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The cost per cycle averages $15,000. But while as many as 1 in 7 couples struggle with infertility, only about a quarter of U.S. companies with 200 or more employees cover IVF. Trump’s goal ...
President Donald Trump on Tuesday signed an executive order aiming to reduce the costs of in vitro fertilization, a medical procedure that helps people facing infertility build their families. “Americans need reliable access to IVF and more affordable treatment options, as the cost per cycle can range from $12,000 to $25,000,” the order said.
Only 25% of Americans have coverage for IVF. [14] On average, the cost of one IVF cycle costs about $12,000, which does not include fertility medications that typically range from $3,000 to $10,000. [7] The average cost of reciprocal IVF in the United States is over $20,000 but varies based on the clinic and medication protocols. [14]
Trump pledged in August to make IVF “free” if he reclaimed power — as Democrats claimed that Republican opposition to abortion threatened access to the procedure. Boston Globe via Getty Images
Thus, if a clomiphene treatment has a chance to establish a pregnancy in 8% of cycles and costs $800, the expected cost is $9,700 to establish a pregnancy, compared to an IVF cycle (cycle fecundity 40%) with a corresponding expected cost of $48,300 ($19,300 × 40%).
The base fee for IVF averages between $9,000 and $14,000, according to KFF, and many patients require multiple rounds of treatment plus additional costs for freezing eggs, storage and other services.
In vitro fertilization (IVF) is a process of fertilization in which an egg is combined with sperm in vitro ("in glass"). The process involves monitoring and stimulating a woman's ovulatory process, then removing an ovum or ova (egg or eggs) from her ovaries and enabling a man's sperm to fertilise them in a culture medium in a laboratory.
Intracytoplasmic sperm injection (ICSI / ˈ ɪ k s i / IK-see) is an in vitro fertilization (IVF) procedure in which a single sperm cell is injected directly into the cytoplasm of an egg. This technique is used in order to prepare the gametes for the obtention of embryos that may be transferred to a maternal uterus.