Fertility tourism can bring in substantial cost savings in your infertility treatment program depending upon the choice of the country where you want to have your treatment done. In an IVF, in order to optimize your results  increasing the chance of pregnancy and a successful child delivery you need to plan your actions properly to achieve a cost benefit following the under mentioned tips :

-Before going for an IVF three critically significant examinations are to be done like semen analysis, blood tests for ovarian function (including FSH,,LH,PRL,TSH,AMH) and the ultrasound test.  These are inexpensive tests and the results are going to hold good for six months at least.

– This might sound a bit unethical and exploitative, fertility tourism to developing countries where the level of education and financial condition of the locals is on the borderline, infertility treatment services come darn cheap. Let’s see it from the socioeconomic angle. Surrogacy and egg donation services become an easy earning option for girls belonging to the lower economic bracket with little academic exposure. These service lenders settle for quite a low remuneration for their services making infertility treatment oriented tourism quite cheaper for the customers for the affluent western world.  Cambodia, Thailand and India are typical examples where infertility treatment is quite inexpensive.

– Countries where social and legal complications involving fertility treatment and related service procedures are absent could help intending parents achieve huge cost savings as they will not have to pay huge amounts of money towards fees on legal opinions and legal proceedings defending their cases. The intending parents opting for the right country offering a relaxed legislative framework regulating surrogacy, egg donation, IVF and ART will certainly have an economic advantage.

– Fertility treatment in home countries may be sometimes very expensive due to a shortage of supply of sperm and egg donors and surrogate mothers. This is simply due to insufficient number of surrogate mothers and egg donors available against the collective demand of the intending parents. In comparison, an alien country with an abundance of these services can offer you the same treatment at a much lower rate even counterbalancing the cost of travel to these countries.

– For American parents, there is a definite cost advantage in seeking infertility solution services abroad. Service charges for infertility treatment including medical procedures and surrogate compensation are significantly lesser in countries like Cambodia, India, Thailand and Georgia compared to an US based clinic. One can get the world class infertility treatment at a much lower cost.

-The commercial surrogacy laws in India reap heaps of financial benefits to the intending parents and there are only just a few other countries who could match up to India’s low priced surrogacy service packages. Commercial surrogacy is legal in India since 2002. India has a legally favorable environment concerning issues of surrogacy and hence the intending parents practically need not pay a dime on buying legal support. The law framed back in 2002 have cut down the infertility treatment expenses, improved medical infrastructure and enhanced the availability of surrogate mothers in India. These factors have played a significant role in making India a prime destination for fertility tourism for the western clients.

–  Mexico is another low cost infertility treatment destination that has become a hotspot for American intending parents. Financing a fertility treatment is a big issue with the US customers. Health insurance companies covering infertility treatment expenses are just handful. IVF treatment cost in the US is somewhere around 20000USD which can shoot if additional treatment like ICSI and PGD are included in the package. Including flight fare, a Mexican clinic would charge you around 500 USD keeping the quality of the services at par.

So from the above citations it is firmly established that infertility tourism leads to cost savings compared to treatment back home.