IVF Disrupted Ep 4: Fertility Care, Meet Sales Targets

About this episode

This episode investigates how financial pressures at Kindbody influenced medical decisions in fertility care.

Kindbody implements quotas requiring doctors to perform more lucrative procedures, internal company documents show In this episode, patients report being pushed toward expensive IVF cycles and questionable add-ons. Reporter Jackie Davalos investigates how financial pressure drove medical decisions at the struggling fertility chain—including one woman's painful and seemingly unnecessary procedure that would leave her questioning everything. Read more:  IVF Disrupted: The Kindbody Story See omnystudio.com/listener for privacy information.

People in this episode

Guest: Jackie Davalos

Topics covered

• fertility care
• IVF
• medical ethics
• financial pressure
• patient experiences

Keywords

• IVF
• fertility
• Kindbody
• medical decisions
• patient care
• financial pressure
• healthcare ethics

Mentioned in this episode

Organizations: Kindbody

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