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by gataca 2946 days ago
This is a great idea. I work in clinical diagnostics at a large academic health care center and the prices billed to patients are absurd once you see the actual costs of the testing. What’s your strategy to decrease the testing cost compared to reproductive endocrinology clinics? Is it simply a lower markup?
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Thanks! Totally agree- this was my exact experience (billed $1500). Today, women typically get these tests when they are having issues and we are making them available to women before they start trying to conceive. There are only ~500 infertility clinics in the US so when you think about the volume of testing they do vs. a general healthy population being able to access these tests, we get different economies of scale and can pass on these savings. We have invested a lot in our processes to support this scale.