In an ideal world , your family physician or gynecologist would refer you to the best IVF clinic – one which provides the best possible medical care , to maximize your chances of getting pregnant . Unfortunately , this is not an ideal world and the fact remains that the medical profession has been riddled with corruption .
This
is especially true for expensive high ticket items such as IVF , and many IVF clinics
routinely provide a kickback (a referral fee or commission ) to gynecologists
and family physicians who refer IVF patients to them .
This
corruption has become embedded systemically , specially with the introduction
of Corporate IVF Clinic Chains, across the country , whose major focus is on
numbers , and maximizing their revenue . The easiest way to get more patients
is by incentivizing doctors to refer patients to them , by giving them a
commission . This is justified as being the cost of doing business , and rationalized
as the cost of customer acquisition .
This
maybe great for the referring doctor and the IVF clinic , because helps them earn
more money , it’s not good for you as a patient .
Since
all this is done under the table , it is very hard for you to know if the doctor
who is referring you to a particular IVF clinic is doing it because it's the
best clinic , or is getting a referral fee to do so.
While
there is no simple answer , if any IVF clinic asks for payment in cash , this should
be a Red Flag . Asking for money in cash is illegal , but sadly this is still
something many IVF clinics do routinely, because they want to hide the income they
report to the income tax officers .
We
can promise you that none of the money you spend on treatment at our clinic
will ever be siphoned off to and given to a doctor , because we don't give any kickbacks
– plain and simple,
We
believe in putting patients first, because we believe our responsibility is to
you - to get you pregnant as soon as possible, rather than to help the doctor who
referred you to make more money .
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