Navigating Health Insurance Selection for IVF Benefits

University of California San Diego

Status: Completed

Conditions: Infertility

Treatments: Behavioral: Health insurance educational guide

Study type: Interventional

Funder types: Other

Identifiers

NCT05663645

805955

Details and patient eligibility

About

The purpose of this study is to evaluate the effectiveness of an educational intervention on health insurance literacy and utilization of in vitro fertilization (IVF) insurance benefits. The investigators hypothesize that the intervention is acceptable and satisfactory and will result in increased health insurance literacy and utilization of IVF benefits.

Enrollment: 221 patients

Sex: All

Ages: 18 to 50 years old

Volunteers: Accepts Healthy Volunteers

Inclusion criteria

• Employees eligible for health insurance coverage
• Reproductive aged (18 to 50 years)
• Intention to grow their family in the next year
• Primary language English or Spanish

Exclusion criteria

• None

Trial design

Primary purpose: Supportive Care

Allocation: Randomized

Interventional model: Parallel Assignment

Masking: None (Open label)

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221 participants in 2 patient groups

Health insurance educational guide

Experimental group

Description:

Eligible individuals will receive a health insurance educational guide to support choosing among 5 health plans for IVF coverage. They will also receive receive a one-page guide with a link to the Open Enrollment website that is available to all employees during the open enrollment period.

Treatment:

Behavioral: Health insurance educational guide

Usual care

No Intervention group

Description:

Eligible individuals will receive a one-page guide with a link to the Open Enrollment website that is available to all employees during the open enrollment period.