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Introduced May 23, 2025 by Diana Harshbarger · Last progress May 23, 2025
The bill increases attention, training, research, coding, and reporting for infertility and restorative reproductive medicine—potentially improving diagnosis and non‑IVF options—while risking a shift of funding, clinical emphasis, and access away from established contraceptive and assisted‑reproduction services with added administrative and budgetary costs.
Millions of patients (including women, men, teens, and families) will see more trained clinicians and expanded educational resources on fertility awareness and restorative reproductive medicine, improving counseling and clinical management.
Coordinated HHS research and reporting on infertility (including male factors and environmental risks) will increase scientific knowledge, inform policy, and could accelerate better diagnostics and treatments over time.
Clearer definitions for infertility and standardized guidance on eligibility/standards of care (e.g., diagnostic timeframes and a broader list of recognized treatments) will help patients know when they qualify for evaluation and what options may be available.
Low-income women and Title X patients may lose access to comprehensive contraceptive counseling and standard family‑planning services if Title X funding and grants shift toward fertility‑awareness and restorative approaches.
Mandated trainings, new program requirements, coding/billing changes, and expanded reporting will impose administrative and compliance costs on clinics, health systems, and HHS, straining small or resource‑limited providers and federal agencies.
Definitional emphasis and policy preference for restorative reproductive medicine (and named methods like NaProTechnology) risks biasing coverage and clinical practice toward those approaches, potentially restricting access to standard treatments, contraceptives, or ART for some patients.
Based on analysis of 14 sections of legislative text.
Directs HHS to expand training, research, coding, payment, and program access for restorative reproductive medicine and fertility‑awareness methods and protects providers who decline ART on moral/religious grounds.
Requires the Department of Health and Human Services to expand training, research, data collection, medical coding, and federal program access focused on restorative reproductive medicine, fertility‑awareness methods, and related reproductive health conditions. It conditions some Title X grant relationships on staff training, directs updates to diagnostic and billing codes and reimbursement approaches, funds research coordination and reporting, protects providers who decline to participate in assisted reproductive technology on moral or religious grounds, and adjusts Teen Pregnancy Prevention program outreach to include restorative reproductive care providers.