Briana Rudick

Dr. Rudick is kind, compassionate, and very smart. On our initial consultation, she took the time to listen carefully to my history, and developed a treatment plan based on my desires as a patient. I was interested in lowest intervention first, and she completely supported that. She did a great job of explaining everything to my husband and I, and helping us to feel informed. I did not see her much during monitoring, but she was responsive via email and typically answered (or had a nurse call me) within 24 hours of any emails. She was always positive when we interacted and always had a good plan for us. When I did become pregnant, her happiness and excitement for us was genuine. She helped me through my first few weeks of pregnancy, and was able to guide me before I switched over to an OB.

Do not expect to see a lot of Dr. Rudick after initial consultation, since monitoring appointments are with any available provider during the time slot you were allotted. This is simply the model of the clinic, which was not something I was aware of in advance. I got used to it after a few visits, but wish I knew to expect different providers all the time.

I underwent two treatment cycles with Dr. Rudick. Cycle 1: 5 days of Clomid starting on CD3, 50mg (lowest dose). Monitoring via vaginal ultrasound starting around CD10 to monitor follicle growth. Trigger shot injection given to myself at home once one follicle was large enough (largest that cycle was 18mm). Provided with directions for timed intercourse after trigger shot. This cycle did not result in pregnancy. Cycle 2: 5 days of Clomid starting on CD3, 50mg (lowest dose). Monitoring via vaginal ultrasound starting around CD10 to monitor follicle growth. Follicles failed to grow by CD14, so I had several additional monitoring ultrasounds through CD17 when the follicle finally grew to 21mm on right side. Trigger shot injection given to myself at home once one follicle was large enough. Provided with directions for timed intercourse after trigger shot. This cycle resulted in pregnancy.

I have a high deductible HSA health insurance plan, and I was seeing Dr. Rudick during the deductible phase of care, so unfortunately for me, all expenses were out of pocket until I hit the deductible. A typical blood draw/ultrasound appointment ranged between $700-$1000 per visit, and sometimes I had these visits 2-3 per week. This added up quickly and was a financial burden for us. We had money saved for this purpose and had planned for the expense, so we were lucky enough to make this work for us. Overall during the deductible phase I spent $2700 out of pocket for 2 cycles of clomid/trigger shot/timed intercourse. Once I hit my deductible, I was only responsible for 20% coinsurance, so each visit was between $70-$100. I became pregnant shortly after hitting the deductible. For me the price was worth it and I knew my insurance was not great going into the process.

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I saw Dr. Rudick for an initial consultation for future egg freezing as well as a full workup. I appreciated my one-on-one consultation with Dr. Rudick for her thoroughness and care in explaining the procedure and rationale to me. I felt that she didn't dilute or in any way gloss over any relevant information, which was important to me.

I'm still learning to navigate the system of this clinic and it might've been helpful to ask the doctor more about that. But our one-on-one interaction was good.

I'm in the beginning stages for egg freezing. Dr. Rudick and I discussed medications in general terms as well as PCOS and my past blood results, and I would like to have heard more specifics, but this is something that I will follow up on. She was thorough and thoughtful in explaining the procedure and rationale.

Still being determined.

Dr. Rudick was absolutely amazing with my husband and I during this whole process! Ever since, I read her online Overview and saw her introduction video on the Columbia OB/GYN website, I knew that Dr. Rudick was the right doctor for me. I appreciated how she showed compassion for her patients and their experiences. I always appreciated how kind Dr. Rudick was, but mainly, she was incredibly knowledgeable and made me feel very confident about her work during my visits and treatments in the clinic. Dr. Rudick always educated both my husband and I during our visits at the facility and guided us during the whole process. Lastly, Dr. Rudick was always accessible for questions and concerns. She was very responsive to my emails, which was much appreciated when I wasn't feeling well or was experiencing symptoms from my treatment. I was very happy, and I am very thankful for Dr. Rudick's work.

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From what I can remember, I did a few tests at the beginning of my visits to ensure I was in the right track, such as checking my hormone levels, a brain MRI, blood work, genetic tests, etc. After these initial tests, I was prescribed to take a small amount of Cabergoline once a week to balance my prolactin levels. My blood work and uterus were screened frequently in order to see my progress. During my first IUI try, I took Clomid, and for the last two IUIs, I took Letrozole which I was able to get pregnant with. On the 3rd IUI, I was able to get pregnant with twins :)

During my visits at the facility, I had two insurance, Aetna and Empire BlueCross BlueShield, and they both covered my IUIs treatments, etc.

Dr Rudick is probably the nicest doctor I've met. She is not fake nice, she is just a genuinely nice person. She is also really smart and has taken her time with us during our one on one meetings. However when I see her for my sono's I don't get to ask her questions. That said, the doctors are super busy and its not so called meeting time. Things haven't really gone our way this time round, by this time round I mean that I have been able to conceive through this clinic once before. Our insurance was not great and it took forever for us to get our diagnostic stuff taken care of, it was also very confusing, we changed our insurance but apparently didn't tell billing in time, just told the front desk. One would think front desk would tell billing but that is not the case. This delayed our start date for treatment. We did way too many IUIs, couple of which we did because we were under the impression that the IVF lab was closed for the whole of Jan. And then we realized that we could have still kicked off a IVF cycle since the labs do open by the second half of the month. A lot of this information was hazy and unclear. I feel we've lost a lot of time because of a lot of factors, none of which are directly related to Dr Rudick.

She is compassionate and relatable. However, I did feel a bit lost, like why am I doing what I am doing. What is the reason, why 1,2, or 3 IUI's, why not something else. Is this related to my age, something else? I feel that if I asked questions I would get an answer but if I didn't I wouldn't really know why I was doing the treatments I was. A reason for this could also be because we have unexplained infertility and there are routine treatments for that.

We are paying out of pocket for IVF and medication. All of IUI procedures and costs were covered. They don't have a payments plan for IVF by the way. I thought I read a review saying that they did.

Dr Rudick explains everything very plainly and honestly. The longer I worked with her the more I liked her. She continues to have an upbeat outlook even though things did not always go the way we wanted them to, but not so much as to be Pollyanna-ish or falsely optimistic. She is results oriented and always forward moving - don’t expect her to linger on why something didn’t work or to have an incredibly emotional conversation about your disappointment. When a result is less than perfect, she’s looking at what to do to optimize that result, or change course to something better/more effective. I always felt like she took my questions very seriously and answered them with thought and care, either in person, on the phone, or via email.

When I first met Dr Rudick, I wasn’t 100% sure about her. I felt like she came off as slightly condescending. Working with her longer though I realized that it wasn’t really her talking down to us - getting started with fertility treatments, there is an incredible deluge of information thrown at you. Even if you feel like you’ve done your research and have an idea of how everything works, actually going to the clinic for your consult can be overwhelming. A year later, I am pregnant and love Dr Rudick’s frank and honest approach of laying out all of the information without sugar coating.

I did four unsuccessful IUI cycles. We wanted to start with the least invasive procedures first, especially since I was working a very high stress job which I didn’t want to combine with IVF. The first two were with Clomid, which I HATED. The second IUI never even came to fruition, as the Clomid gave me a cyst that prevented doing the actual IUI. We did the next two with no drugs, despite the fact that she warned us of a very low (1 - 2%) success rate. This was our choice & she was supportive of it. After my job ended, we did two rounds of IVF stimulation for frozen transfers. The first one egg retrieval was a disaster - no one’s fault, but I suffered internal bleeding and ended up in the hospital for three days and needing a blood transfusion. Internal bleeding is an uncommon side effect, but known risk of egg retrieval listed on the paperwork that you sign before your surgery. Dr Rudick and the other staff at Columbia were extremely helpful and caring at this time - talking on the phone to my husband and my doctors at the hospital I ended up with to explain and follow up for three days. They were constantly checking in with me to see how I was doing. After all of that, we only ended up getting one PGS tested normal embryo. Dr Rudick suggested possibly doing another cycle to get more embryos (especially since we hope for another child in the future), as well as specific uterine lining tests if we wanted to move forward with the single good embryo. We did another round of stimulation, which a slightly different medicine protocol. This one was a breeze & yielded four PGS normal embryos, two of which were seven-day embryos. Dr Rudick was very flexible with timing and encouraged me to do the transfer once another work project had been completed so that I could take it easy surrounding the transfer. (My work is very intense with long hours & plenty of stress). It worked & I am currently 8 weeks pregnant! I’m on a progesterone suppository until 10 weeks to further support the pregnancy. We’ve been in for sonograms every weeks for the past three weeks, and are now moving on to a regular midwife practice.

They sometimes made specific appointments, but you could also walk in between 7 and 9:30 (if I recall correctly). The mornings were often very busy, a couple of times were standing room only, but I don’t think I ever waited more than twenty minutes for monitoring, especially if I had an appointment.

IUI was completely covered by many insurance, IVF was out of pocket. All in all for two rounds of stimulation and one transfer, it came out to approximately $50,000.

Columbia has a policy of transferring only one embryo at a time, which was what I wanted anyway.

Dr.Rudick was welcoming which made me more comfortable since I had a bad experience from my first fertility doctor. She also asked me what I will like to do as far as treatment. She gave me all my options and broke them down to me. She also got a chance to talk with my husband who’s a trans man. She gave us insight on fertility in the LGBTQ community. She’s been nothing but amazing so far.

Don’t be afraid to ask questions. Dr. Rudick will communicate very well with you. She will even email you if to make sure you and her on the same page.

I haven’t gotten a chance to have a cycle with her yet. She ordered an SHG test which discovered I had Fibroids so I had to undergo two surgeries to remove them. I’m currently recovering now from the 2nd one.

So far I haven’t gotten any fertility treatments because of the surgeries. But I was told the cost if my insurance don’t approve me for IVF.

Dr. Rudick impressed me early on as being both intelligent and attentive. She is very thorough and very quick to get what’s on my mind. She made me feel positive and gave me confidence. I also appreciate her attention to detail and willingness to discuss matters openly.

Open your mind, be positive and don't hold anything back.

See previous comment. She is direct, stays neutral, is forthcoming, fresh, progressive, supportive, takes her time and talks to you, feels like a friend, routes for you. She recommend that I deliver ya NYC Langone due to my location and because they are an educational hospital

Don’t expect a dr thatsugar coats the facts. She gets to the point but with a softness because she is compassionate. She has children and with that comes empathy for the desire to want a baby. She made me feel comfortable, laugh, and stay excited

My insurance covered up to 30k in fertirky treatments and 10k per lifetime if IVF meds . My out of pocket for 8 IUIs and 1 IVF was about $13k. I did use donor Sperm so a portion of that was for receiving storage and thawing

I had 9 eggs retrieved 7 survived by day 5 only one healthy embryo was viable

Dr. Rudick was simply not a good doctor and she was terrible at explaining issues. After the first round of bloodtests I had, she left me a voice mail telling me it would be hard for me to get pregnant. She later denied saying that on the message, and said I had not understood her, but I listened to the message several times and it is what she said. It may not have been what she meant, but that does not help on a voice mail, especially when you cannot reach her easily with follow up questions. Second, her treatment was not good. When I went to another doctor for a second opinion, I found out she had missed several things in my chart. The second doctor picked up on several results from Ruduck's chart and made changes in my treatment, which got results. Dr. Rudick had the same information but didn't use it. Dr. Rudick was was pregnant when I saw her but she never said anything. It wasn't obvions when I started seeing her but she walked into one appointment clearly showing and I was floored. I felt it was very insensitive of her not to say anything about her pregnancy earlier (or at all). When I asked her when she was due she refused to tell me.

Go elsewhere.

I don't remember this information well enough.

It was covered by insurance for us.

Since I had visited two previous doctors I was a little discouraged when I went in for the initial consultation with Dr. Rudick but once we sat down and I explained all my past treatments to her everything changed. Dr. Rudick showed she cared, she explained every step to take and gave me back my hopes.

Be ready to answer a lot of questions Dr. Rudick makes sure she knows every detail before moving on.

I am still in treatment with DR. Rudick. So far we have covered the initial consultation, had all my labs done along with my husbands she tested us for Zoila since we traveled to the Caribbean also genetic testing along with a semen analysis for my husband and complete blood test for myself also an HSG and SHG. Currently waiting for some results to arrive in order to move on to the next step.

The cost is not yet established since we are waiting for all my labs to arrive in order to take the next step.

Dr. Rudick is responsive, patient, and caring while maintaining strong boundaries. She is extremely knowledgeable, and makes sure to explain very complicated medical treatments and issues before you even ask her to.

Contact her and her nurse Julissa via email - they are both very responsive.

I had 5 IUIs - one unmedicated and four medicated. The first IUI was unmedicated only because we were out of town during the monitoring period. The next three IUIs were recommended as they are much less intrusive than IVF and can have positive outcomes in couples diagnosed with unexplained infertility. The last IUI was required by my insurance company prior to approval for IVF, and happily we became pregnant.

I used insurance and generally had a copay of $20 to see the doctor - I don't believe I had any charge for bloodwork/ultrasounds

I am very happy with her. She has been very informative and has been great to adapt my cycle when we needed to. I feel very confident that she will be the one to help me get pregnant. I'm very glad she is my doctor. I feel comfortable with her.

Be open about your situation, through out my treatment since she knows my specific situation she has been careful about certain things that she knows I am worried about. She has tailored my treatment because of this situation.

Due to my specific issues we have had to undergo, IVF early on instead of IUI, she has also required ICSI because there are concerns about the sperm. During my IVF cycle my progesterone spiked early and instead of risking losing the embryos she changed my IVF cycle from a fresh cycle to a freeze all. Her rational was that my body could potentially be out of sync and if we attempted to put one of my two embryos in we run a high risk of it not taking. So we froze all my embryos. I have under went one FET that did not work out and I will be undergoing a second FET soon.

My IVF cycle was $14,200 with anesthetist and ICSI all self pay. My insurance does not cover IVF. My FET was $4,250.

With me and my situation we both agreed that a eSET was appropriate.

Dr. Rudick is a good doctor. I felt completely comfortable with her. She was very thorough with explaining The procedure, and answered any questions that I had. She can be very direct at times, but I felt that she just wanted to make sure that we were on the same page with everything. I would definitely go back to her when the time is right.

She is a very thorough doctor.

Follistim which produced 19 eggs, and only 2 good embryos.

The doctor transferred two embryos in, to give me the best chance at having one successful pregnancy.

My only hesitation to give a 10 out of 10 is I'd prefer more information. It sometimes felt that Dr. Rudick was making the decision she thought was best without explaining why. I also would have liked more analysis and intervention sooner when things were not working. If transfers are not resulting in pregnancy, there is a bigger issue at play than just a same sex couple.

She really truly cares but you need to be a strong advocate for yourself.

On my old insurance, almost everything was out of pocket. I paid about $500 per IUI and $10k for IVF.

Dr. Rudick will do a multiple embryo transfer only if you acknowledge you understand the risks. She has a strong preference for single transfers.

She is positive, upbeat and honest. I had great results from my retrieval (22 eggs) and I believe it had to do with how she handled my care. Totally stress free. Monitoring appointments can be stressful, but I always looked forward to seeing her. When we saw the baby's heartbeat for the first time, I could tell she was just as excited as we were. She was like part of our family and very much a part of our journey.

Dr. Rudick is great if you are looking for a warm, friendly and communicative doctor. She gets to know you as a person and you never feel like a number.

Was like family. Trusted her with everything. She was very understanding of our situation. She didn’t make my wife and I feel uncomfortable. We used known donor sperm and she was very compassionate. She told us risks and concerns and truly was sensitive when the not so good happened. Ultimately in 2017 we had our miracle baby

She truly understands all aspects of IVF

We started with IUI. Had miscarriage in my second one. Then we tried again for 8 more tries. Then we went to IVF. Second IVF worked

After all days and dine appx 50,000

We saw several REs for the infertility diagnosis and liked Dr. Rudick the best by far. We are now seeking a 2nd opinion on treatment. If we hadn't liked her so much, we might have sought a 2nd opinion earlier. It's hard to be critical of doctor for being too nice.

Briana is very knowledgeable and kind. She completely understands my nervousness and guides me through absolutely everything. I am extremely nervous every time I go for a visit. She relaxes me before beginning any procedure.

The best

She always made us feel welcome and comfortable while explaining the procedures that lay ahead of us. The only drawback was the amount of time it takes to get an appointment, she has a waiting list of 1-2 months for an appointment.

Dr. Rudick was everything I wished a doctor to be: very professional and prepared, caring and compassionate; she always explained what was going on and supported me when I needed it. She was always very open in terms of the benefits and risks of every passage we were going through, and kept being positive during the difficult times. She is simply an amazing doctor!

Trust her, completely, even when you think that you would do things differently!