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Amid Covid baby boom, Fertility Associates puts itself up for sale
10 Mar, 2021 04:35 AM
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A Fertility Associates pitch to investors reveals a high-margin business - but its head says there are extra expenses ahead, as well as new opportunities in areas such as "social fertility" (keep reading).
Read More A leaked presentation says the company, currently owned by its doctors, will have operating earnings of $14 million on revenue of $44m in its 2021 financial year as patients pay around $14,000 per IVF cycle.
Fertility Associates now has five clinics around NZ, and an estimated 70 per cent market share, with most of the balance going to the public health system's IVF unit, Fertility Plus, then a slither to a local outpost of an Australian chain.
your ability to be fertile will improve. there's genetic factors. you don't want people to feel it's all their fault because some people have a problem they need to get fixed or can't get fixed and that's the reason they're infertile. but this is very happy news. >> i thought that was excellent question. i think the effect of smoking stays in your system for at least 10 to 15 years. all that depends on how much you smoked. if you're a heavy smoker, the sooner you stop the better off you are. most of the smoking and alcohol has to do with the mobility of the sperm. and when you get checked, if the first time the lab is abnormal, don't rely on that. it's always excellent choice to go for the second analysis and find out if you have enough v, cetera. always talk to the experts. you have to look at the sexual hormones. >> i think this is in your area of specialty, but i know a lot of women who freeze eggs. they're not -- they're career women. they're not ready to have children. they want to prepare for later on. can men freeze sperm? >> we do that all the time. >> really?
to help with mobility of the sperm, that has improved. for women ivf science has improved drastically. the success rate is much improved. we're able to using with for example, methods such as what we call -- take sperm and really inject it into the cytoplasm. looking at the lifestyle and what they're doing and also our technique, we have improved. mind you, i tell you, age is one factor. smoking is a huge enemy of fertility plus alcohol. make sure you don't lose a lot of weight or gain a lot of weight. that changes your whole hormones. smoking, alcohol, age and weight gain and weight loss are big risk factors. >> what do you see in your practice, dr. siegel? >> i want to define fertility. infertility means trying to get pregnant for a year with one person, one couple. that's infertility. >> without contraception. >> exactly. without contraception. the reason that's improving in women david was alluding to. one of it is technology.