Our clinic coordinator and patient accounts specialists will help you deal with your insurance carrier regarding coverage for your infertility treatment. We’ll get pre-authorization from your insurer for the initial consultation with your fertility specialist. We’ll also seek approval from your insurance carrier before you undergo fertility treatment. You will be responsible for getting a referral from your primary care doctor if it’s required by your insurer.

We’ll bill the initial fee for consultation and reproductive services directly to your insurance company from Newton-Wellesley Hospital. If you need assisted reproductive treatments from our colleagues at either Massachusetts General Hospital or Brigham and Women’s Hospital through the Mass General Brigham Center for Reproductive Medicine, the hospital where you receive treatment will bill your insurance company for those treatments.

If your insurance doesn’t cover fertility treatment, we accept all major credit cards and personal checks.

The Mass General Brigham Reproductive Medicine Center offers a complete range of infertility services, including:

• Assisted hatching, or the creation of a small opening of a fertilized egg in the laboratory to help with embryo implantation
• Donor egg program for women unable to produce their own eggs
• Donor semen program for men unable to produce their own sperm
• Egg cryopreservation, which involves freezing eggs to thaw for later use
• Embryo cryopreservation, which involves freezing fertilized embryos from one cycle to thaw for use in a future cycle
• Genetic diagnosis and screening procedures
• In vitro fertilization, or IVF, the combination of egg and sperm outside the body before transferring the resulting embryo or embryos into the uterus
• Intrauterine insemination, or IUI, the placement of sperm inside the uterus to assist in fertilization
• Male infertility (andrology) care and referrals
• Micromanipulation for assisted fertilization, also known as intracytoplasmic sperm injection or ICSI, the injection of a sperm cell into an egg
• Minimally invasive surgical procedures
• Ovulation induction, a hormonal treatment to stimulate egg development and release, as well as monitoring of the induction process
• Semen cryopreservation, which involves freezing sperm and thawing it for later use
• Semen analyses to determine possible causes of male infertility

Our colleagues at Brigham and Women’s Hospital or Massachusetts General Hospital provide procedures to assist couples with conception, including IVF, ICSI, egg retrieval, and embryo transfer. Our reproductive medicine team at Newton-Wellesley Hospital will care for you during the remainder of the infertility treatment process.

Assisted Hatching – Using very fine tools under a microscope, a small opening is created in the shell of the fertilized egg in the laboratory to assist in embryo implantation.

Donor Egg Program – For women unable to produce their own eggs, eggs may be donated by another woman after ovarian hyperstimulation and used during an IVF cycle.

Donor Semen Program – Sperm may be obtained from a donor bank and inseminated at the time of ovulation.

Embryo Cryopreservation –  Embryos from one cycle may be frozen, stored and successfully thawed for use in another cycle.

Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) – Using very fine tools under a microscope in the laboratory, a single sperm is injected into a single egg to aid in fertilization.

In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) – After ovarian hyperstimulation, eggs are removed from the ovaries with a needle through the vagina and mixed with sperm in the laboratory where fertilization occurs.  Several days later, the embryos are transferred through the cervix into the uterus.

Semen Cryopreservation – Sperm may be successfully frozen and thawed for use at a future date.