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 Frequently Asked Questions (FAQ):
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Why should you choose
Columbia Fertility Associates? |
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Doctors Rafat Abbasi,
Safa Rifka and
Preston Sacks are
board certified in Reproductive Endocrinology and in
Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr.
Maurice Butler is board
certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology. Dr.
Richard Sherins is
board certified in Internal Medicine. All of our doctors are
highly regarded in their specific specialties.
- We are conveniently located at
three locations in the Washington, D.C.
metropolitan area.
- Our services are
competitively priced.
- We have top quality staff committed to providing you with the best and most up-to-date medical treatment available.
- Our laboratory is equipped with the latest and
most advanced equipment.
- But most of all our greatest asset is our commitment to personalized and compassionate patient care in a warm and friendly atmosphere.
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Are your laboratories accredited? |
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All of our laboratories are registered in
the District of Columbia, Maryland or Virginia. They
have been inspected by appropriate agencies and
received certificates of accreditation.
The IVF Laboratory in Washington, D.C. has been inspected
and accredited by the
College of American Pathologists (CAP) since
2003.
Inspections occur every two years. The last inspection was conducted in
August 2003. For patients accreditation is assurance that the laboratory
meets the highest standards of excellence as recognized by its peers.
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Do Columbia Fertility
Associates report statistics to the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART)? |
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All programs performing assisted
reproductive technology cycles are required by law
to report their data to the
Centers for Disease Control (CDC).
Columbia Fertility Associates are members of the
Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) and report
their data to the CDC through SART.
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Will my doctor be making all the decisions for my treatment and will he/she be there to perform my egg retrieval and embryo transfer? |
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Most of the time your own doctor will be making the decisions
during your infertility treatment cycles. However, there are times when
your doctor may not be available and another doctor from the practice may
have to be consulted.
Your retrieval and transfer will be scheduled with
your individual physician whenever possible. We do not have a "scheduled"
day when each doctor perfoms all the procedures that day no matter who's
patient.
At Columbia Fertility Associates we pride ourselves on
providing personalized service and believe that it is important that our
patients feel comfortable in knowing that their own doctor is intimately
involved in their treatment. This commitment to our patients is what makes
us different from other programs in the region.
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Do all insurance companies cover infertility? |
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