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The Employer’s Infertility Solution™

ARC can offer a new health benefit to your employees — coverage for infertility care and treatment, at no cost to you. This benefit, The Employer’s Infertility Solution™ is a comprehensive, integrated cost saving infertility program to help you meet the health care needs of your employees. Your company can take advantage of this solution, which includes The ARC Fertility Program^® for your employees. Offering this contribution or benefit will also demonstrate your company’s commitment to equal opportunity standards in health benefits.

The Employer’s Infertility Solution™ Includes:

The ARC Fertility Program^® for your Employees

• High Quality Fertility Care Provided by the largest National Network of Specialists
• The ARC Healthy Baby Program™
• Unique & Comprehensive Package Prices for Clinical Care & Pharmaceuticals
• Financing and a Refund Guarantee
• ARC is Dedicated to the Advancement of Reproductive Health, Education & Research

The Need to Offer a Defined Fertility Program

• One in six couples suffer from infertility.
• Infertility is a highly emotional issue that affects productivity.
• There is an absence of defined fertility contribution or benefit programs.
• Recent legal rulings create exposure for employers.

Historical Issues with Offering A Fertility Program

• Uncontrollability of cost of care.
• Unpredictability of cost of care.
• Employer unhappiness with cost of multiple births
• Unhappiness of employees with poor outcomes, unnecessary treatment and wasted time.

Risks of NOT Offering a Defined Fertility Program

• Employers pay unconsciously today even if infertility is not covered
• Cost shifting of infertility treatment by coding with non-infertility diagnoses. (See "Infertility Related Diagnosis Codes"). Carriers don't identify this cost shifting.
• Delayed, excessive or inappropriate care from physicians inexperienced in providing infertility treatment.
• The inability to attract and retain top employees.
• The inability to know or control the cost of the benefit.

Advantages to Employers of Advanced Reproductive Care (ARC)

• The only national solution to offering a Defined Fertility Program with predetermined price alternatives from which employers and employees may choose.
• You can offer The ARC Fertility Program^® at no cost to your company. You have full control over how much, if any, your company wishes to contribute.
• Patients and employers know cost in advance of treatment.
• Demonstrated success enables refund guarantee option to patient.
• Employer addresses sensitive recruiting issue with appropriate remedy -- includes web link presence for Intranet.
• Voluntary arrangement has no ERISA or administrative impact -- just sign participation agreement & make available to employees & families.

The ARC Fertility Program^®

Employers May Choose the Type of Program They Wish to Provide

Examples are:

• The Comprehensive Initial Evaluation
• One cycle of in vitro fertilization ("IVF")
• Two cycles of IVF
• Three cycles of IVF
• Flexible Care Packages of Services
• Pharmaceutical Services
  
• Refund Guarantee
  

The Partnership of Employer and Employee in The ARC Fertility Program^®

The Employer and Employee may choose various levels of participation in The ARC Fertility Program^® :

• Choice of predetermined-price and service packages.
• Choice of co-payment structures.
• Choice of risk-sharing for outcomes with ARC. 
• Either voluntary or part of Employers self-insured plan PPO/EPO network.

Advantages of The ARC Fertility Program^® 

• Replaces fertility-related expenditures already occurring under existing health plans.
  
• Defines packages of services on the basis of achieving the desired patient outcomes.
  
• Places a predetermined price on each package of services so the cost is known by the employer.
  
• Offers a choice of service packages to employers and their employees.
  
• Offers a choice of employer-employee financial participation in the fertility benefit.
• National network of over 250 invited fertility specialists (approx 1/3 of total US) -- adhere to strict clinical protocols to ensure better clinical outcomes.
• Located in major metropolitan areas.

ARC is the only national company in reproductive medicine offering the scope of expertise, commitment to excellence, and structure of care found in The Employer's Infertility Solution.

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