Mandating Coverage for Fertility Preservation — A Step in the Right Direction
- 26 October 2017
- journal article
- Published by Massachusetts Medical Society in The New England Journal of Medicine
- Vol. 377 (17), 1607-1609
- https://doi.org/10.1056/nejmp1709585
Abstract
Connecticut and Rhode Island recently became the first U.S. states to mandate insurance coverage of fertility-preservation services for patients about to undergo a medical treatment — surgery, radiation, or chemotherapy — that may have deleterious effects on the gonads.Keywords
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