Editorial policy

Who is responsible

Every guide and listing on this site is edited by Maya Ellison, Health Editor, working with the Vasectomy Cost Guide Editorial Team, which holds responsibility for the sources we choose, the records we publish and the corrections we make. There is no anonymous editorial board and no borrowed byline. Corrections and questions go to contact@vasectomycostguide.com.

Who writes the guides

Guides are written by the editorial team, edited by Maya Ellison, and checked against published guidance from the NHS, Mayo Clinic, Cleveland Clinic, Planned Parenthood, the American Urological Association and the Urology Care Foundation. We do not publish a byline for a clinician who has not reviewed the page, and we do not claim medical review that has not happened.

Sourcing

Every guide cites at least three public sources, listed at the bottom of the article. Numbers are used only when they come from a cited source; when a figure is uncertain we describe it qualitatively instead. Cost figures are always labelled as planning ranges, never as quotes for a named clinic.

Medical claims

  • No guarantees of outcome, and no “cure” language.
  • No invented statistics, prices, dates, ratings or study results.
  • No instruction that amounts to personal treatment advice.
  • No claim that a vasectomy is reversible without qualification — it is intended to be permanent.

Directory listings

Listings are compiled from public business data and published only when a name, street address and phone number are on file. We do not invent ratings or reviews. Where a public rating is shown, it comes from the public business record and is labelled as such. Listings are not endorsements, and a listing does not confirm that a practice currently performs vasectomies — the page tells readers to confirm that directly.

What we refuse to publish

  • Invented statistics, prices, dates or study results.
  • “Best clinic” rankings or paid placement presented as editorial judgement.
  • Reviews or ratings we have not received.
  • Reviewer credentials for a clinician who has not reviewed the page.

Corrections

Email the address above with the page URL and what is wrong. We correct the underlying record and note the change in the next refresh. If a correction changes a guide's substance, the “updated” date on the article is changed too.