IVF Use in America: State IVF Rates and Rankings (Map), by Abbie Waters

Here is an interesting article by Abbie Waters of Fertility Nation in IVF
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Americans love in vitro fertilization.

Despite the fact that IVF is expensive and most insurance plans don’t cover it, more than 50,000 American children a year are born using the procedure. That works out to more than 1 percent of US births annually!

The people of Washington D.C. use IVF more than any other state and almost twice as much as the second-ranked state (Massachusetts), while those in Maine, Montana, and Wyoming don’t use IVF treatments at all — at least in their home states.

Scroll down for the complete rankings.


Via: Fertility Nation

The United States of IVF: State IVF Rates and Rankings

Rank	State	Per Capita IVF Rate For Every 100,000 People
1	Washington D.C.	227.1
2	Massachusetts	127.9
3	Maryland	98.3
4	New York	92.6
5	New Jersey	90.9
6	Connecticut	90.1
7	Illinois	67.4
8	Rhode Island	62.9
9	Delaware	58.1
10	Hawaii	55.4
11	California	44.1
12	Nevada	42.3
13	Colorado	40.5
14	Minnesota	37.0
15	Virginia	33.9
16	Washington	33.3
17	Florida	31.6
18	Kansas	31.4
19	Ohio	31.1
19	Utah	31.1
21	Texas	30.9
22	Pennsylvania	30.5
23	Michigan	29.5
24	Oregon	29.2
25	North Carolina	27.6
26	Nebraska	27.2
27	Arizona	27.1
28	Iowa	26.6
29	Missouri	26.1
30	Georgia	25.7
31	North Dakota	24.0
32	Indiana	22.9
33	South Dakota	22.1
34	Idaho	20.5
35	South Carolina	20.1
36	Louisiana	19.2
36	Vermont	19.2
38	Alabama	19.0
39	Wisconsin	18.1
40	Oklahoma	17.3
41	Alaska	16.0
42	Tennessee	15.7
43	New Hampshire	13.1
44	Arkansas	11.3
45	New Mexico	11.0
46	Mississippi	8.6
47	Kentucky	8.3
48	West Virginia	5.3
49	Maine*	0
49	Montana**	0
49	Wyoming**	0
* Maine had one fertility clinic fail to report its success rates. ** Montana and Wyoming have no fertility clinics.

States That Use IVF the Most
All of the top five and eight of the top ten states for IVF are located on the east coast (Washington D.C., Massachusetts, Maryland, New York, New Jersey, Connecticut, Rhode Island, and Delaware).

It’s also interesting that all of the top ten states have lower-than-average percentages of people without health insurance coverage (the national average was 15.8).


States That Use IVF the Least
The ten lowest-ranked states are spread over more regions, tend to be located in low-density states with low populations and low average household incomes.

This helps explain why so few IVF procedures are performed in these places. Because IVF treatments cost a lot of money out-of-pocket, people in these states can’t afford as many procedures as their top-ranked counterparts.

How I Created State IVF Rates and Rankings
Using 2008 data on fertility clinic success rates from the CDC and 2008 state populations from the US Census Bureau, I created per capita IVF rates for each state. Per capita IVF rates tell us how many IVF cycles were started in each state for every 100,000 people living there.

These statistics count the total number of IVF cycles started using a woman’s own fresh and frozen eggs. Some IVF cycles may include additional fertility treatments such as GIFT, ZIFT, ICSI, and blastocyst transfers.

These statistics don’t count IVF treatments that used donor eggs, nor do they indicate states’ IVF success rates (live birth rates).

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