Dr. Paul C. Magarelli, MD

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Jodi Calnan

I just finished my first Ivf with dr mag. I would advise anyone to proceed with caution. If this is the only way you can afford to go through with Ivf, as somebody who understands the despair of infertility, then do it. If youre able to spring for pgd def do it. However, you get what you pay for. i will start with, as a doctor I actually really like Dr magarelli. Hes to the point, very knowledgeable, seems to always be researching and absorbing more information. With that, I saw him at my consult appt and at my transfer. Only. Im told he is who preformed my egg retrieval, I never saw him, talked to him, heard from him, nothing. Every test, physical, ultra sound, appt was preformed by a nurse or np. So while Ill say I like him Ill be the first to say I have very little interaction with him. During my entire cycle a lot of administration problems occurred (appts r/s without my knowledge, waiting an hour for trial transfer with a full bladder, many many many very late appts bc of other schedules, lab results not being called to me etc". Very little instruction was given to me at all during my cycle. It was often "refer to your handbook". Weather Im paying 4800 or 20000, I am a patient, I want that face to face going over what is expected. My interpretation may be different then your indication. My cycle did result in a pregnancy which is good news for my husband and I, however it resulted in a miscarriage. We have no more embryos left and are faced with the decision of what to do next. My hcg report was never called to me. That particular day between my husband and I we called 4x to get our results. The only reason why we ended up getting them is bc one of the nurses drove into the office at 830 to get them for me. The following week on another pregnancy test, when we were already aware a problem was occurring but unsure if it was a miscarriage or ectopic, again I called 3 times before I finally spoke to a nurse. I will be the first to admit, I hate waiting. However, I like structure. So I always ask, when can I expect a call? I never called until 30 minutes pass the time I was told to expect a call by. My stress level would have been much lower if they stuck to what I was being told and I would prob have a much different opinion right now. With my failed cycle I did meet with the Doctor. I wanted to figure out what hed do different if we went back and try to express to him my frustrations. The solution to him, the patient portal. So if you do not know what that is, it is a tool that allows everything to be done online. So even less face to face patient relationship which I believe is where most of my frustration stems from. Ivf is a highly emotion, trying, EXPENSIVE, roller coaster. You have no relationship with the person making all the decisions in your cycle. That to me is not high quality. That is a puppy mill. In my opinion, while I do not believe greed is the culprit in this case, the business has grown to big to give any kind of patient care and like I said "you get what you pay for". On a side note for comparison, I shot off an email to another clinic to discuss options, as I said were very on the fence to our next cycle, I was wanting to set up a consult with a doctor whom Ive worked with before. After this last Ivf cycle and lack of patient interaction, with in 4 hours of sending my email you can probably imagine my SHOCK when that Doctor personally called me and apologized that I had to go through my miscarriage (something you would of expected my doc of my cycle to have done). best of luck to any couple in this struggle.

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Britney Duston

Infertility is a hard journey to go through, and my husband and I didnt have the best start. We transferred doctors I think 5 times before we found Dr. Magarelli and his team. We left doctors for various reasons, either they couldnt take us to the next level, they retired, or we found them to be incompetent and inconsiderate to our situation. Dr. Magarellis team was different. He has a strong personality that we initially interpreted as pushy towards IVF. When we asked him about it, he cleared it up for us. He gave us a spreadsheet of all of our options, and the % chance for success. Then he left the decision up to us on how we wanted to proceed. I believe he does specialize with IVF but thats because there is a huge need for that in the Southern Colorado area. His staff is amazing, and they ask their patients to let them know if they are giving anything but a 5 star experience. I felt heard by every team member, and I felt they truly empathized with our situation. They made us feel welcome, and they made us feel as though we arent alone. The only reason I am not currently giving them a 5 star rating is because I wish they were a little more vocal on some aspects. For example, during my retrieval process, I was told to consume more protein because I was running a high risk for Over Hyperstimulation. However, I wish they had given me more ideas on how to accomplish consuming the huge amounts of protein I needed. I was getting sick off of protein shakes, and protein bars werent enough either. I felt like I was eating nothing but meat. I ended up getting OHSS and had to be in the hospital for about a week. Absolutely horrible. I will say that Dr. Hayes (who is a part of Dr. Magarellis team) checked on me everyday and was awesome in the post care for that procedure. The cost is very competitive to other facilities. I really felt like their financial team looked for the best deals and options for us. For example, they did a frozen embryo process so that we were able to go back for a reduced price because we didnt have to redo the retrieval. He also gave us information on FET and that it had better success rates for them. They determined, based on what meds we would use, which vendor to purchase from to get the best deal. I will admit that our very first IVF cycle was a success, and we are expecting our little girl this summer! I just wanted to be honest about that. I will say I was planning on writing this review before finding out our results, but I didnt want my personal experience public yet. Take it as you will, if our first cycle wasnt successful, I would have 100% went back with this team to try again. They really fought for us and our goal of becoming a family.

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Amy B

We had two cycles at RMFC which both failed. However, I was a tough case with a history of previous multiple IVF failures and unexplained miscarriages. I am grateful that Dr. Magarelli took a chance on us. I caution you in looking at SART data and CDC success rates; clinics can artificially inflate their own success rates by only taking on the easy cases. A clinics success rates alone do not tell the whole story. When other clinics turned us away in an effort to protect their success rates, Dr. Magarelli was willing to treat us. When our second cycle at RMFC failed, he called me on the phone personally (usually the nurses do this; in 11 years of infertility, Ive NEVER had a doctor call me to discuss a failed cycle - ever). I apologized to him for helping to drag down his success rate. He said: "Let me be very clear: I dont care about that. I only wish that I could have helped you." He was genuine and sincere. He listened to all my concerns and was even willing to try a Day-3 embryo transfer for one of my cycles at my insistence. Day 5 transfers are the norm in the industry today and are statistically the most successful. But I wanted to try a Day 3 and so he did it (and it failed, thatll teach me to play doctor). Over the years, weve been to four different clinics and have seen a half-dozen Reproductive Endocrinologists. His staff was, hands down, the best. Sincere, compassionate, warm, accommodating, empathetic, I cant say enough good things. Dr. Magarelli is very no-nonsense, so if youre looking for a shoulder to cry on about your infertility, keep looking, but let me know when you find that. I am a no-nonesense kind of gal whos been through the infertility wringer several times, so I appreciated his directness and candor. I can see how that might put people off, but Id rather have a cocky, competent doctor than a warm and fuzzy one whos not as capable. Yes, he pushes IVF - no kidding he does. Its the most successful treatment for infertility. He stays on top of the latest research and is at the cutting edge of everything fertility. He did manage to get four of our embryos cryopreserved from our last cycle and were gearing up for another Frozen Embryo Transfer (FET) at yet another clinic (weve since moved away from Colorado). No other doctor has managed to get us that many leftover embryos; most of our cycles ended with no embryos leftover at all. Take it from an infertility veteran: RMFC is as good as it gets.