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What Happens to My Eggs After Egg Freezing?
Egg freezing offers a chance to focus on other stuff now while planning for your future family. But how does it work, and what happens to your precious eggs once they are safely frozen?
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Can You Use HSA/FSA For Egg Freezing?
In this article, we delve into the complex and nuanced world of Health Savings Accounts (HSAs) and Flexible Spending Accounts (FSAs), particularly as they relate to egg freezing.
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Working with an American Egg Donor as an International Intended Parent
The United States has become a popular destination for international intended parents seeking egg donation services, thanks to its advanced reproductive technologies and comprehensive donor screening processes.In this article, we'll explore the advantages of working with American egg donors and guide you through the process as an international intended parent. We'll cover everything from matching with a donor to understanding additional considerations unique to your situation.
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Does It Matter If Your Egg Donor Is a Different Ethnicity or Race? A Guide for Intended Parents
If you are pursuing parenthood via donor egg IVF, you may find yourself drawn to a donor who shares many of your qualities but differs in one significant aspect: ethnicity or race. This scenario, known as transracial egg donation, is actually quite common. While expanding your egg donor search beyond your own race opens up more possibilities for family building, it also comes with unique considerations and responsibilities. This article aims to provide a comprehensive guide to help you navigate this scenario.
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Understanding Genetics and Egg Donation: A Guide for Gay Dads-to-Be
For gay men embarking on the journey to fatherhood, egg donation and surrogacy offer a promising path to creating the family they've always dreamed of. This route to parenthood, while filled with excitement and hope, also comes with a unique set of considerations and decisions. Among these, the role of genetics in egg donation is a topic we’re often asked about. Whether you're just starting to explore your options or you're further along in the process, this guide will offer valuable insights to help you make informed decisions as you take this exciting step towards fatherhood.
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What Benefits Platforms Cover Donor Eggs?
Enter the landscape of employee benefits platforms - innovative companies that have stepped forward to revolutionize coverage for fertility treatments. But which ones cover donor eggs?
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Does Health Insurance Cover Donor Eggs?
The journey to parenthood can be complex, particularly when it involves in-vitro fertilization (IVF) using donor eggs. One question that often arises as part of this process is, "Does health insurance cover donor eggs?" The answer to this question is nuanced, and will depend largely on your specific health insurance policy, your place of residence, and several other factors. This article will explore the ins and outs of insurance coverage for procedures involving donor eggs, providing a roadmap for prospective parents navigating this intricate terrain.
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Cofertility Partners with Carrot Fertility to Expand Fertility Benefits Coverage for Members
The last few decades have brought incredible advancements in reproductive technologies – egg freezing has taken off since the experimental label was removed in 2012 and more people than ever are building their families through egg donor IVF. But despite ground-breaking innovations, high costs associated with fertility services still prevent many people from moving forward with treatment.
The last few decades have brought incredible advancements in reproductive technologies – egg freezing has taken off since the experimental label was removed in 2012 and more people than ever are building their families through egg donor IVF. But despite ground-breaking innovations, high costs associated with fertility services still prevent many people from moving forward with treatment.
At Cofertility, our mission is to make egg freezing and third party reproduction more accessible and empowering. Through our Split program, women can freeze their eggs for free when they donate half of the eggs retrieved to Intended Parents. By removing cash compensation, which has historically varied based on a donor’s personal, professional, and even medical background, our model makes family building through egg donation more human-centered and accessible.
Still, there are myriad costs associated with the egg donation process – which is why we’re so proud to announce our partnership with Carrot Fertility, a fertility benefits provider that’s paving the way forward in making fertility care more accessible.
Coverage for fertility treatment
Insurance coverage for egg freezing and IVF – and in particular, donor egg IVF – is nuanced, dependent on several policy- and geography-specific factors, among others. What’s more, some services like elective egg freezing are left out of those policies in their entirety. In recent years, employers have filled some of these coverage gaps by contracting with companies that offer fertility benefits.
Carrot Fertility is one such company that takes a flexible approach to fertility benefits. Carrot partners with employers and health plans to offer cash reimbursement for fertility services. They work closely with each employer or health plan customer to build a benefit offering for those companies’ employees or enrollees that includes a specific scope of services and puts a limit on total reimbursement allowed.
Carrot “members” are those individuals whose employers or health plans have contracted with Carrot. Members can use their allotted Carrot benefit to pay for fertility services. In some cases, members will pay out of pocket and get reimbursed for care. In other cases, they are provided with a Carrot Card (physical or digital) that eliminates the need for individuals to even pay upfront for treatment.
What we love about their model:
- Customizable: Carrot allows employers to customize coverage based on their budget and their employees' needs, a model that underscores how there is no one-size-fits all when it comes to fertility.
- Broad coverage: Carrot’s comprehensive platform typically covers a range of fertility services, including egg freezing and donor egg treatments. The scope of service and overall budget is set by the employer.
- Flexible payment: They offer a Carrot Card so that members can easily pay for care without having to front the cash themselves.
- Personalized member experience: Carrot has a robust care navigation team that provides members with personalized Carrot plans and offers individualized support throughout their family building journeys.
Benefits for Cofertility and Carrot members
Carrot works with hundreds of companies, providing their employees with evidence-based support and reimbursement for services rendered across their fertility journeys.
As a Carrot Partner, fees paid to Cofertility as part of a fertility journey are also eligible for cash reimbursement through Carrot.
What’s more, Cofertility Intended Parents with Carrot benefits are also eligible to receive a discount off the Cofertility Coordination Fee. You can reach out to your Cofertility Member Advocate to learn more about how you can take advantage of this discount. We can also share a list of questions to ask your care advocate to help you understand the full picture of your benefits.
And if you’re a Cofertility Keep member with Carrot benefits, our team is happy to help you select a clinic and make the most of your benefits.
Whether Carrot or another benefit provider, we recommend speaking with your employer’s benefit team or your benefit provider’s patient care advocate to gain a clearer understanding of the coverage available to you. To learn more about additional benefits platforms that offer fertility coverage, check out this article.
Announcing our Partnership with Gays with Kids
At Cofertility, we believe in the equal right to parent and proudly serve individuals and couples of all backgrounds, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, or relationship status.
At Cofertility, we believe in the equal right to parent and proudly serve individuals and couples of all backgrounds, regardless of gender identity, sexual orientation, or relationship status.
We are particularly committed to supporting LGBTQ+ people’s path to parenthood and are excited to announce our recent partnership as a Gays with Kids (GWK) official Family Building Partner.
Why Gays with Kids
Founded in 2014, GWK is the world’s largest and only resource, website, and social network dedicated exclusively to serving the needs of gay, bi, and trans dads and dads-to-be. GWK’s mission is to inspire, inform and guide gay, bi, and trans men throughout their journey of family building. They support hopeful and current dads to live their best authentic lives while navigating fatherhood.
Through the Gays with Kids Academy, webinars, and other in-person events, GWK educates gay and queer men about their options for becoming dads, and then guides them along each step of their journey.
We understand that while the path to parenthood isn’t necessarily the same for everyone, the desire to have a family can be. Egg donation is an essential part of LGBTQ+ family planning and our Family by Co platform makes egg donation more accessible, human and community driven.
With this partnership, Cofertility joins an exclusive network of vetted family-building partners representing the best-of-the-best in surrogacy and IVF service providers.
What’s next?
Given our own commitment to education, we’re excited to be featured in the Gays with Kids Academy “Surrogacy and IVF Course.” We’re also co-hosting a webinar focused on the benefits of disclosure, a topic that we know is top of mind for many hopeful dads. We’re happy to send the recording and if you’re a hopeful dad interested in learning more about GWK, we’re happy to make the connection.
Cofertility is a human-first fertility ecosystem rewriting the egg freezing and egg donation experience. Our Family by Co platform serves as a more transparent, ethical egg donor matching platform. We are obsessed with improving the family-building journey — today or in the future — and are in an endless pursuit to make these experiences more positive.
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