ArticleReproductive biomedicine & society online2018
Medical egg freezing: How cost and lack of insurance cover impact women and their families.
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23 citing papers in PubMed.
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- Assessing Attitudes and Understanding After Ovarian Tissue Cryopreservation: A Follow-Up Telephone Interview Survey.Journal of adolescent and young adult oncology · 2024Article
- Male Breast Cancer: a Review on Diagnosis, Treatment, and Survivorship.Current oncology reports · 2024Review
- Balancing choice and socioeconomic realities: analyzing behavioral and economic factors in social oocyte cryopreservation decisions.Frontiers in endocrinology · 2024Article
- Social egg freezing: Motivations, treatment experiences and the impact of Covid-19 - a single-center experience.Acta obstetricia et gynecologica Scandinavica · 2023Article
- Oocyte Cryopreservation for Medical and Planned Indications: A Practical Guide and Overview.Journal of clinical medicine · 2023Review
- Too much equity - is there such a thing? The public discourse surrounding elective egg freezing subsidy in Israel.International journal for equity in health · 2023Article
- Medical versus social egg freezing: the importance of future choice for women's decision-making.Monash bioethics review · 2022Article
- Employer-based insurance coverage increases utilization of planned oocyte cryopreservation.Journal of assisted reproduction and genetics · 2022Article
- Disrupting the biological clock: Fertility benefits, egg freezing and proactive fertility management.Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2022Article
- Financing future fertility: Women's views on funding egg freezing.Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2022Article
- Childbearing vs. clinical trial participation: is it one or the other?Journal of translational medicine · 2021Article
- Unveiling the controversy on egg freezing in The Netherlands: A Q-methodology study on women's viewpoints.Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2021Article
- Reprint: Where has the quest for conception taken us? Lessons from anthropology and sociology.Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2020Article
- Where has the quest for conception taken us? Lessons from anthropology and sociology.Reproductive biomedicine & society online · 2020Article
- Fertility counseling and preservation discussions for females with Turner syndrome in pediatric centers: practice patterns and predictors.Fertility and sterility · 2019Article
- Fertility-related experiences after breast cancer diagnosis in the Sister and Two Sister Studies.Cancer · 2019Article
- Utilization and Outcomes of Fertility Preservation Techniques in Women Undergoing Allogeneic Hematopoietic Cell Transplant.Biology of blood and marrow transplantation : journal of the American Society for Blood and Marrow Transplantation · 2019Article
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Abstract
Medical egg freezing (MEF) is being recommended increasingly for women at risk of losing their reproductive ability due to cancer chemotherapy or other fertility-threatening medical conditions. This first, binational, ethnographic study of women who had undergone MEF sought to explore women's experiences under two different funding systems: (i) the USA, where the cost of MEF is rarely covered by private or state health insurance; and (ii) Israel, where the cost of MEF is covered by national health insurance. Women were recruited from four American and two Israeli in-vitro fertilization clinics where MEF is offered. In-depth, semi-structured interviews were conducted with 45 women (33 Americans, 12 Israelis) who had completed at least one cycle of MEF. All of the Israeli women had cancer diagnoses, but were not faced with the additional burden of funding an MEF cycle. In marked contrast, the American women - 23 with cancer diagnoses and 10 with other fertility-threatening medical conditions - struggled, along with their families, to 'piece together' MEF funding, which added significant financial pressure to an already stressful situation. Given the high priority that both American and Israeli women in this study placed on survival and future motherhood, it is suggested that insurance funding for MEF should be mandated in the USA, as it is in Israel. This article concludes by describing new state legislative efforts in this regard.
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