Fertility clinics in Richmond, VA
The 2 fertility clinics in the Richmond, VA metro area that report to the CDC, compared by IVF live-birth rate at every patient age, with what IVF costs here and what Virginia law requires insurance to cover.
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2 fertility clinics in the Richmond, VA metro area report IVF outcomes to the CDC ART program. The highest reported live-birth rate per intended egg retrieval is 66.7% for patients under 35, 44.9% for 35 to 37 and 39.2% for 38 to 40 (Shady Grove Fertility-Richmond); 15.8% for over 40 (VCU Reproductive Medicine). These are CDC averages that depend heavily on age and diagnosis, not a guarantee for any individual, and a higher rate can reflect a clinic's case mix as much as its lab.
Every Richmond-area clinic, at every age
Each clinic's CDC live-birth rate per intended egg retrieval in each age band, so you can read the column for your age. Ranked by reported cycle volume; the highest rate in each column is highlighted. A dash means the CDC reported no rate for that clinic at that age.
- Shady Grove Fertility-RichmondRichmond, VA · 527 cycles
Donor eggs · Gestational carrier · Donated embryo · SART member
Over 4013.1%527 - VCU Reproductive MedicineRichmond, VA · 226 cycles
Donor eggs · Gestational carrier · Donated embryo · SART member
Under 3556.3%35–3724.1%38–4024.1%226
Rates and cycle counts come from the CDC ART program (2022 reporting year), the national reporting every US clinic is required to submit. The area is the Census Bureau's Richmond, VA metropolitan statistical area; a clinic belongs to it by the ZIP code of its address.
Metro area: US Census Bureau metropolitan statistical areas
How much does IVF cost in Richmond, VA?
What one IVF cycle typically costs, and how to get a real number from the clinics in this area.
No clinic in the Richmond area publishes an IVF price online yet; most quote only after a consult, so ask each clinic for a written, itemized estimate. Nationally, a single all-in IVF cycle typically runs $25,000 to $32,000, and because the average patient needs 2.3 to 2.7 cycles, a realistic amount to budget is $40,000 to $60,000.
IVF refund programs in Richmond, VA
Which Richmond-area clinics return money if treatment fails, which sell multi-cycle packages, and which offer neither, as each clinic's own website states it.
Of the 2 Richmond-area clinics whose websites we read on October 6, 2026, 1 offers a program that returns money if treatment fails. Shady Grove Fertility-Richmond offers Shared Risk 100% Refund Program: IVF using own eggs, with 100% of the program fee back if no live birth. The other clinic offers none of these. Ask for the written contract: what counts as success, how much comes back, and which medications and procedures are excluded.
- Shady Grove Fertility-RichmondMoney back if treatment fails
- Shared Risk 100% Refund Program: IVF using own eggsPrice not posted
100% of the program fee back if no live birth; covers up to 6 egg retrievals; enrollment up to age 40; medications extra.
No refund program or multi-cycle package on its website: VCU Reproductive Medicine.
From our check of every US clinic's refund programs, read Oct 6, 2026. Each program covers a different number of cycles, refund and exclusions, so its price is listed beside its own terms and never averaged. Ask for the written contract: what counts as success, how much comes back, and which medications and procedures are excluded.
Does insurance cover IVF in Richmond, VA?
What Virginia law requires of health plans, and why your employer's plan type matters as much.
No state law requires it: RESOLVE, the national infertility association, lists no Virginia law requiring insurers to cover IVF, infertility treatment or fertility preservation.
Virginia's full answer, with fertility preservationState insurance laws reach only fully-insured plans, and 67% of covered US workers are in self-funded employer plans, which set their own fertility benefits whatever the state requires. About 50% of employers with 500 or more workers now cover IVF. How to check your own plan.
Source: RESOLVE Insurance Coverage by State · as of Oct 1, 2026
Services at Richmond-area clinics
Of the 2 CDC-reporting clinics in the Richmond area, 2 offer donor egg services, 2 offer a gestational carrier (surrogacy) program, and 2 offer donated embryo services. 2 are members of SART, the Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology. Each figure counts only clinics the CDC affirms offer the service.
Source: CDC ART Services & Profiles (NASS) · as of Oct 6, 2026