CDC's 2021 state data brief (published December 2023) lists 4 Oklahoma clinics reporting data. Women living in Oklahoma had 1,322 ART procedures that year, 1,470 per million women aged 15 to 49, less than half the U.S. rate of 3,250, and 1.0% of babies born to Oklahoma residents were conceived with ART (U.S.: 2.3%).
The figures cover procedures for women living in Oklahoma, wherever they were treated, and leave out cycles in which eggs or embryos were only banked.
| CDC measure, 2021 | Oklahoma |
|---|---|
| Clinics in Oklahoma reporting to CDC | 4 |
| ART procedures for women living in Oklahoma | 1,322 |
| Procedures per 1 million women aged 15 to 49 (U.S.: 3,250) | 1,470 |
| Embryo-transfer procedures among them | 1,153 |
| Live-birth deliveries from these procedures | 496 |
| Live-born infants from these procedures | 543 |
| Babies born in 2021 to Oklahoma residents conceived with ART | 471 of 48,410 (1.0%; U.S.: 2.3%) |
Counted by the patient's state of residence; excludes cycles in which eggs or embryos were only banked. Source: CDC, State-Specific ART Surveillance, 2021 Data Brief (December 2023).
Oklahoma's use of ART is low compared with the country: 1,470 procedures per million women of reproductive age against 3,250 nationally, and ART babies at 1.0% of births against 2.3%. The data brief reports how many procedures took place, not the reasons behind the gap.
Because CDC counts by residence, an Oklahoma woman treated in another state still appears in these numbers. The 4 clinics are the ones that reported for 2021; nationally, 453 of the 501 clinics that performed ART did.
On cost, Oklahoma's only fertility insurance mandate is Corinne's Law (SB 1334, in effect January 1, 2025), which covers egg or sperm retrieval before treatment that may cause infertility. It does not require plans to cover IVF. Ask your insurer or HR what your plan includes, and ask each clinic for its own results for women your age, because statewide figures cannot tell you that.
With a small number of clinics, it helps to know when to look further. Map to the Positive says a second opinion is not a sign of distrust, especially when:
How to do it: ask for copies of all your test results and reports, book with another specialist, present the case neutrally without leading with the previous diagnosis, and see what approach they propose from scratch.
Second opinions, and when to change doctors, are part of Chapter 31 of Map to the Positive, in Station IV. The same station explains when to see a specialist, the treatment ladder from least to most invasive, and what happens in each phase of IVF.
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References: State-Specific Assisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance, United States: 2021 Data Brief (CDC, with ASRM, SART and RESOLVE) (2023-12) · State-Specific ART Surveillance (CDC) (2024-10-09) · New laws take effect across Oklahoma in 2025 (KSWO) (2025-01-01) · SB 1334 (2024) (Metriarch Oklahoma) (2024-09-20)