IVF Cost

Two days after sending my letter requesting information on the IVF cost, IVF success rate and IVF procedure to the EGV Clinic in Latvia I received the reply below.

I have added the approximate US$ costs in red.

Their website has a full list of costs on it and there is an English translation. Click here to see full price list.

The questions that I asked were:

1. What is the current success rate for your clinic? (preferably by age as I know that the success rate will be much lower for somebody of my age)
2. How many cycles do you perform per year at the clinic?
3. What is the maximum age that you treat?
4. Are there any fertility conditions that you will not treat?
5. What is your embryo transfer policy? How many embryos will you replace at one time?
6. What is the basic cost of the IVF treatment?
7. What additional costs would / could be incurred?
8. What happens to the costs if the cycle has to be abandoned?
9. How long would I need to be in Latvia for?
10. Who deals with the logistics of flights and accommodation?
11. How is the pre-treatment carried out?
12. How do I get medication?
13. How will I be monitored?
14. How will I know that I am not being under / over stimulated?
15. If I have a problem whilst in the UK who would I go to?
16. Is the clinic registered with any regulatory body?

The response I got was:

Dear, Sue!
Thank You for choosing our clinic!
I will try to answer to Your questions, so:
1. Successfull rate last year was 39% with fresh embryo transfer procedure.
2. Our clinic make many IVF cycles, so our experience is quite big.
3. In Latvia there is no age limit for IVF procedures.
4. We can’t help to patients, who has HIV positive tests results, or any others body conditions, that don’t aloow to make possible procedure.
5. In Latvia is allowed to transfer 1-3 embryos per time.
6. Wright now IVF procedure costs 1700.00 Euros (approx. US$2,325) (in this price isn’t included Your investigation, treatment and ICSI).
7. In some cases if we will get many embryos for freezing – it will be additional price also for storage in freezer.
8. Half of price You will need to pay by bank money transfer before pick-up eggs procedure and the rest price for all procedures – You will need to pay on day of transfer.
9. In most of cases patients do treatment in their contry and came to Riga when they are ready for pick-up eggs procedure. Then stay in Riga for 4-5 days, and then go back home.
10. All things You have to manage by Yourself.
11.  All treatment I will manage for the distance, so You will have to go to Your doctor for some investigations, like blood tests and untrasound.
12. I can write a prescription for You on Latvian recipe. Then You will have to buy it in Your pharmacy.
13. Like I wrote before, You will have to go to the doctor who will make a ultrasounds, etc.
14. If everything will go good, it won’t happen. And it depends of doctors experience in ultrasound measurments.
15. You will have to go to Your doctor or call emergency.
16. Sorry, but I didn’t understood Your last question. Could You explane it?

Best regards, Maris Arajs, MD.