IVF cycles and cost
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Yes. Because you’d only be paying for the drugs and the transfer procedure. Some clinics have packages that include all the embryos from one ‘cycle’, so you don’t have to pay extra for subsequent transfers. To give you an example, Care has detailed pricing schedules on its website (here’s the Nottingham one): https://www.carefertility.com/fertility-clinics/nottingham/costs/ They also do multi-cycle packages (with eligibility criteria) so you can bundle cycles together or even get a refund if they don’t work. Note: the prices don’t include the drugs as these are different for everyone. You’ll need to budget up to £2k for the stimulation drugs and anywhere from £300-£1500 for subsequent transfers.
Just to clarify the jargons used in ivf - a ‘cycle’ or ‘round’ typically means one round of egg collection. A cycle can have many transfers, usually with 1 fresh and also frozen transfers (FETs), but not everyone has something left for freezing. So if you say a cycle fails it would usually mean you have used up all embryos from the same collection.
Thank you for your replies, I’ll see if clinic we are going to will have options but I doubt it. I’m hoping the first ivf cycle/round will produce lots of eggs that they can freeze and if the first transfer doesn’t work we can gradually use them. I don’t know what that would be called though to see if it’s on the price list or would that still be included in the first payment
I paid around £1800 for my second cycle, that included meds, scans and embryo transfer. Xx
You’re better being on a program where you get the transfers included until you have a baby. My clinic charges nearly £2700 for a frozen transfer. Plus meds on top. I’m lucky I can do a natural transfer and only pay £40 for progesterone.
Depends on your treatment ….i paid up to £6000 for egg collection and medication and a transfer ….second transfer will cost me £4000 as I need a full medicated cycle ….its £2,800 for transfer then £1,000 for medication.
Also you have to pay for storage of you embryos too ….so technically it’s cheaper after you done the whole egg collection….but depending if you need to down reg for a transfer with the remaining that’s where it can get costly again x
As others have said, a financing programme is totally worth considering. We paid around £10K for 2 ICSI cycles, and this ended up covering 2 egg collections, 1 fresh transfer and 3 frozen transfers! Can’t imagine how much that would be if PAYG.
Thank you for your replies, I’m hoping our clinic will do packages, I’ll find out more when we go back. We’ve been referred from the NHS but are self funded so I’m assuming they’ll be good value as it’s who the NHS use too. Fingers crossed we only need 1 x
Depending on which clinic you’re at, a lot accept access fertility. Ours did and that’s what we used.
If u have leftover embryos from that first cycle - they will use them for transfers only so it will be lot cheaper as u are only doing 2nd part of ivf.