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The Infertility Marketplace
How Success Rates Are Advertised
By the Federal Trade Commission
About one in six U.S. couples is infertile. If you are among them, you may have considered contacting a health care provider who offers advanced infertility services.
Most infertility service providers will tell you what their record has been in helping couples. But in talking with or writing to different providers, you may find that success rates are calculated differently, making it confusing to select among the more than 200 programs offering these advanced services.
In addition, a particular infertility service may have a lower success rate than others, but specialize in more difficult cases. Or, a service may have a very good overall success rate, but not be the best one to treat your particular problem. Infertility experts emphasize that your chances for success depend on many factors, such as age and cause of infertility.
The staff at the Federal Trade Commission has reviewed how success-rate claims are calculated by infertility services. The following information may help in evaluating these claims and selecting the best program for your specific needs.
Ask which specific procedures are included or omitted in the figures. This information can be difficult to understand, so ask for it in "plain English."
Included here are explanations of some frequently used success-rate calculations.
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