Improving Implementation of Fertility Preservation Benefit Mandates.

ABSTRACT:

Importance

More than 90 000 adolescents and young adults are diagnosed with cancer and exposed to treatments that may threaten their future fertility every year. Fertility preservation (FP) services, such as egg, embryo, and sperm freezing, are available to preserve future fertility but are often underused by patients in part due to high cost. Eighteen states and Washington, DC, recently began mandating health insurance coverage for FP services, yet patients and clinicians report difficulty accessing mandated services.

Objective

To systematically identify determinants of implementing FP benefit mandates in fertility and oncology clinics to inform intervention development and future public policy.

Design, setting, and participants

In this mixed-methods study, fertility

SUBMITTER: McMenamin SB 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC12432631 | biostudies-literature | 2025 Sep

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature