266 Break the IVF Cartel. Dr. Francisco Arredondo, Dr. Robert Kiltz

What’s the definition of a cartel, and has the way we pay for care created one in fertility?This week on Inside Reproductive Health, two practice-owning REIs with very different models join Griffin to push that question hard. Dr. Robert Kiltz (CNY Fertility) and Dr. Francisco Arredondo (Pozitvf IVF & The IVF Academy) dig into the economics, the ethics, and the possible alternatives to the status quo.They discuss:Dr. Arredondo’s argument that today’s IVF system resembles a cartel (and what can be done about it)The right question to ask about access and cost in IVFHow insurance helped create today’s medical-industrial complexDr. Kiltz’s meeting with HHS leadership and what it revealedLessons from Aravind Eye Care in India (Could that model work for IVF?)What the IVF Academy is teaching clinicians about entrepreneurship and sustainable practiceThis episode doesn’t offer easy answers. It’s a clear-eyed conversation about structural incentives, mission, and what it will take to make IVF more affordable and accessible.