BRICK XRAY LLC — An Honest Editorial Review

Patients working through the map of fertility clinics in New Jersey regularly land on adjacent practices that are not, strictly speaking, fertility clinics at all — imaging centers, OB/GYN groups, midwifery practices, and general radiology offices that each do one narrow thing well. Brick XRAY LLC, on Route 88 in Brick Township, Ocean County, is one of those adjacent practices. It is a diagnostic radiology and mammography center credentialed under its own NPI (1770735177), active in the federal registry since October 2008, and — based on its unusually deep public review record of 2,748 Google ratings at a 4.8 average — one of the higher-volume community imaging centers on the Jersey shore.

That review volume alone is the reason we felt this editorial was necessary. A practice with nearly three thousand public ratings will out-rank a lot of genuine fertility clinics in local search, and patients clicking through from fertility-adjacent queries deserve a clean, up-front disclosure: Brick XRAY LLC is an imaging center, not a fertility clinic. It does not prescribe, it does not stimulate, it does not transfer, and it does not bank embryos or gametes. What it does offer is the kind of diagnostic imaging — mammography, ultrasound, plain-film X-ray, and (potentially) fluoroscopy-based hysterosalpingogram — that sometimes sits inside a fertility workup pathway ordered by someone else.

What This Practice Actually Is

Brick XRAY LLC is federally credentialed under CMS taxonomy 261QR0206X — Clinic/Center — Radiology, Mammography. The clinical location and mailing address is:

• 1608 Route 88 West, Suite 102, Brick, NJ 08724
• Phone: (732) 349-8454 (scheduling line also reported as (732) 836-9300 under the "Brick Imaging" DBA)
• NPI: 1770735177
• NJ radiology license: MA59193
• Authorized official / owner: Duc Thi Tran, MD — a diagnostic radiologist, UMDNJ–Robert Wood Johnson Medical School (1990), who holds more than three decades of clinical experience and also serves as a medical director/partner with Stat Radiology LLC. Dr. Tran reportedly speaks English and Vietnamese.

Because the practice is a mammography-credentialed facility, it operates under the federal Mammography Quality Standards Act (MQSA), which requires annual FDA inspection, accredited equipment, and certified interpreting physicians. State-level oversight runs through the New Jersey Department of Health and the NJ Radiologic Technology Board of Examiners.

Based on public facility listings, the imaging menu at 1608 Route 88 W includes general radiography (plain-film X-ray), diagnostic and screening mammography, breast ultrasound, abdominal and pelvic ultrasound, obstetric ultrasound, bone-density scanning, CT, MRI, and referred nuclear-medicine studies. Patients should confirm the exact current menu — and specifically whether fluoroscopy-based studies are performed in-house — directly with the office before scheduling.

What It Isn't

To state the scope boundary plainly:

• Brick XRAY LLC is not a fertility clinic.
• It is not a reproductive endocrinology & infertility (REI) practice.
• It is not an OB/GYN office.
• It does not perform ovulation induction, intrauterine insemination (IUI), in-vitro fertilization (IVF), egg retrieval, or embryo transfer.
• It does not prescribe clomiphene, letrozole, gonadotropins, GnRH analogs, or progesterone support.
• It does not operate an embryology or andrology laboratory.
• It does not store frozen eggs, embryos, or sperm.
• It is not a member of the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology (SART) and is not represented in the CDC's ART success-rate reporting.

Every one of those services, if you need it, requires a separate, dedicated fertility practice. Brick XRAY LLC plays — at most — a supporting diagnostic role in a fertility workup that is directed, interpreted, and acted on by an REI or OB/GYN elsewhere.

Hysterosalpingogram (HSG) and the Fertility Workup

The one real reason a fertility patient might legitimately be referred to an imaging center like Brick XRAY is the hysterosalpingogram, or HSG. It is a fluoroscopic X-ray procedure in which a small amount of iodinated contrast is instilled through the cervix into the uterine cavity while the radiologist watches in real time and captures images. The study evaluates two specific things that matter in fertility care:

• Tubal patency — whether the fallopian tubes are open and able to carry an egg from ovary to uterus.
• Uterine cavity shape — whether the cavity is smooth and normal or distorted by fibroids, polyps, a uterine septum, or intrauterine scarring (Asherman syndrome).

The American Society for Reproductive Medicine and major academic OB/GYN programs describe HSG as a standard first-pass tubal assessment during fertility evaluation, typically scheduled in the early follicular phase (cycle days 7–10) after menses and before ovulation. A patient's OB/GYN or REI orders the HSG and interprets its clinical meaning; an imaging center like Brick XRAY performs the procedure itself. We could not independently verify from public materials whether Brick XRAY currently performs HSG — patients should confirm with the office directly before booking, and many referring clinicians in Ocean and Monmouth counties will name preferred imaging partners for this specific study.

If HSG is performed at Brick XRAY, the facility plays a legitimate, narrow role in the fertility referral pathway. Either way, the actual fertility diagnosis and every downstream treatment decision belongs to your referring clinician, not the imaging center.

Other Women's Imaging in the Fertility-Workup Neighborhood

Beyond HSG, a fertility workup sometimes touches general diagnostic imaging in ways that a community radiology center like Brick XRAY can support when ordered by the treating clinician:

• Screening and diagnostic mammography — relevant because patients starting fertility treatment in their late 30s and early 40s are often newly age-eligible for screening, and some protocols involving gonadotropins or extended hormone therapy benefit from an up-to-date baseline.
• Breast ultrasound — diagnostic follow-up for dense-breast findings or palpable lumps.
• Pelvic ultrasound — limited utility for fertility monitoring without a coordinating REI; commonly ordered by an OB/GYN for fibroids, cysts, or anatomic workup.
• Bone-density (DXA) — occasionally relevant for patients with prolonged GnRH-analog therapy or a history of hypothalamic amenorrhea.
• Plain-film X-ray, CT, MRI — general community imaging unrelated to fertility directly, but useful for the non-fertility side of a patient's care.

None of these studies substitute for a fertility evaluation. They support it when ordered by the right clinician.

When to See an Actual Fertility Clinic

The clinical criteria for a formal fertility evaluation, per ASRM and the American College of Obstetricians and Gynecologists, have not changed meaningfully in the last several years:

• 12 months of regular, unprotected intercourse without conception if the female partner is under 35.
• 6 months if the female partner is 35 or older.
• Any duration if there is a known or suspected issue: irregular or absent cycles (possible ovulatory dysfunction), a diagnosis of PCOS, endometriosis, fibroids, DES exposure, prior pelvic surgery or pelvic inflammatory disease, two or more pregnancy losses, or an abnormal semen analysis in the male partner.
• Single parents by choice and LGBTQ+ family-building — the diagnostic threshold does not apply in the same way; a direct REI or OB/GYN consult is the appropriate starting point once donor-sperm insemination is planned.

A first-pass REI workup generally includes cycle-day-3 FSH and estradiol, AMH, TSH and prolactin, a pelvic ultrasound with antral follicle count, an HSG for tubal patency, and a partner or donor semen analysis.

The New Jersey REI Market

New Jersey is one of the country's better-developed fertility markets, both clinically and from an insurance standpoint. The state is a mandate state: the Family Building Act requires state-regulated large-group insurance plans (50+ employees) to cover the diagnosis and treatment of infertility, including up to four completed egg retrievals plus medically indicated frozen embryo transfers. Self-funded ERISA employer plans are exempt. For the full cross-state picture, see our fertility insurance mandates by state guide.

From Brick Township, the reasonable-drive REI options include:

• IVI RMA of New Jersey — multiple sites statewide, including Freehold and Marlboro, both under an hour up the Garden State Parkway.
• Reproductive Medicine Associates of New Jersey (RMA NJ) — the well-known Basking Ridge flagship in Somerset County, plus satellite locations closer to Ocean County.
• Shady Grove Fertility New Jersey — part of the large Shady Grove network, with NJ offices that typically accept most commercial NJ plans.
• University Reproductive Associates (URA) — affiliated with Rutgers NJMS, with offices in Hasbrouck Heights and Wayne and a track record in diminished-ovarian-reserve and male-factor cases.
• Princeton IVF — a Princeton-based practice that sometimes serves patients in the southern half of the state.

Before choosing a clinic, read our primer on how to read IVF success rates so the CDC ART and SART numbers on each clinic's website make sense in context — raw live-birth rates by themselves are a misleading way to compare programs.

Considering At-Home Insemination?

Because Brick XRAY LLC does not offer any fertility services, some visitors landing here are early in family-building — often LGBTQ+ couples, single parents by choice, or partners without a diagnosed fertility issue who would rather try a lower-intervention first step before committing to a clinical REI schedule. New Jersey in particular has a large LGBTQ+ and single-parent-by-choice population, and insurance often does not cover IUI at an REI network on the first attempts.

At-home insemination kits from MakeAMom are a one-time, reusable-until-conception purchase and ship in plain, unmarked packaging. Many patients run several home intracervical (ICI) cycles in parallel with routine preventive care — including a baseline mammogram if age-appropriate — before escalating into a formal clinical workup. Home insemination does not replace a fertility evaluation if you meet the clinical criteria above, but for many low-risk users it is a reasonable first step.

Location and Contact

• Practice: Brick XRAY LLC
• Address: 1608 Route 88 West, Suite 102, Brick, NJ 08724
• Phone: (732) 349-8454 (also (732) 836-9300 under the Brick Imaging DBA)
• Fax: (732) 349-0266
• Owner / authorized official: Duc Thi Tran, MD, Diagnostic Radiology
• NPI: 1770735177
• NJ mammography license: MA59193
• Federal taxonomy: Clinic/Center — Radiology, Mammography (261QR0206X)
• Website: no independently verified practice website; patients should confirm services by phone

Frequently Asked Questions

Is Brick XRAY LLC a fertility clinic? No. Brick XRAY is federally credentialed as a radiology and mammography clinic. It does not provide IVF, IUI, egg freezing, donor-gamete services, or any form of fertility diagnosis or treatment. A separate reproductive endocrinologist is required for any of those services.

Does Brick XRAY perform hysterosalpingogram (HSG) for fertility workups? An HSG is a fluoroscopy-based X-ray that falls within the scope of a general diagnostic radiology clinic, but we could not independently verify from public materials that Brick XRAY currently performs HSG in-house. Call the office directly to confirm, and expect your OB/GYN or REI to be the one ordering and interpreting the study — the imaging center only performs the procedure.

What imaging is reasonable to have done at Brick XRAY during a fertility journey? Anything your treating OB/GYN or REI specifically orders there — most commonly a baseline or diagnostic mammogram, a breast ultrasound, or (if performed in-house) an HSG. The imaging center is a support vendor to your fertility clinician, not a substitute for one.

Does New Jersey insurance cover fertility treatment and HSG? New Jersey's Family Building Act requires state-regulated large-group plans to cover infertility diagnosis and treatment, and HSG is typically a covered diagnostic procedure under that framework. Self-funded ERISA plans are exempt from the mandate and should be verified individually. Your REI's billing team can usually run a benefits check in advance.

Editorial note: Independently written by the Fertlo editorial team based on the CMS/NPI registry record (NPI 1770735177), NJ physician licensing records, and public review data; not sponsored; no clinical affiliation. Facility scope may change — always confirm current services and credentials with the office directly. See our editorial policy.