How Many US Fertility Clinics Post IVF Prices? (2026)

An original census of every CDC-reporting US fertility clinic location: who posts an IVF price online, who makes you call first, and what the posted prices actually cover.

About one in three US fertility clinics now posts an IVF price on its own website. When we checked all 452 clinic locations that report to the CDC's assisted reproductive technology program in September 2026, 155 of them (34.3%) posted a self-pay IVF price and 283 asked patients to call or book a consultation before saying what treatment costs. That is a real change from about one in five in 2019, but it still means that most people comparing clinics cannot see what a clinic charges until they are already in its funnel.

That matters because most Americans pay for IVF themselves. A single all-in cycle typically runs $25,000 to $32,000 once medications and common extras are included, and the average patient needs 2.3 to 2.7 cycles, so a realistic budget is $40,000 to $60,000 ( FertilityIQ; our full breakdown is on what IVF costs). Comparison shopping on a purchase that size needs prices, and for two thirds of clinic locations there are none to compare.

This article reports what we found, how we counted, and what it means if you are choosing a clinic. Every clinic's result is in a free dataset under CC BY 4.0, archived with a DOI, and our September report carries the analysis code. One correction up front: re-reading every posted price on October 2, we found that 4 of the 159 prices in that report were general cost estimates for a whole region rather than a clinic's own price, so the figures below are the corrected ones (the report's were 159 of 452, or 35.2%). No conclusion changes.

Key findings

• 34.3% of US clinic locations post a self-pay IVF price: 155 of the 452 we checked (95% confidence interval 30.1% to 38.8%). Counted by website rather than location, 122 of 360 clinic websites (33.9%) do.
• That is up from about 1 in 5 in 2019. Among websites of SART member clinics, 34.5% (97 of 281) posted an IVF price, against 19.9% of 361 in a July 2019 review ( Larsen and colleagues, 2020). The 14.6-point rise is far larger than chance would produce (z = 4.16, p < 0.001).
• Big clinics post far more often. In the busiest quarter of clinics by IVF cycles reported to the CDC, 45.1% of locations post a price; in each of the two quietest quarters, 27.0% do.
• Networks post more. Locations that belong to a multi-location network post a price 51.9% of the time, against 31.9% for other clinics.
• State insurance mandates make no difference. In the 14 states and DC that require some plans to cover IVF, 35.6% of locations post a price; elsewhere 33.2% do. A 2024 study had found the opposite, and we explain the gap below.
• Your city matters more than your state's laws. In the 30 metro areas with the most clinics, 37.0% of locations post a price, against 28.9% everywhere else, and states range from 62.5% in Colorado to none in Michigan.
• A posted price is not a comparable price. One network posts four different starting prices for the same package in four Texas cities, from $11,760 to $16,500.

How we counted

The clinics. We started from every clinic location in the CDC's national ART clinic data for the 2022 reporting year, the most recent the CDC publishes: 457 locations. Five could not be checked, which left 452. Each location has its own page on IVFcost.co, and every state and metro area page lists them.

The check. Between September 13 and September 28, 2026, we read each location's own website: its pricing, fees, financing and cost pages. Each location got one of three outcomes:

What does not count as a price. A figure from a directory, cost guide or aggregator never counts: only the clinic's own website. Neither does a general statement about what IVF costs in a region, even on a clinic's own blog. That second rule is where our correction comes from. One clinic's article said that "In the San Francisco Bay Area, the costs for one cycle of IVF range from $14,000 to $19,000", which tells you about the Bay Area, not about that clinic. Four such figures had been recorded as clinic prices; they are now excluded everywhere on this site, and the check that reads clinic websites now has to say whose number it found before an amount can be stored.

Locations and websites. Networks often run one pricing page for many locations, so a single website can stand behind several of the 452 locations. That is why we report both: 29 websites cover 111 locations, and counting by website gives 122 of 360 (33.9%).

Statistics. Every share comes with a 95% Wilson confidence interval in the dataset. With fewer than about 20 locations in a group, read a share as a rough signal, not a ranking.

Up from one in five in 2019

The best earlier benchmark is a review of US clinic websites by Larsen and colleagues, who in July 2019 checked the websites of 361 SART member clinics ( Translational Andrology and Urology, 2020). They found that 19.9% listed an IVF-related price, 14.1% listed an IVF cycle price excluding medications, and 24.7% listed any price information at all.

Applying the closest comparable definition to our 2026 data, websites of SART member clinics that post an IVF price, gives 34.5%:

The two studies were done differently: Larsen's team worked from SART's clinic list and reviewed each website once, while we started from the CDC's location list and read each location's site. Both ask the same question, though (does the website show what IVF costs?), and a 14.6-point rise is far beyond what sampling noise would produce. More clinics publish a price than seven years ago. Most still do not.

Who posts a price: big clinics and networks

The clearest pattern in the data is scale. We split clinics into four equal groups by the number of IVF cycles each reported to the CDC for 2022:

Networks show the same thing from another angle: 51.9% of network locations (28 of 54) post a price, against 31.9% (127 of 398) of other clinics. Large practices and networks tend to sell IVF as defined packages ("IVF without genetic testing, starting at...") and have finance teams that publish them, while small practices more often quote patient by patient. SART membership makes a smaller difference: 35.6% of member locations post a price, against 28.9% of non-members.

State insurance mandates make no difference

Fifteen jurisdictions (14 states and DC) require some health plans to cover IVF; our insurance guide lists what every state's law requires. You might expect clinics in those states to post prices more often, or less often, but the share is almost the same: 35.6% (73 of 205 locations) in mandate states against 33.2% (82 of 247) elsewhere, with confidence intervals that overlap almost entirely.

That differs from a 2024 study by Imbroane and colleagues in the Journal of Women's Health, which reviewed 311 clinic websites from the SART locator and found clinics in mandate states 2.13 times as likely to list specific costs (95% CI 1.19 to 3.81). The difference may come from what was counted (any specific cost on the website, against a self-pay IVF price), from which clinics were included (SART-listed clinics, against every CDC location), or from timing (their review predates 2024; ours is September 2026). Whatever the cause, at the level of individual clinic locations today, a state mandate does not predict whether a clinic shows its price.

Part of the reason may be that mandates reach fewer patients than they seem to: state insurance laws apply only to fully-insured plans, and 67% of covered US workers are in self-funded employer plans that set their own benefits ( KFF 2025 Employer Health Benefits Survey). Even in a mandate state, many patients pay out of pocket.

By state

These are the states where we checked at least eight clinic locations. Each name links to that state's clinic page, which lists every posted price with what it covers.

With so few clinics per state, a single clinic changes a state's share by 10 points or more, so treat the order as approximate. Across the whole country, 35 of the 51 jurisdictions we checked (49 states, DC and Puerto Rico; Wyoming has no CDC-reporting clinic) have at least one location that posts a price.

By metro area

Clinics are chosen by drive time, so the metro area is the more useful unit. In the 30 metro areas that have their own clinic comparison page (each has at least four CDC-reporting clinics), 37.0% of locations (111 of 300) post a price, against 28.9% (44 of 152) of locations elsewhere. These are the metro areas where we checked at least eight locations; each links to its page, which compares every clinic there at every patient age.

Metro areas follow the US Census Bureau's metropolitan statistical area definitions, and each clinic is placed by the ZIP code of its address.

What a posted price actually covers

A posted price answers "what does this clinic charge for this package", not "what will IVF cost me". That is why we never average posted prices or rank clinics by them: the packages differ too much. Two examples, both read on the clinics' own pages on October 2, 2026:

• One clinic, two prices. Arizona Reproductive Medicine Specialists in Phoenix lists Gentle IVF at $4,800 and Optimal IVF at $11,725. Neither includes medication (the clinic estimates $1,200 to $1,500 and $2,000 to $2,900 respectively) or genetic testing (about $4,000). The cheaper program uses lower medication doses and fewer visits, so the two amounts buy different treatment.
• One package, four cities. Aspire Fertility lists IVF without genetic testing, the same package with the same inclusions, starting at $11,760 in San Antonio, $13,125 in Houston, $14,250 in Dallas and $16,500 in Austin for patients without fertility coverage ( San Antonio, Houston, Dallas, Austin). Even within one network, location changes the starting price by almost $5,000.

Beyond those, posted figures range from retrieval-only fees to bundles that include genetic testing and a frozen transfer, and some are the low end of a published range. Our costs page lists every posted price with what it includes, grouped by state, and each state page shows its own.

What this means if you are choosing a clinic

1. Use posted prices to shortlist, not to decide. Line up what each package includes: monitoring, anesthesia, ICSI, embryo freezing and storage, a frozen transfer, genetic testing and medications. A lower number often buys less.
2. Ask every clinic for a written, itemized estimate. If you are paying yourself, US law gives you the right to one: under the No Surprises Act, a provider must give you a Good Faith Estimate of expected charges if you ask for one or schedule care at least three business days ahead, within one to three business days, and you need it if you later dispute a bill ( CMS).
3. Budget for the whole course, not one cycle. Our IVF cost calculator builds an all-in estimate by age and plan, and our guide to how much IVF costs explains every line.
4. Check what can lower the bill. See whether your state requires coverage on your state's clinic page, which IVF grants accept residents of your state, and the loans and refund programs in paying for IVF.

Limitations

• A snapshot of websites. Prices change. We re-check every location about every two weeks, so the live data on this site can differ from the September figures above.
• Posting is not honoring. We record what a clinic publishes; we do not test whether it charges that amount.
• The CDC list lags. It covers clinics that reported 2022 cycles. Clinics that opened since are missing, and a few listed locations have since closed or merged.
• Locations are not independent. Network locations often share one pricing page, which is why the website-level figure is reported alongside the location-level one.
• Unresolved cases. For 14 locations the check could not tell whether a price is posted.

Get the data

• Live file: every location with its outcome, amount, terms, source page and check date, as a free CSV. The dataset page explains every column.
• Archived snapshot: the September 28, 2026 version, fixed for citation, at doi:10.5281/zenodo.23017009 (all versions: doi:10.5281/zenodo.23017008).
• Report and code: doi:10.5281/zenodo.23056772. The October 2 correction is noted on the dataset page, and the next archived snapshot carries the corrected classification.
• Kaggle copy: US IVF clinic price check.

The data is free to reuse under the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 license. Please cite it as: IVFcost.co (2026). US IVF clinic price check [Data set]. Zenodo. https://doi.org/10.5281/zenodo.23017008

This analysis reflects clinic websites as checked between September 13 and 28, 2026, corrected on October 2, 2026. Clinic prices and policies change; confirm current pricing with each clinic before you decide.