title: Economics of treatments for male infertility.
abstract: Economic factors play a major role in the consideration of treatment options for male reproduction. This article has summarized the data and provided new insight into how patients, insurers, and populations evaluate competing therapies for male infertility. Many studies are difficult to interpret because of differing success rates and monetary bias. Future studies comparing line-by-line costs and reimbursements by independent sources may be the best way to evaluate different treatments.
authors.affiliation: Section of Urology, Yale University School of Medicine, Yale Physicians Building, 3rd Floor, New Haven, CT 06520, USA.
authors.forename: David
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Shin
authors.forename: Stanton C
authors.initials: SC
authors.lastname: Honig
mesh_terms: D003362:Cost-Benefit Analysis / Q000191:economics / Q000706:statistics & numerical data; D017048:Health Care Costs / Q000706:statistics & numerical data*; D006801:Humans; D007248:Infertility, Male / Q000191:economics* / Q000628:therapy*; D008297:Male; D014481:United States