Smart Cycle: 101
The Smart Cycle is Progyny’s easy-to-understand benefit currency, which bundles individual services, tests, and treatments together. Members never worry about running out of coverage mid-treatment.
Comprehensive coverage
Every aspect of a member’s comprehensive fertility treatment is contained within the Smart Cycle, including diagnostics, testing, lab services, and treatments.
Personalized care
Trying to make sense of it all? Our dedicated Patient Care Advocates (PCAs) provide support and guidance to members as they navigate their journey.
How It Works
The Smart Cycle is incredibly flexible and allows a provider to customize the most appropriate treatment plan for each member, the first time. Depending on the type of treatment, a member may use an entire Smart Cycle or only a part of it.
Flexibility. Equity. No Compromises.
Progyny bundles individual services, tests, and treatments into its proprietary Smart Cycle to ensure the best possible outcome. The flexibility of our Smart Cycle allows members to mix and match the treatments they need, ensuring equity across the diverse fertility needs of an organization. Progyny achieves an equitable benefit that allows all employees access to care regardless of where they live or which path to parenthood they pursue. Members never worry that they will run out of coverage in the middle of a treatment thus avoiding having to make difficult decisions about their care.
Ways to use the Smart Cycle
IVF Fresh Cycle
Katherine and her husband Tom have had trouble conceiving. Katherine discovers she has diminished ovarian reserve and her doctor recommends IVF.
Katherine has used ¾ Smart Cycle
¾ Smart Cycle
Reciprocal IVF Cycle
Jessica and Letitia are a same-sex female couple that would like to expand their family. Both partners would like to be involved in the family building process, so they elect to do reciprocal IVF. Letitia will carry a baby created from Jessica’s egg.
Jessica and Letitia have used 1¼ Smart Cycles
¼ Smart Cycle
¾ Smart Cycle
¼ Smart Cycle
Surrogacy
Jonah and his husband Mike want to build their family and decide to use surrogacy. Through the Progyny benefit they have equitable access to the family building benefits they need to create embryos and they also have a surrogacy reimbursement through Jonah’s employer.
Jonah and Mike have used 1½ Smart Cycles
1 Smart Cycle
½ Smart Cycle
Egg Freezing Cycle
Nora knows she would like to be a mother but isn’t ready to start her family yet.
Nora has used 1/2 Smart Cycle
1/2 Smart Cycle
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