Infertility Services for Veterans Enrolled in Veterans Health Administration Care.

ABSTRACT:

Background

Infertility care is provided to Veterans through the Veterans Health Administration (VHA) medical benefits package and includes infertility evaluation and many infertility treatments.

Objective

Our objective was to examine the incidence and prevalence of infertility diagnoses and the receipt of infertility healthcare among Veterans using Veterans Health Administration (VHA) healthcare from 2018 to 2020.

Methods

Veterans using the VHA and diagnosed with infertility during October 2017-September 2020 (FY18-20) were identified in VHA administrative data and through VA-purchased care (i.e., community care) claims. Infertility was categorized among men as azoospermia, oligospermia, and other and unspecified male infertility, and among women as anovulation, infer

SUBMITTER: Kroll-Desrosiers A 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC9943037 | biostudies-literature | 2023 Aug

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature