Your insurance may provide coverage for services offered by the OSF Women’s Health and Advanced Fertility Providers.Ask your insurer if OSF is an in-network provider.

Coverage for instruction on how to chart your menstrual cycle for purposes of achieving/avoiding pregnancy or to monitor your gynecological health is offered free of charge. Should a fertility-related medical diagnosis be determined, then medical services will be billed to your payor source including Medicaid. Usual deductible amounts or co-pays will apply.

Husbands are strongly encouraged to attend as many sessions as possible, however husband attendance is not required for the couple to use the method.

Yes! The Creighton Model is a great way to understand how your body works. The Creighton Model FertilityCare System allows a woman to monitor her reproductive and gynecologic health. 

Yes! The Creighton Model can be taught to any girl who has started her period. We do ask that you bring along some parental supervision while learning this method for participants younger than 18.

No, the Creighton Model looks at the pattern of each menstrual cycle. This method is accurate, easy to learn and understandable. It’s based on specific signs indicating days of fertility for those trying to achieve a pregnancy, or infertility, for those who want to avoid a pregnancy.

No, the Creighton Model is available to all women and couples regardless of faith. The method follows Catholic moral teaching in the area of human sexuality. 

Yes, the Creighton Model involves tracking biological markers (bio-markers) which are necessary to understand a woman’s health and fertility. Days of fertility and infertility are easily identified, giving the method a 96.8 percent effective use rating to avoid pregnancy.

Yes, the observations are standardized and become a helpful diagnostic tool used by a NaPro trained physician. NaPro Technology can diagnose and treat many gynecologic problems such as painful periods, hormone problems, heavy bleeding, ovarian cysts, premenstrual syndrome and others. 

Absolutely! We encourage nursing mothers to chart. Fertility (ovulation) recurrence is often recognized before the first period, making this method very useful for those married couples wishing to space births. 

Yes. You can begin charting as soon as you discontinue using birth control pills.

Contact a FertilityCare practitioner. There are OSF FertilityCare Centers located in Peoria, Bloomington, Ottawa, Galesburg and Rockford. Contact one of our offices and speak with one of our practitioners or make an appointment to get started. Charting can begin after the first session.