Houston Fertility Institute PA is a professional association entity operating at 13215 Dotson Rd, Houston, TX 77070 — the same northwest Houston address that houses CCRM Fertility's Houston Main Center, formerly known as Houston Fertility Institute PLLC. In Texas healthcare law, a Professional Association (PA) is a distinct legal entity from a Professional Limited Liability Company (PLLC); both may operate at the same physical address, share clinical infrastructure, and be staffed by the same physicians while maintaining separate NPI registrations for billing and credentialing purposes. Understanding the distinction between the PA entity and the PLLC or corporate entity at the same address is important for patients navigating insurance claims, NPI verification, and prior authorization requests. The practice is listed under infertilityivfhouston.com and holds a 4.2-star rating across 85 reviews. The Dotson Rd clinic serves northwest Houston and nearby communities including Cypress, Tomball, and Champions. Texas has no state infertility insurance mandate, and the practice is listed among Texas fertility clinics.
For most patients, the PA entity designation is transparent — it affects billing and credentialing more than day-to-day clinical experience. The physicians, nurses, laboratory team, and clinical environment at 13215 Dotson Rd serve patients across both the PA and PLLC entities. However, understanding which entity is billing your insurer matters for prior authorization letters, in-network verification, and explanation of benefits documents.
Physicians and Clinical Team
Houston Fertility Institute PA at the Dotson Rd address is staffed by the same reproductive endocrinologists as the co-located CCRM / HFI PLLC entity. These physicians hold ABOG board certification in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility, are ASRM members, and the practice participates in SART, which governs annual reporting of ART cycle outcomes to an independently reviewed national database.
The clinical team includes cycle coordinator nurses, embryologists, and sonographers who manage the full workflow of an IVF cycle from initial stimulation monitoring through egg retrieval, embryo culture, and frozen transfer. Patients who are new to IVF can review our guide to IVF treatment before their first consultation to understand the sequence of steps involved in a typical cycle.
Services and Treatments
Houston Fertility Institute PA at 13215 Dotson Rd offers the same comprehensive fertility services as the co-located practice:
- In vitro fertilization (IVF) with individualized controlled ovarian stimulation
- Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI) for male factor infertility
- Intrauterine insemination (IUI) with or without ovulation induction
- Egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) for elective and medical fertility preservation
- Embryo cryopreservation and frozen embryo transfer (FET)
- Preimplantation genetic testing for aneuploidies (PGT-A)
- Preimplantation genetic testing for monogenic disorders (PGT-M)
- Donor egg IVF coordinated through egg banks and fresh donor programs
- Donor sperm services and therapeutic donor insemination
- Gestational carrier coordination
- Recurrent pregnancy loss evaluation and management
- Male fertility evaluation including semen analysis and sperm DNA fragmentation testing
- Ovarian reserve assessment (AMH, FSH, antral follicle count)
- Uterine evaluation via hysteroscopy and saline infusion sonography
Laboratory and Success Rates
The IVF laboratory at Dotson Rd supports the full embryology workflow across both entity structures: ICSI, extended blastocyst culture, trophectoderm biopsy for PGT, vitrification, and warming for frozen embryo transfer. SART membership requires annual submission of cycle data to an independently validated national database.
Patients should review the most current cycle-level data published by the CDC's ART Surveillance program and the SART Clinic Summary Report.
Patients should confirm which SART-registered entity name corresponds to the PA entity at 13215 Dotson Rd when looking up published outcomes. SART reporting occurs at the clinic level; if the PA and PLLC entities at the same address report under a consolidated registration, their data will appear together. The CCRM rebranding may also affect how current and prior cycles are reported; asking the financial or clinical coordinator team for clarification on which SART reporting entity applies to your cycle is reasonable practice.
Patient Experience
The patient experience at the 13215 Dotson Rd address is consistent regardless of whether a patient's care is billed under the PA or PLLC entity — the physicians, nursing staff, and laboratory are shared. Reviews of this northwest Houston location frequently note the geographic convenience for patients in the Champions, Cypress, Willowbrook, and northwest I-45 communities who would otherwise travel to the Texas Medical Center. The Beltway 8 / FM 1960 access makes the clinic reachable from a wide swath of Houston's north and northwest suburbs.
Staff communication during active treatment cycles — when patients need timely responses about monitoring results, medication dose adjustments, and procedure timing — is cited in reviews as a key quality metric. Patients considering the Dotson Rd location as their treatment site should confirm current physician and coordinator team assignments, as staffing can evolve following a practice acquisition and rebrand.
Considering At-Home Insemination?
Not every fertility journey begins in a clinic. At-home intracervical insemination (ICI) is a lower-cost, private option that suits patients with no known fertility diagnosis — including single parents by choice, same-sex couples, and people who want to try a few cycles before committing to clinical treatment.
At-home insemination kits like those from MakeAMom come with step-by-step instructions designed for donor or partner sperm. Kits are a one-time purchase that can be reused until conception succeeds, require no clinic visit, and arrive in plain, discreet packaging. Many patients use them as a first step while working toward a fertility consultation — or alongside ovulation tracking while they wait for an appointment slot.
If you have a known fertility diagnosis, have been trying for 12 months without success (six months if you're over 35), or your physician has already recommended IUI or IVF, a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist is the right next step.
Insurance and Financing
Texas does not have a state infertility insurance mandate. Coverage depends on your employer's voluntary benefit design or the terms of an individual health plan. Patients whose insurer requires an NPI for prior authorization should confirm which NPI corresponds to the PA entity specifically, as multi-entity practices at the same address may have different NPI registrations for the PA versus the PLLC.
The financial team at the Dotson Rd practice assists with insurance verification, prior authorization support, and cost estimation before treatment begins. For self-pay patients, multi-cycle pricing packages and third-party financing through healthcare lenders are available. Medication costs for an IVF cycle are substantial; the practice can advise on specialty pharmacy options and manufacturer patient assistance programs for injectable gonadotropins.
Frequently Asked Questions
What is the difference between Houston Fertility Institute PA and Houston Fertility Institute PLLC at the same address? A Professional Association (PA) and a Professional Limited Liability Company (PLLC) are different legal business structures under Texas law, each with its own NPI. Both entities may be co-located at the same address, staffed by the same physicians, and use the same clinical infrastructure, but they are distinct for purposes of insurance billing, credentialing, and legal liability. From a patient care standpoint, the entities are clinically identical; the distinction matters primarily for insurance claims processing.
How does the CCRM Fertility acquisition relate to the PA entity? CCRM Fertility acquired the Houston Fertility Institute operations at Dotson Rd and rebranded the location as CCRM Houston Main Center. The underlying PA entity may continue to operate for billing or credentialing purposes even as the clinical brand transitions to CCRM. Patients should confirm with the practice's administrative team which entity is currently active for billing under their insurance plan.
Does the PA entity at Dotson Rd share physicians with the Fannin St entities? The Houston Fertility Institute brand operates from multiple Houston addresses. The Dotson Rd location in northwest Houston is geographically and clinically distinct from the Fannin St Medical Center locations. Whether physicians have appointment days at multiple locations depends on individual physician scheduling; patients should confirm with the scheduling team.
How do I verify which entity is in-network with my insurance? Contact your insurer's member services line and provide both the PA entity name (Houston Fertility Institute PA) and its NPI number, along with the 13215 Dotson Rd address. Your insurer can confirm network status for that specific NPI. Confirm this before your first appointment, as a different co-located entity being in-network does not automatically mean the PA entity is.