# Are You Overpaying for Reproductive Tissue Storage? Generations CryoVault CEO Charlie Boyer on Hidden Costs, Patient Choice, and How He's Disrupting the Industry to Save You Money

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Podcast: [Infertile AF: Infertility and Modern Family Building through ART](https://stenobird.com/podcast/infertile-af-infertility-and-modern-family-building-through-art-206488)
Published: 2026-06-19T16:43:29+00:00
Episode link: https://www.infertileafgroup.com/podcast
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## Resource

On this episode, we're talking about something that affects millions of fertility patients—but that almost nobody talks about until the bill shows up: reproductive tissue storage.If you have embryos, eggs, or sperm in storage, you know the drill. Every year, another invoice arrives. Maybe it's $600. Maybe it's $800. Maybe it's over $1,000. Most people just pay it because they assume that's the cost. But what if it isn't? Ali’s guest today is Charlie Boyer, CEO and Co-Founder of Generations CryoVault, and he's on a mission to shake up an industry that he believes has gotten way too comfortable charging fertility patients more and more for storage. Charlie's background is actually in financial services and cord blood storage, but after taking a closer look at reproductive tissue storage, he started asking some uncomfortable questions: Why are prices so high? Why don't patients know they have options? And why are so many clinics owned by private equity firms without patients even realizing it? In this conversation, Ali and Charlie talk about transparency, private equity, patient choice, and Generation CryoVault’s new Pricing Promise, which aims to dramatically lower the cost of long-term embryo, egg, and sperm storage. They also discuss whoownsyourcare.org, how to find out who actually stores your tissue, and what questions every fertility patient should be asking their clinic. Whether you have embryos in storage right now, you're considering fertility treatment, or you're just curious about where all those fertility dollars are going, this is a fascinating conversation about an often-overlooked part of the family-building journey. For more info, go to https://gencryo.com/ IG: @generationscryovault EPISODE SPONSORS: THE WORK OF ART BOOK SERIES Ali's Children's Book Series…

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