Fertility Treatment in the U.S.

00:00:04.320 --> 00:00:07.400 Our center deals with a lot of international patients, 00:00:07.467 --> 00:00:09.700 mainly because we do a lot of egg donation surrogacy 00:00:09.767 --> 00:00:11.200 and we are in California, 00:00:11.500 --> 00:00:14.200 which is one of the most protective states for that. 00:00:14.400 --> 00:00:16.867 We see a lot of patients that are coming from Europe. 00:00:16.933 --> 00:00:19.800 We have patients from Germany, Italy, and so on. 00:00:19.867 --> 00:00:21.033 We have from Canada, 00:00:21.100 --> 00:00:26.094 we have from New Zealand, Australia, Israel, and so many other countries. 00:00:26.160 --> 00:00:28.733 Our team as a center, 00:00:28.800 --> 00:00:33.067 we're very used to treating international patients. 00:00:33.367 --> 00:00:35.960 There are a couple of things that are very, very important 00:00:36.280 --> 00:00:37.734 with international patients. 00:00:37.800 --> 00:00:39.560 Number one, communication. 00:00:40.280 --> 00:00:42.854 Communication is important with any fertility treatment, 00:00:42.920 --> 00:00:46.134 but even more so with international because they're not here, 00:00:46.200 --> 00:00:49.254 they can't come to the office, they don't know the health system, 00:00:49.320 --> 00:00:52.440 they can't see the surrogate, they can't see our team. 00:00:52.600 --> 00:00:54.367 We really try to make sure that 00:00:54.967 --> 00:00:58.633 there is at least one member in our team that can speak the language, 00:00:58.700 --> 00:01:01.840 whether it's Hebrew, Italian, Spanish, Romanian, 00:01:01.920 --> 00:01:03.100 Mandarin and so on. 00:01:03.167 --> 00:01:06.267 The second is how do we communicate 00:01:06.333 --> 00:01:08.933 and for example, a lot of Europe use WhatsApp 00:01:09.630 --> 00:01:11.658 and China is using WeChat 00:01:12.267 --> 00:01:16.133 and we provide all those ways of communication because they're very direct. 00:01:16.200 --> 00:01:18.933 A lot of the time if couples are coming to the US 00:01:19.333 --> 00:01:21.300 to do egg donation surrogacy, 00:01:21.733 --> 00:01:25.833 really we can do almost everything up until they have to come and get the baby 00:01:25.900 --> 00:01:27.000 or take the baby home. 00:01:27.320 --> 00:01:29.400 They don't really need to travel to the US 00:01:29.467 --> 00:01:31.494 because traveling to the US can be difficult. 00:01:31.560 --> 00:01:35.720 We have for many countries places where they can free sperm. 00:01:36.567 --> 00:01:39.488 We can facilitate all the testing to be done 00:01:39.688 --> 00:01:41.414 through saliva and blood work 00:01:41.480 --> 00:01:43.133 and shipping this sperm to the US 00:01:43.215 --> 00:01:45.014 so they really do not need to travel there. 00:01:45.133 --> 00:01:49.567 Now for patients that are coming here actually for IVF and are international, 00:01:49.700 --> 00:01:54.233 we always talk to them about the option of starting a treatment in... 00:01:54.300 --> 00:01:56.000 The treatment is usually 2 weeks. 00:01:56.400 --> 00:01:59.926 We have them if they want to start the treatment in the country 00:02:00.000 --> 00:02:03.294 to reduce the stay in the US for just like 7 to 8 days. 00:02:03.700 --> 00:02:07.367 A lot of international patients are worried, probably so, 00:02:07.433 --> 00:02:11.480 about the cost of treatment in the US. 00:02:12.400 --> 00:02:15.000 We try to help them in different ways. 00:02:15.320 --> 00:02:17.933 One, is having an in house egg donation program, 00:02:18.000 --> 00:02:20.267 which decreased the cost of an agency fee. 00:02:21.167 --> 00:02:25.382 We also have different packages that we called unlimited or guarantee 00:02:25.533 --> 00:02:28.887 where we as a clinic commit to transfer embryos until 00:02:28.967 --> 00:02:32.454 for example the surrogate is pregnant and deliver baby. 00:02:32.520 --> 00:02:34.333 We're trying in many different ways 00:02:34.533 --> 00:02:38.533 to decrease the cost of whatever we can do in our clinic 00:02:38.700 --> 00:02:41.000 and to maximize the success rate.