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BALTIMORE (Map, News) - Baltimore might be in line for a baby boom.
Shady Grove, a Rockville-based reproductive science center, runs nine offices throughout the Washington metropolitan area, but will make its first excursion into the Baltimore market with its acquisition of Greater Baltimore Medical Center’s Fertility Center. Completed late last week, the deal includes renaming the facility Shady Grove Fertility at GBMC and bringing Shady Grove’s well-known patient-care option to Baltimore.
Known as the Shared Risk 100 Percent Refund program, birth of a baby is guaranteed 100 percent, or the facility will issue a full, money-back refund to the patients.
“They are by far the market leader, and we wanted to work with a company that has a proven track record, is active in the business and is committed to the market,” said John Ellis, senior vice president of corporate strategy and business development.
“The advantage from our side is that we keep the service on campus and participate in its growth because the patients will still get all their services here,” he said.
One of the links between Shady Grove and the GBMC Fertility Center are the doctors that work there. Greater Baltimore doctors Eugene Katz, Ricardo Yazigi and Wende Allen have followed work done at Shady Grove’s other offices and had become fans of its progressive practices, including the Shared Risk option.
The state of Maryland mandates IVF as a covered health benefit, but Shady Grove estimates that 40 percent of couples are not actually covered due to strict limitations. These include stipulations such as limits on the number of embryos transferred. According to advancedfertility.com, the average cost of an IVF cycle in the U.S. is more than $10,000.
Following the acquisition, Shady Grove estimates five out of every 10 IVF treatments in the Baltimore-Washington corridor will be through one of their centers.
“From a patient’s perspective, it will look the same as usual,” said Mark Segal, chief executive officer of Shady Grove. “Changes are really taking place behind the scenes, with electronics, machinery and lab upgrades.”
Since 1984, GBMC’s Fertility Center has helped more than 5,000 couples conceive, while performing about 400 IVF cycles annually.
dcarey@baltimoreexaminer.com
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Albert Franklin said:
However, when the County chooses to address the $2 billion dollars Jerry Brown bilked from them in a meaningful manner, then this should all become most academic!
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As an employee of SF General Hospital's psych dept., where none of us wear uniforms nor have lines on the floor that patients can't cross and where we train patients to take better care of themselves (including the activities of daily living such as nutrition, personal hygeine and the like), I am a bit mystified by John Nickens' comments. Has he been in a hospital in the past 20 years or so?
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I love the fact that they are turning Dore Alley (not Street) from an iconic Gay area into another crazy person magnet in the already crazy SOMA. Last year a doorman at the Powerhouse came to the defense of a patron being attacked by a nut-job housed across the street (along door alley) by another "non" profit. The police arrested the DOORMAN for gods sake, and the Powerhouse had to hold fundraisers to pay his legal expenses. Why is the City being allowed to take our great SOMA neighborhood and turn it into another Tenderloin? How sad.
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jacksmith said:
Insurance mandates are not universal health care. And politicians should stop calling it that. Nothing is Universal Health Care except "Single Payer Not For Profit Tax Supported Government Managed Health Care" (HR 676). Insurance mandates will be worse than what you have now. And what you have now is a complete, and total disgrace, and horror show. Insurance mandates will (require) you to buy insurance from the private insurance companies that have been ripping you off, and killing you by the thousands.
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Examiner Reader said:
know of a guy who came here for a couple of years and got on the welfare medical roles in san francisco and had major surgery done to a problem eye he was born with in Mexico, had the work done at taxpayer expense and moved back to Mexico permanently. Wow and I can't even get medical insurance without breaking the bank.
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Jeff, an Independent said:
I wonder how many Illegal Aliens are going to exploit this...
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Examiner Reader said:
The sheep want to give O'Malley a health care victory.
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Another rash decision by the immature Ulman. You are going to have people move to Howard County just for the free medical insurance. That'll be good for the tax base. Ulman was "Secretary of the Cabinet" under Glendening, the worst MD governor in the last 30 years. Under Ulman's Cabinet leadership, Glendening created a structural deficit that we deal with still today. Ulman deserves the blame for this. Now we are going to support another big-government idea from him? Unless, of course, Ulman wasn't really "Secretary of the Cabinet" under Glendening. But that would mean he would have lied about his resume, which can't be the case.
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I'm sorry for going on and on, but if Dr. Renold Keyser wouldn' have told my parents what he found I would not be here today. It began when I was 6 months, then a different tumor when I was 5 years old. Dr. Howard Lederman was my Dr. at JHH, both are my angels. Even though I have lasting effects, I wouldn't be here if it wasn't for them both. Dr. Renold Keyser is from Hagerstown MD, I love them both and Dr. Howard Lederman is from JHH. Dr. Alex Hollar did my surgery, he was chief of surgery back then. I still keep in contact w both dr's. I was given a second chance. So if anyone that reads this has any doubt about their sickness Please go to JHH. They will save ur life. I'm now 26 yrs. old and doing great because of them. My email is sshantz123@yahoo.com if u have any questions or would just like to talk. I enjoy helping people and trying to give back what was given to me. Dr. Cindy Swartz was also a big help, however she's not there anymore, she moved to NY and is now the d
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Could this be the begining of the end. Med companies will probably buy up the Patents to save their income. How can we stop them?
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Perhaps Miss Lietz should read the harvard medical school study that came out this march stating Indoor tanning prevents melonoma cancer, thats the Dana -Farber cancer institute, Miss Lietz was scheldued in Annapolis to address this at a legistative meeting she did not show, thats www.dana-farber.org
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I doubt that Miss Lietz will be telling the students about the Harvard Medical School's Dana Farber Cancer Institute study that concluded "Tanning Protects Against Skin Cancer." Miss Lietz should stop blaming herself for getting skin cancer. She should know by now that nothing she did caused her to get the disease. It's genetic. Tanning didn't cause it. Tanning salons are not to blame. The fact of the matter is, moderate tanning is healthy behavior. It prevents more diseases by the processing of vitamin D3. It's time for Miss Lietz to go back to Nursing School. She has a lot to learn.
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