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Offering IVF Coverage to Employees — an Increasing Trend? Dr. Trolice Live on Spectrum News 13 - YouTube
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alright switching gears now in depth and
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there are different benefits that people
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look for when they're getting a job
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sometimes it's the pay other times it's
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the medical benefits and now some are
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looking at fertility benefits as we hear
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more now we're dr. mark trolleys joining
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us today good to see you thanks for
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coming in my pleasure let's talk about
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this parents now looking specifically
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for fertility treatments when you know
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as an employment benefit what are you
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seeing
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well it's increasing now there are
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employers are now providing insurance
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coverage for fertility patients and it
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looks like it's we're reducing the
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pre-authorization Starbucks was a
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pioneer in giving it to the frontline
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employees the hourly employees but
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that's also starting to increase in
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other companies so this is a huge
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benefit for patients is this kind of be
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it's about time oh absolutely it's awful
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the insurance covers for fertility
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patients Florida there's not very good
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coverage it's not a mandated State there
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are about 16 states in the country right
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now that provides some degree of
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insurance mandated coverage for
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infertility patients but it really it's
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about time the World Health Organization
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years ago designated infertility as a
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disease this should be covered and
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patients shouldn't have to beg borrow
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and steal for insurance coverage for or
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for payment for infertility because it's
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expensive well let's look at this
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Mercer which is a benefits consulting
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firm said 44% offered some sort of IVF
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which is in vitro fertilization benefit
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last year compared with 37% in 2017 so
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why are we seeing the change I think
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it's it's twofold one of them is that
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it's to empower patients and and and I
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think companies are realizing that the
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infertility is a disease the second is
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to ingratiate themselves with their
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employees they're seeing that employees
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value their company and will stay with
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their company longer
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if they provide them the benefits that
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are appropriate so it's it's definitely
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long overdue and I applaud the companies
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for doing this but we need more well you
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know often times you'll hear somebody
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say they're changing jobs you know they
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don't like the job climate they don't
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like the situation they're in but more
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so they don't like the medical benefits
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the medical benefits are too high I want
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to get a job where the medical benefits
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are are you know are lower easier to
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afford do you think someone would
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consider changing jobs for the better
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reproductive health benefits absolutely
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I've seen that personally patients will
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shop around and work somewhere there
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where there is fertility coverage you
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know Eric IVF which is the most
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aggressive form of therapy that we have
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it to assisted reproductive technology
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it's not a hundred percent successful
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it's probably close to around 50 percent
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on average so with that it's very
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difficult for couples to go to the
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degree of spending fifteen thousand or
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more depending upon where they live for
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a treatment that is not a guarantee and
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so I think companies are realizing that
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and I'm hoping and praying that state
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governments will start realizing that
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this is a disease that needs to be
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covered for patients instead of them
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having to pay out of pocket and going
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forward do you think that's it's going
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to be a trend where more will it's
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slowly increasing once again about 16
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states in this country cover five states
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are offering some fertility preservation
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coverage fertility preservation is where
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patients are freezing their eggs or
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sperm or embryos because they're being
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given a cancer diagnosis and they have
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to get treatment and the treatment can
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actually affect their fertility so it's
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a slow trend I'm gonna be in Washington
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in the next month advocating for better
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coverage for a specific condition called
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polycystic ovary syndrome which we've
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had you in for before yes PCOS challenge
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so we're going to be going there
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advocating for more benefits for
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insurance coverage and
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and for research as well as treatment
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okay well we've had you in for that
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already and I'm sure we'll will want to
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do an update when you return from from
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DC so keep us posted on that and thank
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you for coming to talk about this dr.
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mark Rallis always a pleasure my
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pleasure to see you alright
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