A Network Expansion Focused on Improving the Availability of High Quality Fertility Care

Carrot has officially announced a major expansion for its nationwide network of high-performance clinics and providers.

According to certain reports, this particular expansion arrives on the back of 4,200 new contracts across all 50 states. Alongside that, the company also confirmed that its robust managed fertility clinic network now offers greater flexibility with payments for customers and a more seamless care experience for members.

Talk about the given expansion on a slightly deeper level, it will ensure, for starters, more high-quality clinics in more places across the US. Markedly enough, these clinically vetted facilities join an already robust global network of over 17,000 providers that include fertility, menopause, urology, and third-party assistance for donor eggs and sperm.

Making the new clinics’ stature even stronger would be the fact that Carrot actually determines which clinics are invited to join its network based on quality metrics and factors such as outcomes, credentials, geo-access, fair-market pricing, and patient experience.

“Each year, Carrot makes important investments to strengthen our managed network, elevating and evolving the experience for members, customers, and providers,” said James Wong, Carrot’s Chief Outcomes Officer. “In 2025, we made large investments to build on our strong foundation across three key areas: access, payments, and quality. Together, these changes mean even more access, better member experiences, and outstanding clinical outcomes for Carrot customers.”

Next up, the expansion brings intelligent identification of the highest performing providers. Thanks the company’s fast-growing fertility outcomes dataset, it can further stratify quality of providers within its network to identify the highest-performing clinics. Carrot basically evaluates providers based on categories including elective single-embryo transfer (eSET) rate, clinical pregnancy rate, live birth rate, and pre-term rate. 

Hence, with CarrotMatch’s dynamic, personalized evaluation, members are consistently connected with the best provider for them, something which really goes the distance to improve outcomes, and avoid complications.

Another detail worth a mention relates to the availability of expanded US payments capabilities that effectively simplify the member experience, and at the same time, bestow customers with more options for plan design. 

You see, for customers with existing major medical plans, the Carrot Card now includes cost share capabilities, such as coinsurance and copayments. As for the other cases, Carrot can now receive and pay claims directly to providers, thus eliminating the need for US members to use the Carrot Card or wait for reimbursement.

Among other things, it ought to be acknowledged that the development in question actually builds upon Carrot’s recently announced acquisition of Sprints, a groundbreaking program which directly targets conditions related to metabolic dysfunction. 

The said acquisition, along with Carrot’s new expansion drive, should create one robust mechanism which can tread up a long distance to enable Carrot in the context of delivering hyper-personalized care by connecting members with top-performing clinics. This it can do while simultaneously addressing underlying health factors that affect fertility and pregnancy outcomes.

Founded in 2014, Carrot’s rise up the ranks stems from bringing to the fore industry-leading cost savings for employers, and exceptional experiences for millions of employees. The company’s award-winning proprietary product is presently focused on serving all populations regardless of whether they are looking for preconception care, pregnancy, IVF, male factor infertility, adoption, gestational carrier care, or menopause, 

Carrot’s excellence in what it does can be understood once you consider it is trusted by more than 1,000 of the world’s best multinational employers, health plans and health systems, In case that wasn’t enough, we also need to mention how the the company has, thus far, received national and international recognition for its pioneering work, including Fast Company’s ‘Most Innovative Companies,’ CNBC’s ‘100 Barrier Breaking Startups’ and more. 

Carrot is even regularly featured on media outlets like The Economist, Bloomberg, The Wall Street Journal, ABC, CNBC, and more.

“Maintaining the best-in-class network isn’t just about identifying top performing providers – it’s about ensuring that every member receives the highest quality, evidence-based care at the right time, in the right setting, and with clear financial transparency,” said Dr. Asima Ahmad, Carrot’s Chief Medical Officer. “By guiding members individually, Carrot is continuing to improve results, redce unnecessary and expensive care, and elevate the entire standard of care for fertility.”