Is Your Fertility Doctor Taking Kickbacks?
By Cassie Murdoch,
Slate
| 07. 13. 2012
People take out loans to buy a car or a house or to send a child (or themselves) to college. And these days, more and more people are also taking out loans to create babies. It makes sense: A single cycle of IVF can run about $12,000, which, for most people, is A LOT of money. Responding to the growing IVF market, companies that give loans to fund fertility treatments are sprouting up across the country.
The
Today Show’s Dr. Nancy Snyderman recently
filed a report about the dozens of these fertility finance companies that are changing the way couples think about their options for having children. In theory, they’re just like any other loan company—except that they’re dealing with a population of borrowers who are often far more emotionally vulnerable than your average home buyer, and many of these lenders seem totally comfortable taking advantage of that fact. There are some that charge exorbitant interest rates, and others that are engaging in something far more unethical: Snyderman reports that some lenders are giving fertility doctors kickbacks or a...
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