STL Fertility (St. Louis, MO) — A Complete Patient Guide

STL Fertility is a physician-owned, women-led reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI) practice in the Creve Coeur / West County area of metro St. Louis. The practice was relaunched in 2020 by co-founders Molina B. Dayal, MD, MPH, FACOG and Maureen M. Schulte, MD, FACOG, who took over operations of the former SIRM St. Louis site and rebranded it as an independent, locally owned fertility center. The underlying legal entity — IntegraMed Medical Missouri, LLC (NPI 1275957169, enumerated 2014-02-12) — was retained when IntegraMed's national network dissolved in 2020, and now operates solely as the corporate wrapper for STL Fertility. With a 4.8-star Google rating across 182+ reviews, STL Fertility bills itself as the only locally and female-owned fertility center in the St. Louis region.

About the Practice

• Patient-facing brand: STL Fertility
• Legal entity: IntegraMed Medical Missouri, LLC dba STL Fertility (NPI 1275957169; taxonomy 207VE0102X Obstetrics & Gynecology, Reproductive Endocrinology & Infertility; authorized official Maureen Schulte, MD, Partner/Operations Director). The LLC name is a legacy of the site's prior life as SIRM St. Louis under IntegraMed's national management platform; the practice is now independent and physician-owned.
• Founded in current form: 2020 (site operates since the SIRM era)
• Website: stlfertility.com

Physician Roster

Molina B. Dayal, MD, MPH, FACOG — Co-Founder and Medical Director NPI 1124092556. Dual board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility (ABOG). MD Johns Hopkins University School of Medicine (1995); MPH Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health; Ob/Gyn residency Washington University in St. Louis (Administrative Chief Resident); REI fellowship University of Pennsylvania. Nearly 20 years of REI practice, including prior academic faculty appointment at George Washington University and Medical Director tenure at SIRM St. Louis (2013).

Maureen M. Schulte, MD, FACOG — Co-Founder and Operations Director NPI 1518287572. Dual board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology and in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. BS Truman State University; MD University of Illinois College of Medicine; Ob/Gyn residency and REI fellowship both at Washington University in St. Louis. Recipient of the 2017 First-Place Outstanding Paper, Pacific Coast Reproductive Society and a 2015 ASRM/SREI Research Fellowship Grant. Has personally navigated her own fertility journey — a perspective she describes as central to how she counsels patients.

Violet Klenov, MD, FACOG — Reproductive Endocrinologist NPI 1134484082. Board-certified in Obstetrics and Gynecology; fellowship-trained in Reproductive Endocrinology and Infertility. MD Loyola University Chicago Stritch School of Medicine; Ob/Gyn residency Washington University in St. Louis; REI fellowship University of Iowa. Serves as REI subspecialty faculty educator for the Mercy Hospital St. Louis Ob/Gyn residency program. Recognized by the Pacific Coast Reproductive Society for research on environmental toxins and reproductive health, with multiple publications on PubMed.

Services

• In Vitro Fertilization (IVF) — standard and minimal-stimulation protocols
• Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) — stimulated and unstimulated, partner or donor sperm
• Egg freezing and fertility preservation — elective and oncofertility
• Donor egg cycles — recipient coordination
• Preimplantation Genetic Testing (PGT-A / PGT-M / PGT-SR)
• LGBTQ+ family-building pathways, reciprocal IVF, and gestational surrogacy coordination
• Minimally invasive reproductive surgery (hysteroscopy, laparoscopy)
• Male-factor evaluation and semen analysis

What This Practice Is

STL Fertility operates as a SART-member REI practice (SART CORS) with a fully equipped on-site embryology and andrology laboratory at the New Ballas Road suite. As the successor site to SIRM St. Louis, the lab has long-standing CLIA certification and FDA registration for reproductive tissue handling. Cycle-level outcomes are reported to ASRM/SART and included in the CDC ART Success Rates registry; current-year numbers are typically ~2 years in arrears. Both co-founders hold adjunct faculty appointments at Saint Louis University and train Mercy Hospital St. Louis Ob/Gyn residents on-site.

Missouri Insurance Context — Non-Mandate State

Missouri is not a fertility-coverage-mandate state. Missouri state law does not require commercial insurers to cover diagnosis or treatment of infertility, IVF, or fertility preservation. Coverage is employer-by-employer: large self-insured employers headquartered in St. Louis (including several Fortune 500 companies) do offer robust IVF benefits through carve-out programs like Progyny, Carrot, or WIN Fertility, while small-group plans and many individual plans cover nothing beyond diagnostic workup. Patients should confirm with their employer's benefits team (1) whether fertility benefits exist, (2) number of covered cycles and dollar caps, and (3) prior-authorization requirements for PGT. See our 2025 guide to state fertility insurance mandates.

Patient Experience

The 4.8-star Google rating (182+ reviews) reflects recurring patient themes around compassionate, empathy-led communication, the practical advantage of an all-female physician team in a specialty where many patients prefer gender-concordant care, and the transparency that comes with a locally owned practice versus a national network. Reviews frequently mention Dr. Schulte's openness about her own fertility journey and Dr. Dayal's measured, unhurried consultation style.

Considering At-Home Insemination?

Not every fertility journey starts in a clinic. For patients without a diagnosed fertility problem — including single parents by choice, same-sex female couples, and people who want to try a few cycles before an REI consult — at-home intracervical insemination (ICI) is a lower-cost, private option. MakeAMom at-home insemination kits are reusable, ship in plain packaging, and come with step-by-step instructions for donor or partner sperm. Many patients use them while waiting for a specialist appointment or alongside preconception-health optimization. If you've tried for 12 months (6 months if age 35+) or have a known diagnosis like blocked tubes, severe male factor, or diminished ovarian reserve, an REI is the right next step.

When to Consult STL Fertility

A consultation is appropriate if you have tried to conceive for 12+ months (6 months if age 35+), have a known infertility diagnosis (PCOS, endometriosis, diminished ovarian reserve, tubal factor, male-factor infertility), are planning egg freezing for medical or elective reasons, are an LGBTQ+ individual or couple pursuing donor-sperm IUI/IVF or reciprocal IVF, or are an intended parent working with a gestational carrier. For help interpreting clinic outcome data, see our guide on how to read IVF success rates.

Location and Contact

• Address: 555 N New Ballas Road, Suite 150, St. Louis, MO 63141
• Phone: (314) 983-9000
• Website: stlfertility.com

For other Missouri REI options, see our Missouri fertility clinic directory.

FAQ

Why do I see three Fertlo entries for this clinic — "STL Fertility," "St. Louis Fertility Services LLC (Chesterfield)," and "STLFertility LLC"? Fertlo's directory was built in part from automated imports of NPI and state business registrations, which can produce multiple slug variations of the same underlying practice. The canonical entry for this clinic is STL Fertility (this page), backed by IntegraMed Medical Missouri, LLC dba STL Fertility (NPI 1275957169) at 555 N New Ballas Rd. The stlfertility-llc-saint-louis-mo slug is a patient-brand-LLC variant that maps to the same practice and is flagged as a directory duplicate. The st-louis-fertility-services-llc-chesterfield-mo slug, however, is a separate legal entity (NPI 1659155950, 15320 Conway Rd, Chesterfield) — on closer inspection the Chesterfield address is the home of a different St. Louis REI practice (Arbor Fertility / Dr. Shvetha Zarek), so that slug is a directory-scope mismatch rather than a true duplicate of STL Fertility. Fertlo flags all three in our directory-cleanup workflow.

Is STL Fertility a SART-member clinic? Yes — STL Fertility reports cycle outcomes to the SART/CDC ART registry. The most recent clinic-level figures are typically ~2 years in arrears; verify current data directly at cdc.gov/art or sartcorsonline.com.

Does STL Fertility treat LGBTQ+ patients and single parents by choice? Yes — donor-sperm IUI/IVF for single women and female couples, reciprocal IVF, and gestational surrogacy coordination are routine service lines. The practice markets itself as an inclusive, welcoming environment.

Does STL Fertility operate its own embryology lab? Yes. The embryology and andrology labs are on-site at the 555 N New Ballas suite and CLIA-certified. The lab is the successor operation to the former SIRM St. Louis lab.

Is STL Fertility still part of IntegraMed? No. IntegraMed's national network filed for bankruptcy in 2020, and Dr. Dayal and Dr. Schulte took over and relaunched the site as the independent, physician-owned STL Fertility that same year. "IntegraMed Medical Missouri, LLC" persists only as the legal-entity name on the NPI registration; it is now a locally owned Missouri LLC operating exclusively as STL Fertility.

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