Our independence

The real price of IVF, before you walk in. Independent, every price sourced, built by people who went through IVF. No clinic can pay to be on The Fertility Index, to rank higher, or to be shown more prominently. This page is that promise in writing: what we will never do, where the numbers come from, how corrections work, and how the site is paid for.

What we will never do

1. Sell placement. No clinic, doctor, advisor or company can pay to be listed, ranked, featured, badged or hidden. Payment buys nothing here.
2. Run ads. No advertising, no sponsored listings, no paid content dressed up as information. Ever.
3. Sell you to a clinic. We don't sell leads or contact details, we don't take a fee for sending a patient anywhere, and we don't share your information with clinics, advertisers or data brokers.
4. Take referral fees. Not from clinics, not from doctors, not from advisors. Consultations are booked and paid directly with the professional; we are not a party to them.
5. Show a price we can't source. Every price comes from the clinic's own published page. Where a clinic publishes nothing, we say "not published" instead of estimating.
6. Change a correct number because someone asked or paid. Prices change when the clinic's own page changes - the same rule for every clinic.

How prices are collected

• Prices come only from each clinic's own published pages and rate sheets - never from estimates, quotes passed along by others, or third-party guesses.
• Every published price links to the clinic's page where we found it, so you can check our work.
• The clinic list comes from the CDC's National ART Surveillance System and SART rosters, with openings and closures checked by hand.
• Where a clinic publishes no price, we show none - and say so. Clinics that publish choose to, so published prices are not a random sample.
• Packages differ. We show what each published quote includes, and two clinics' prices are not always directly comparable.

The full method, including source rules and how medians are calculated, is in our methodology.

How corrections work

• Anyone can flag a wrong price or detail - a patient, a clinic, a journalist. Email hello@thefertilityindex.com with a link to the clinic's own published page.
• A correction needs a public source. We change a price when the clinic's own page says something different - not because we were asked, and never for payment.
• We fix confirmed errors within 7 days.
• Listings are corrected, not removed on request. A clinic can't ask or pay to be taken off the index. When a clinic closes, its listing comes down because it no longer operates - that is a factual update, not a favor.
• A clinic that publishes no price stays listed as "not published".

How the site is funded

I built The Fertility Index with my own money, no outside funding, so the numbers answer to patients and no one else. It is free to use, runs no ads, takes no referral fees, and makes no money today.

Who built this, and why

I'm Uri Greenstein. My wife and I went through IVF ourselves. The information we needed was scattered, hard to find, and hard to trust - and every decision felt like a guess. I believe everyone who wants a child should be able to have one, and that no one should have to make these decisions in the dark. So I built The Fertility Index: a free, independent place with everything in one spot - clinics, doctors, prices, and people to consult - so you can decide with the full picture.

That only works if you can trust it. A price index that clinics can pay to influence is just advertising - so independence isn't a feature of this site. It's the whole point.

- Uri Greenstein, hello@thefertilityindex.com

This page does not give medical or financial advice. Verify prices with your clinic before deciding.