# Your IVF clinic reports every cycle to a federal system, and the outcome is not known for months.

![A clinic data coordinator checking unresolved ART cycle outcomes against the annual reporting deadline on a fertility clinic office screen, used to show where federal submissions are assembled.](https://neurobird.com/ivffertility/ivffertility-hero.webp)
*The outcome being reported is a birth, which is why the year stays open so long.*

> An IVF fertility clinic is a facility performing assisted reproductive technology procedures, and in the United States it is a federally reporting one. Clinics performing ART must provide data on the procedures they perform each year, from which standardised success rates are calculated and published. The reporting is unusual because an outcome is not known until the pregnancy resolves, so a cycle performed in one year is reported well into the next.

- URL: https://neurobird.com/ivffertility/
- Product: Neurobird IVF Fertility Clinic Operations Platform
- Niche: IVF fertility clinic
- Buyer: fertility clinics and ART laboratories
- Status: in development, open for early access
- Updated: 2026-08-26

## What Neurobird IVF Fertility Clinic does

- Record each cycle in the shape the federal submission needs, at the time it happens.
- Hold outcomes open until they resolve, because a live birth can be months past the cycle.
- Track which cycles are still unresolved so submission completeness is visible before verification.
- Keep laboratory certification and accreditation status against the clinic record.

## How it works

1. **Cycle** Each ART cycle opens a reporting record at the point of care, structured for the annual submission rather than for the chart alone.
2. **Resolve** Outcomes attach as they become known, and unresolved cycles stay visible, since the earliest reporting date is months past the end of the reporting year.
3. **Submit and verify** The annual submission is built from resolved records, and verification becomes a check rather than a reconstruction.

## From the source material

> Infertility is a reproductive health disorder generally defined as the inability to achieve a successful pregnancy after a certain time period of attempting to become pregnant.

Source: Congressional Research Service, assisted reproductive technology regulation and oversight, https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF13144/IF13144.1.pdf

## Industry context

- **453 clinics** The annual report for 2021 included data from 453 clinics, covering roughly 414,000 ART cycles and about 92,000 live births. (source: Congressional Research Service, https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF13144/IF13144.1.pdf)
- **2.5%** ART accounted for roughly 2.5 percent of all births in the United States in that reporting year. (source: Congressional Research Service, https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF13144/IF13144.1.pdf)
- **50 clinics** Roughly 50 clinics did not submit data, or did not approve its inclusion in the annual report, in that year. (source: Congressional Research Service, https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF13144/IF13144.1.pdf)
- **98%** The surveillance system is estimated to hold information on about 98 percent of all ART cycles performed in the United States. (source: CDC National ART Surveillance System, https://www.cdc.gov/art/php/nass/index.html)
- **1992** Federal law from 1992 requires clinics performing ART to provide data annually on the procedures they carry out. (source: CDC National ART Surveillance System, https://www.cdc.gov/art/php/nass/index.html)

## Pricing

- Single clinic: $170 per month
- Group: $440 per month
- Network: $880 per month

## Questions

### What is ART reporting?

It is the annual federal reporting obligation that applies to clinics performing assisted reproductive technology. Clinics provide data on the procedures they perform, and standardised success rates are calculated for each clinic that reports, expressed per cycle or per transfer. Clinics that report and verify their data are considered to be in compliance with the federal requirement. It is an unusual arrangement in healthcare: a mandated national dataset with published, clinic level outcomes.

### Why does reporting lag the clinical year?

Because the outcome being reported is a birth. The earliest a clinic can report ART outcomes is roughly nine to ten months past the end of the reporting year, once all births from that year's cycles have occurred. That means a reporting year stays open well into the following one, and a clinic is often handling two reporting years simultaneously.

### How complete is the national dataset?

Very, though not total. A small number of clinics do not report and are listed as non reporters, but because most of those are small, the surveillance system is estimated to contain information on about 98 percent of all ART cycles in the United States. In the 2021 report roughly 50 clinics either did not submit data or did not approve its inclusion.

### What else does a clinic report?

Clinics also report certification of their embryo laboratories. The agency does not endorse particular accreditation programmes, but publishes each clinic's laboratory accreditation status alongside its outcomes. Laboratory practice additionally sits under the federal tissue rules, so the laboratory has its own compliance surface separate from the reporting one.

### Is the software available now?

No. It is in development and open for early access. We are building the cycle level reporting record with clinics that would rather accumulate the submission than rebuild it each year.

## Sources

- [Congressional Research Service, assisted reproductive technology regulation and oversight](https://www.congress.gov/crs_external_products/IF/PDF/IF13144/IF13144.1.pdf)
- [CDC, National ART Surveillance System](https://www.cdc.gov/art/php/nass/index.html)
- [21 CFR Part 1271, human cells, tissues and cellular products](https://www.law.cornell.edu/cfr/text/21/part-1271)

## Contact

- office@neurobird.com
- https://neurobird.com/