Success Rate of In Vitro Fertilization in Turkey and USA

Another key aspect in patients’ decision-making is the İVF treatment success rate in Turkey vs USA. As a metric of efficacy, he utilized the rate of successful pregnancies in his study. The take-home baby rate was not employed as an efficacy metric since clinical pregnancy cases should be considered as a proximate indicator of IVF treatment success. After the pregnancy, the majority of patients who have IVF procedures overseas return to their native country. Data on the baby’s delivery is frequently unavailable, and the take-home baby rate is influenced by a variety of additional circumstances outside the control of IVF clinics.

Age group of patients     IVF Success Rate Turkey         IVF Success Rate USA

<35 years                             68                                             48

35-37 years                         63                                               39

38-40 years                          44                                                30

41-42 years                          32                                               20

>42 years                            9                                                 9

We can now calculate the cost-efficiency of IVF services in Turkey and the United States using the clinical pregnancy rate as the efficacy metric. The cost-effectiveness of IVF treatments is shown above as the cost per successful clinical pregnancy. The average age of patients was used in the calculations to get the average success rate in each country. It is estimated that 80 percent of those seeking IVF procedures in Turkey are between the ages of 38 and 60. Using this percentage, Turkey and the United States should have a successful pregnancy rate of 37.7% and 25.5 percent, respectively.

Cost-Effectiveness of IVF Treatment in Turkey vs USA

Using the average cost of $8,500 in Turkey and $12,400 in the United States, the cost per successful case amounts to around $22,500 in Turkey and $48,600 in the United States. If Turkey’s success rate falls by 10%, the cost-effectiveness ratio will drop to $25,000 in Turkey. Changes in effectiveness and cost parameters by 10% have little impact on Turkey’s cost-effectiveness ratios; the worst cost-effectiveness ratio becomes $27,600 if cost increases by 10% and effectiveness decreases by 10%. In the United States, however, a 30 percent increase in efficacy increases the cost-effectiveness ratio from $48,600 to $35,400.

As a result, even if all acceptable adjustments in overall cost and effectiveness are taken into account, Turkey’s ivf cost advantage remains at least 50% higher than the US cost-effectiveness.

Medical services in Turkey are around 30 to 50 percent cheaper than in Western Europe and the United States, however foreign patients’ significant desire for IVF procedures in Turkey is not only due to cost savings. In Turkey, clinical service quality indices and IVF success rates are higher than in the United States. When the cost per case is adjusted for the success rate, Turkey’s cost advantage becomes quite large. 

The demand for medical tourism in Turkey is projected to rise in the future, as overall quality indices of Turkish hospitals (particularly certified ones) have increased substantially over the years.

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