Travis McCoy

Travis McCoy has given me hope despite my 9 miscarriages. He is a compassionate doctor. My experience has been great. He always explains things to me in an understanding manner. He makes sure that all of my questions are answered. My husband and I always feel satisfied with our visits.

I took femara for two cycles along with visits to have ultrasounds done to see the progress of my ovaries. If I had mature follicles I would then receive a trigger shit to make me ovulate. I did not conceive during this time.

I haven’t had any major costs at this point.

My doctor prefers to transfer one embryo versus two, due to multiple babies and making me high risk.

He is compassionate and explained every procedure and step in detail. He wanted to ensure that everything could go according to plan as closely as possible. He is a caring doctor.I would recommend him to anyone.

Dr. McCoy will do everything in his power to ensure you have a successful outcome.

I vaguely recall ultrasounds, bloodwork and test to ensure proper timing of transfer.

15,000

I only had one embryo to transfer.

Absolutely love the care I was given by Dr McCoy would recommend him to anyone. He cares for all his patients and his knowledge is great. He always makes me feel important and loves seeing the children when I bring them to visit

You will leave feeling like all your questions are answered and feel like family

Frozen cycle

It was all out of pocket for us. They did provide self pay discounts

We did multiple transfer because of age

I am 39 and started seeing Dr McCoy in 2020 for our fertility consultant after ttc for more than 1 year. After consultation and some test done, we started with time intercourse treatment but never successful. later during ultrasound he found that i need to have a procedure to remove my uterine fibroids as it might be a problem if i happen to conceive. During the procedure he found i have endometriosis issues as well. He has a very tight schedule. I will still be able to see him even after end day. He explained to me details on my situation, options i have and never give up on me.

Trust your doctor

Dr McCoy is a brilliant, caring, pleasant physician that truly makes couples feel at ease on their infertility journey. Great personality with big smiles! I would recommend him to all of my friends who are facing infertility issues. We Love him!

Don’t be afraid to ask questions.... Unlike most doctors, Dr McCoy will take as much time as needed to help you understand your unique set of challenges.

Dr. McCoy is a very neutral doctor and my husband and I really appreciated that because you don’t want a doctor who’s short on his words and cold. Specially when dealing with a such an emotional situation. I felt safe with Dr.McCoy and we couldn’t ask him for more. He was very professional and transparent. He did a great job! I became pregnant on the first transfer but unfortunately had a miscarriage.

There is ALOT of information to be learned. If you didn’t catch something, ask questions. He will happily answer them for you. You can trust Dr.McCoy and his team.

We were told do a frozen transfer in order to give my body some time to come off the hormones. It made complicated sense.

At first we were somewhat skeptical about this strategy but it made sense and after having a miscarriage it made even more sense. We’re glad that only one embryo was used.

Very nice . Show compassion and very knowledgeable in the field male infertility .Did an excellent job in explaining procedures. When we left we know what we could expect. We would have like to had more details on continuing treats .

Ask lots of questions. He will go out of his way to help you.

First he suggested we try IUI . Then if that didn’t work IVF. My husband was to continue prescribe medication.

Our situation was different we were try to use VA plan . We ran into issues with that.

He was open to multiple embryo transfers. Not all embryos will make it.

He was very knowledgeable about the male infertility issues. He was my 3rd opinion and I left feeling more understanding on what’s going on. I was very pleased with consultation and analysis and would want no other than him to do the procedure.

He’s definitely the one you want to go to with the men issues. That’s how I found him and he owned up to that

IVF would be my only treatment

The cost would be 12,000-20,000

Dr mc coy always sees me when i need to see him. He is always on time and always take as much time as i need to understand what is happening and what will happen next i always leave with clear instructions and pleant of information

He is very thorough with his explanations. I was worried at the first visit with him that I would not like him because he told me immediately that he thought I had endometriosis without ever meeting me before. After breaking down in front of him, he was very caring and made sure that we did what I thought was best for myself. He was willing to let me take the reigns on my treatment plans.

Trust him! He will do all that he can for you!

My first cycles were timed intercourse. I was started on Femara 2.5 mg twice a day during day 3-8 of my menstrual cycle. On day 12, I would go in for a scan and use Ovidrel injections to make myself ovulate when he told me to. Then, I would have sex the next 3 days and wait for my period or a positive pregnancy test. We did this for over 9 months with no success. Our next stop was an IUI. I did the same procedure as the timed intercourse, except on the day I was supposed to ovulate, I went into the office and was inseminated. After we found out that the IUI did not work, we went straight into IVF. During my egg retrieval, they were able to take 14 eggs. Of those, 10 were inseminated. 1 day later, they called and said that 6 were developing and were officially "embryos". 4 days later, they called to say that only 1 egg was left and developing. They were able to freeze that embryo and prepare me for transfer. When Dr. McCoy found out that I only had 1 embryo, he said we needed to do a "mock" transfer to get a biopsy and test my uterine lining. The biopsy was extremely painful and I was worried that the transfer was going to be this bad. We then prepared for transfer and everything went great. I took a pregnancy test 5 days post transfer and it was slightly positive. When I went for blood work, I was feeling positive. They later called me and said that my test was negative. We have been on a break from trying for the last 2 months due to emotional wellbeing for myself.

Luckily, insurance was able to cover some of my care, however, I had to first meet my deductible. I had surgery in 2019 to remove my endometriosis then treatments and IVF piled up the costs. IVF was extremely expensive for us and it was heartbreaking to find out that all of our money was spent and nothing came from it. We have not been able to do IVF again due to the financial hardships. I am a nurse and have been cut back on hours due to the Covid-19 and my husband is an elementary school teacher.

We only had 1 egg to transfer anyway.

We are very early on in treatment, but so far Dr. McCoy has been helpful and has explained the process well. We saw another Dr for one visit who we felt had a harsh manner, and caused us lots of distress. There is a way to deliver sensitive and potentially upsetting information and Dr. McCoy seems very good at this.

Come prepared with questions.

We have not undergone much treatment so cannot say yet

The costs were pretty extensive. The diagnostic testing alone has ended up costing $1,000s. I will say I wish we had known that more clearly up front. I definitely realize how necessary it all is, but would have liked a better idea that, for example, the genetic testing would be several thousand each.

He had a very strong preference for eSET and basically said that was our only option. After researching it seems that is the consensus in the medical community at this point for our case, however it would be interesting to discuss cases were multiple transfers are done as I know it still occurs.

Dr. McCoy took the time to explain what options we had, considering my fiance had a vasectomy 8 years ago. The doctor made sure to let us know it may be difficult on my fiance, and how to approach the treatment if he just couldn't handle it, as well as what we could be doing in the meantime. I'm not sure how long he's been doing this, but that he understands these things makes me feel as though he's got experience with all kinds of situations, and that makes me more comfortable under his care.

If you're just starting the process, and already know or have been told that there's issues with the male partner, Dr. McCoy will take the time to explain what P.R.E.G. can do for you. You'll leave the office feeling less nervous and more informed, especially if you come prepared with questions.

Dr. McCoy suggested that my fiance come off of his prescribed Testosterone and start taking HCG injections. He explained the possible effects, and that it might prove to be really difficult. Because we weren't planning on starting to conceive until later this year (2020), he suggested we take it slow - as to make it easier on my fiance - and test how he took to it. Then, in the meantime, Dr. McCoy offered that we could go ahead and take eggs and freeze them if I was interested, because we didn't know exactly when the two of us would start the process. My fiance is currently fighting with his insurance on getting the HCG covered, so we're still not sure how it'll affect him, and we opted not to freeze eggs yet, due to cost and not knowing what my fiance will go through changing prescriptions.

This isn't something I'm particularly familiar with; we may have discussed it, but I don't remember the terms. I do know that, because my fiance and I want only one child and for it to be a girl, Dr. McCoy went over the fact that this was an option. He covered that they would take multiple eggs and screen them to find what we were looking for.

Dr. McCoy is very honest and told us, we have options you may not like them or agree but we have them. I liked his approach because my past doctors told me to remove my ovaries and that was all the could do. Dr. McCoy was able to provide me with another alternative. We will continue to work with him and PREG in the future.

See him with an open mind, listen, and ask questions. Going through IVF is hard from start to finish, and it doesn't get any easier. Dr.McCoy has the same goal in mind but sometimes the plans aren't the same, but he is the expert.

Right now, my husband is on Clomid since 2017. I had endometriosis removal surgery Oct. 2017. After the surgery Dr. McCoy found that our chances were better with donor embryos. We don't have insurance or the funds to afford regular IVF.

IVF treatments are expensive and we have not be able to figure out how we will be able to afford it. We don't have the best insurance coverage, but my husband has diagnostic coverage, I have nothing. I've paid out of pockets so far $4,000 after my surgery.

Travis McCoy has a passion for what he does. He is super knowledgeable about all procedures and bumps you might face throughout the journey. He is super compassionate about all his patients and always seems to have ample time for me. I never seemed rushed to get out and he took the very best care of me and my needs.

He will answer any question you may have for him, truthfully and with compassion. Don’t be afraid to ask!

Dr. McCoy spoke with us about using IVF with sperm retrieval from day 1, due to my husband’s vasectomy. We had tried to reverse the vasectomy with no success. He allowed Kenny to choose when he would like the sperm retrieval done, with what worked best in his schedule and we would freeze the sperm until time for transfer. My egg retrieval was successful, with a decent number of eggs obtained. However, the number of embryos that made it to the stage they would like for transfer, was not as successful as we had hoped for. With Dr. McCoy’s suggestion we transferred the two embryos that were at the stage that would like to see, and got a successful pregnancy on one baby with that transfer. Unfortunately, our little girl was born with a genetic defect causing her lungs to not properly function. Emma Grace came 6 weeks premature and lived 22 days in the NICU at Mission Hospital in Asheville. She lost her fight after 22 days and was laid to rest on March 9, 2018. While discussing our next invitro round with Dr. McCoy, he would like to the sperm retrieval and egg retrieval simultaneously this time in hopes of producing more successful embryos.

I did get a small fee reduction due to my profession as a teacher. I would say the fees altogether were somewhere around $15,000 for the sperm retrieval, IVF and medications.

Dr. McCoy had actually mentioned all along that we would do an eSET if all went well. However, because we only had two embryos reach a good stage, I appreciated that he chose to transfer them both in for a better chance of success!

My doctor was very kind and tried to communicate very well to me what he thought was going on during my time spent as his patient. My only quams were that I wish he had better communicated to me that I had a low ovarian reserve in the beginning. It was first mentioned to me in 2018 in January and apparently he had known for a while. I feel that we would have tried to do IVF sooner had we known that. I also wish that I could have seen him for everything. It was hard being bounced around between nurses and doctors during my IvF cycle.

He is a kind and great doctor, but ask lots of questions! Dont let him leave the room until you 100% know what is going on!

We used letrozole (spelling?) for several rounds. I always produced eggs, just not as many as I could have been. Wgen I began my treatment I had already had two miscarriages on my own but those two pregnancies had been over a span of four years. He suspected I had an issue with my eggs. He also dida hystroscopy and removed fetel tissue left behind from my last obgyn and miscarriage which caused scar tissue. After my last letrozole attempt I took a break and actually concieved on my own but miscarried identical twin boys. After trying on my own for six months after that I went back to Dr. McCoy and did a few more cycles of letrozole before doing IVF. He had suggested IVF befpre, but my husband and I put it off until we could get the loan to do it.

I had an 85$ co pay for every visit Afte rinsurance, my hysteroscopy costed roughly $4,000. My insurance did pay for letrozole rounds so it only costed around $5.per round. My ivf round, including medicine was $17,000.

He is extremely trustworthy and thorough and seems to have an excellent grasp on his field of medicine. He teaches me so much and answers all of my questions to my satisfaction. I cannot blame him for my cycles not working. He is very willing to think and work outside the box to give me the best chance of having a biological child possible.

He is the go to RE at PREG for male factor infertility.

Usually did antagonist protocols but did a micro dose lupron flare the last IVF. Very willing to try different protocols if they may be better.

IUI with donor sperm was about $550 plus the cost of sperm and medications. IVF runs about $8000-$10,000 depending on all the elements.

He is great at guiding the patient to a good choice of embryos to try per transfer.

Dr.McCoy was straightforward and to the point. He did not codel the situation and he was very informative in a manner that I could understand. He recognizes that all people are not the same. My issue may look similar but the cause may be different. He gave me hope. He did not look at my age and my weight and tell me it is impossible. He wrote out a plan, told me my responsibilities and made it a team effort. I felt like he wanted me to have a child as much as I want to have a child. And no matter how discouraged I feel, I still know he is and will continue to do his very best. Even though he gave me hope, it was not false hope. Dr. McCoy shared the risk with me and what I would need to do to offset some of those risks. But he never made me feel like we were on an impossible journey. He is very proactive and personable. I have been other places and he is the only one who I felt I could be as candid as I need to be. He has practiced patience with a few personal setbacks that I have had. And even after I had to stop treatment for a moment, when I returned, he was still "Full Steam Ahead" with my treatment.

Expect to know exactly what they will do and what you need to be doing. They will not leave you in the dark.

You essentially are able to tell a lot just by the way you have been treated from your first consultation at a clinic. We found that true when spending time with Dr. McCoy. He always makes us feel like your time matters to him. There are never any time constraints or feelings that you are an inconvenience to him. He is a provider who is welcoming to your questions and answers them in great detail. Dr. McCoy always gives us an undeniable feeling of hope and dedication. He truly looks out for the best interest of the patient. When first coming to him we were not under the complete understanding of how severe my endometriosis was and how it played such a part in our infertility journey. Dr. McCoy gave us several different treatment options and through shared decision making he helped guide us to what was the most urgent matter.

Dr. McCoy is very informative he provides you with all the relevant information, for you to select the medical intervention that is right for you. If you have questions ask him. He is a great patient educator.

We are currently in the beginning stages. We have had our initial consultation and a follow-up. Our next step is surgery to remove endometriosis prior to IVF treatment.

At PREG, they offer a free second opinion to patients who have saw another provider and wanted additional information about treatment options available. We were able to use this great feature. They have a financial adviser who is able to sit down with you and go over each cost associated with visits and treatments. They are able to run your insurance and provide you with the amount of coverage you have. This was extremely helpful! And if you are eligible they have different refund programs available as well.

I chose Dr. McCoy because at this point we concluded that my husband was the reason we were not becoming pregnant. He did a Facebook live session discussing male infertility, just from watching this session and seeing how knowledgeable I knew I wanted to see him. We have only met with him one time as we are just beginning our journey, but before our appointment, he actually read our medical records! He was very honest about the fact that IVF may be our only option to conceive but did not make us feel that he was trying to "sell" us IVF. He answered all of my questions and provided us with detailed information and together we created an "action plan" to help us get pregnant.

Send all information regarding your and your partner's fertility before your visit.

Currently, we are very early in our treatment. Upon reviewing my husband's prior labs and semen analysis, he felt that there was a hormone issue that could be the leading cause of my husband's low sperm count and possibly issues with his vasectomy reversal, but we needed to start with the production of sperm. Based on recent lab work completed by our primary care provider he gave my husband a prescription for thyroid medicine and then sent us for labs. I was fortunate that my labs were fine but unfortunately, my husbands were not as he is making too much estrogen and not enough testosterone. Dr. McCoy started my husband on medication to suppress his estrogen and told us to come back in one month for additional labs. Fortunately, my husband's hormones are headed in the right direction but are not at an average level yet. He adjusted his medication and he will go back in November for additional lab work and a semen analysis to verify his body is producing sperm.

Currently, we have not paid anything out of pocket due to reaching our cap out of pocket with insurance, but our insurance only covers diagnostic testing and a few other items. It has been explained that it is $12,000 per IVF cycle plus medication.

We have not discussed this process.

Dr. McCoy was patient, kind and informative. When we started I was unsure if IVF was the right route for us but he took time to meet with us and go thru everything and had a very positive outlook. He was always reachable if I had questions. It's a very emotional situation and he understood that and was patient and kind every time we saw him.

Ask every question you can think of, he will answer it. He will take the time to make you feel comfortable.

Dr. McCoy laid out a plan for treatment, I don't recall the specifics now but go in knowing that it is not set in stone. I wanted a schedule so I could plan around that but your body doesn't work that way. Go in knowing that you will have to go with the flow. My eggs weren't growing as quick as they would've liked and I think I had to do an extra week or hormones before retrieval. I remember Dr. McCoy being concerned that we might only get 10 viable eggs and after the retrieval I had 21! Just be patient and know that Dr. McCoy knows what he is doing and trust that he will help you every way he can.

Much higher than anticipated. Insurance didn't cover anything. Price for the IVF cycle was $11,000 plus labs and drugs. We ended up spending $26,000 total. More than I even thought once I added everything up.

My husband and I had agreed that we would do up to 2 embryos but when Dr. McCoy saw the embryos he came to us and said our embryos were textbook good and only wanted to transfer one. We were nervous because we so badly wanted it to work but he was right, that one was our perfect little boy!

Dr.McCoy discussed our history with us in a way that was easily understandable. He listened closely to our answers, with great follow up questions that allowed him to form a complete understanding of our situation. He offered different courses of treatment, and was very willing to work with us.

Get a second opinion! Dr. McCoy was our second opinion, and even though we haven't conceived (yet!) I do have hope. He will work with you within your comfort zone and financial means.

I've been pregnant three times, and miscarried twice, so we know that I can have a successful pregnancy. We had already spent over $20,000 when we came to Dr. McCoy for a second opinion. He advised using different, less expensive, medications to achieve the same result. He was right! I'm producing quality eggs in good frequency for so much less than we were paying with a more expensive options. It's just a numbers game from here - I believe we will get pregnant!

The 2nd opinion was totally free! Dr. McCoy spent about an hour with us on our first consultation, getting to know us and our history. The treatment at PREG is about 1/2 the cost of the other fertility clinic we used.

Dr. McCoy can be direct at times but not in a bad way. He made sure we understood the potential outcomes of all treatments and always left us feeling hopeful for the next treatment. If there is anything to improve on, it’s maybe being more available during our visits since we didn’t see him every time. However, we didn’t need to see him every time so that’s not something we hold against him. He’s a great doctor to have during this process.

Be ready with questions because he’ll be able to answer anything you ask.

He prescribed clomid to me (husband) to improve my sperm count with great success. I went from less than 1 or 2 million sperm to close to 200 million. He also prescribed and adjusted medication as needed to my wife to help her regulate her cycle and to ovulate.

IUI was $475. Semen analysis was about $100.

My experience as a patient has been excellent in regards to Dr. McCoy. With upsetting news he has been matter of fact, which is what I personally need from my doctor. I always know what my options are and what, exactly, is involved with each option.

If you need to be coddled as a patient you may want to look elsewhere. Dr. McCoy is excellent but there isn't a lot of handholding.

At first we didn't really know what was wrong so we tried Letrozole with a trigger shot for a few cycles. It seemed like I was producing follicles but there was no resulting pregnancy. We moved on and did a few more tests to find that I have low AMH. Our options became to continue the Letrozole with trigger, IVF with my own eggs, or IVF with donor eggs. We haven't started IVF yet so I can't really say what the results are.

My insurance paid a portion of each visit so I can't really give an idea of what care looks like without insurance. I can say that one IVF cycle is going to cost around $6500 out of pocket with insurance paying 80% and not including medications.

Dr. McCoy is strongly against transferring more than one embryo for me.

I can’t say enough about Dr. McCoy. He is a God send. Another doctor that I had seen in Spartanburg recommended me having a hysterectomy after I was hospitalized for fibroids and an enlarged uterus. Because I have never had children in the past so this was not an option for me but my doctor didn’t really refer me to any specialist or point me in the direction of different options for me. So luckily, a friend had mentioned that she used PREG and she was able to conceive with IVF. I made an appointment with them and started my journey to learning other options. After tests and MRI I was told that I had many many fibroids and these needed to be removed before any other treatment could be done for me. I met with Dr. McCoy and he discussed options of removing these fibroids. My main concern was that I wanted to preserve my uterus as much as possible to be able to possibly carry to term with the help of IVF. Any option other than a hysterectomy was something I needed to hear. I also was very fearful that my surgery needed to be done the old fashion way to remove them (surgically cutting and removing them leaving a scare several inches long) versus robotic surgery which was minimal scaring with no hospital stay and shorter down time. Dr. McCoy assured me that he was able to remove my many fibroids robotically and that there should be no complications. He made it sound like it would be a walk in the park which it pretty much was. Dr McCoy ended up removing 31 fibroids from my uterus, yes THIRTY ONE!!!! Later, he told me that my uterus would be normal again after the healing process which was not long, and that I would be able to carry my own child. It was truly amazing to hear this news needless to say. It was recommended that I try to conceive without IVF for a few months and if I was not able to conceive then I would return for the IVF process. To date I have not been able to get pregnant on my own which I knew would most likely be the case. I plan on returning this fall/winter to start IVF with PREG. Without the carrying staff and Dr. McCoy at PREG I would have most likely had a hysterectomy and would have never had the opportunity to have and carry my own baby. I cannot thank them enough!!!

Trust him fully. I was so worried but after speaking with him many times via telephone and office visits I knew he was my only hope.

I will be returning for IVF treatment

He was honest with us from the beginning and was very helpful along the way. He never gave us false hope but he made sure he did all he could do. He explained things in a manner that we understood and was VERY attentive. He took his time at each doctor's visit espcially once I became pregnant.

Dont be afraid to ask as many questions as you need to because he will definitely answer them.

We started out with me taking letrazole at the medium dosage and when that didn't produce the results we wanted he put me on the highest dosage. I had to inject the trigger shot each month. He also put my husband on clomid due to low sperm mobility and count. We weren't getting a positive test with timed intercourse so we done three IUI's. Dr. Mccoy had high hopes for the last one but it resulted in yet another negative pregnancy test. He told us we could look into IVF because he felt that was going to be our best best. We started IVF fertility drugs and I was put on higher quantities due to my past dosages not being enough with letrazole. After the first round of IVF I became pregnant and we now have a 3month old baby girl.

Our insurance did not cover the IVF expenses but it did cover the doctor appointments and ultrasounds. We had to pay $90 for each trigger shot. IUI cost us $475. The total cost for our IVF was around $17,000. PREG does offer financial options if you meet the requirements.

Dr. Mccoy had a strong preference for single embryo transfer because he said he would rather quantity over quality. Which we agreed because healthy is always better.