Identifying the best fertility clinic in Louisiana means looking at verified CDC data and finding the specific third-party reproduction services you need.

Review representative Louisiana clinic information to see how their services might impact your financial risk and overall timeline.

A surrogacy professional can help you prepare for each step when you reach out.

Fertility Clinics in Louisiana

The clinics featured in this guide are SART member clinics with laboratory accreditation through the College of American Pathologists (CAP) or The Joint Commission.

Unless otherwise noted, success rate data is based on SART’s 2024 clinic data.

Audubon Fertility

(New Orleans) | (504) 891-1390

Services

• Donor Egg, Donor Embryo
• Egg Cryopreservation, Embryo Cryopreservation
• Gestational Carrier
• HIV Patients
• Outside Monitoring
• PGT
• Single Women, Female Couple

Success Rates of Frozen Embryo Transfers by Age: With PGT-A 

Age	<35	35-37	38-40	>40
Clinic Success	60.0%	62.0%	62.5%	55.0%

Embryo Transfers with Donor Eggs

Live Births (Frozen Donor Eggs)

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How to Compare Fertility Clinic Success Rates

The best metric to look at when you are comparing fertility clinics is live births. Live birth rate measures the percentage of transfers resulting in a delivered baby.

Since a positive pregnancy test doesn’t guarantee a live birth, looking at live birth rates instead will give you a clear indication of how many clients successfully carry a pregnancy to term.

However, make sure to look at other factors like patient age and clinic volume. High-volume clinics handling difficult cases may show lower averages than selective boutiques, and clinics that focus on older patients will tend to have a lower success rate overall.

Understanding the IVF Process

IVF is a necessary part of surrogacy. If you don’t already have embryos ready, you will undergo the first few steps of IVF to create embryos before you match with a surrogate.

Your fertility clinic manages this entire process.

Your doctor starts by conducting a thorough evaluation to assess your baseline reproductive health.

Then you or your egg donor will administer daily injectable medications to stimulate the ovaries and mature multiple eggs. Your reproductive endocrinologist extracts these eggs during a minor surgical retrieval.

The clinic’s embryology team immediately attempts to fertilize them and monitors their cellular division. Families pursuing surrogacy often select preimplantation genetic testing (PGT-A) to ensure they only freeze chromosomally normal embryos.

The laboratory safely cryopreserves these blastocysts until you find a surrogate.

Average IVF Costs in Louisiana

You can expect an average IVF cycle in Louisiana to cost between $15,000 and $25,000.

The surgical retrieval and laboratory processing fees are typically $10,000 to $15,000 of your budget. Injectable fertility medications add another $4,000 to $7,000.

You’ll pay an extra $3,000 to $5,000 if you get genetic testing (PGT-A).

Third-party donor gametes (specifically eggs) will push these baseline costs much higher. Annual embryo storage runs $500 to $1,000.

Since Louisiana doesn’t require insurers to cover IVF treatment, expect to pay the full cost out of pocket.

Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Fertility Clinic

Use your initial consultation to learn more about the clinic before committing a large amount of your budget. Ask targeted questions to verify their expertise with gestational carriers.

• What is the live birth rate for patients in my age range?
• How many total IVF cycles do you complete annually?
• How often do your doctors perform surrogate transfers?
• Do you operate an on-site embryology laboratory?
• What specific add-ons will inflate my baseline costs?
• How do we proceed if the first transfer doesn’t work?

How Fertility Clinics Work with Surrogacy Agencies

After you create embryos, your medical provider and surrogacy agency divide responsibilities during the medical phase of third-party reproduction.

Agencies handle candidate recruitment and matching, leaving the clinic to manage medical clearance and embryo transfer.

Typically the timeline goes like this:

• You choose a fully pre-screened surrogate.
• Your clinic audits her previous pregnancy records.
• The surrogate flies to the clinic for a mandatory physical screening.
• Your attorneys draft and sign the legal contracts.
• The clinic manages the transfer and monitors her early pregnancy before releasing her to local OB care.

Talk With a Surrogacy Professional About Choosing the Right Fertility Clinic

Finding the right fertility clinic sets the trajectory for your entire surrogacy timeline. A surrogacy professional helps you align your medical needs with the right support system.

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