Care
- ASRM Today Recommendations and Recaps for July 2022
- Fertility and Sterility On Air - Unplugged: September 2022
- ASRM Today Policy Matters: Advocacy Update December 2022
- ASRM Issues Statement Regarding Roe v. Wade and Its Possible Implications on Access to Reproductive Care
- Dobbs Decision Townhall for ASRM Members
- The Supreme Court Overturns Right to Abortion, Raising Questions and Uncertainties for ART Patients and Providers
- ASRM Today: ASRM Updates for December 2022
- ASRM Today: Legal considerations with Susan Crockin
- ASRM Today - ASRM Policy Matters: Trigger Laws and Reproductive Medicine
- Fertility and Sterility On Air - Live from ASRM 2022: Part 2 - The Mission
- ASRM Today: Factors affecting IVF success among underrepresented minorities with Dr. Jerrine Morris (Re-Broadcast)
- ASRM Launches New Center for Leadership and Policy, Releases First Report
- ASRM Applauds Kansas Election Results
- ASRM Patient Management and Clinical Recommendations During the Coronavirus (COVID-19) Pandemic: Update #5
- Reproductive Medical Societies Release Joint Statement on COVID-19
- ASRM Applauds VA Committee Passage of the Veterans Infertility Treatment Act; Calls on Speaker Pelosi to quickly move it to the House floor for a vote
- Office of Personnel Management Expands Fertility Coverage
- ASRM Applauds Introduction of the Right to Build Families Act
- ASRM Today - Policy Matters: The Dobbs Decision
- Fertility and Sterility On Air - Live from ASRM 2022: Part 1 - The Science
Patient Resources
- You Have The Right To Build A Family
- Do Insurance Plans Cover Infertility Treatment?
- Fertility rights and responsibilities 生育的权利和责任
- Cuidado reproductivo fronterizo (Cross-border reproductive care)
- Definiendo la infertilidad (Defining infertility)
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