The best fertility clinics in Michigan are the ones that fit your treatment needs, not simply the clinics with the highest reported success rate or the shortest drive.

Laboratory quality, treatment options, patient volume and experience with gestational carriers can all affect your IVF care and, if you pursue surrogacy, the medical screening and embryo transfer process.

This guide compares featured Michigan fertility clinics using standardized 2024 SART data, while also explaining how to interpret success rates, compare costs and evaluate clinic experience with gestational surrogacy.

Because many fertility practices are concentrated in Southeast and Mid-Michigan, we’ll also point out where travel and outside monitoring may affect your options.

Fertility Clinics in Michigan

The Society for Assisted Reproductive Technology, or SART, is the primary U.S. professional organization dedicated to assisted reproductive technology.

Reviewing SART fertility clinic data gives intended parents a standardized source for clinic services, treatment activity and reported outcomes rather than requiring them to rely only on individual clinic marketing.

If you’re considering surrogacy, confirm that the clinic regularly works with gestational carriers and ask how often it performs those transfers.

The fertility clinic will review a surrogate’s medical history, decide whether she meets its medical requirements and manage the embryo transfer.

Featured Michigan clinics include:

• East Lansing Fertility Center (East Lansing)
• Gago IVF (Brighton)
• Michigan Center for Fertility and Women’s Health (Plymouth)
• Reproductive Medicine Associates of Michigan (Troy)

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

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

 East Lansing Fertility Center

Address: 2601 Coolidge Rd., Suite B, East Lansing, MI 48823
Phone: (517) 679-1410

East Lansing Fertility Center gives intended parents in Mid-Michigan access to IVF and several forms of third-party family-building care.

For intended parents considering surrogacy, ask during the consultation how the clinic handles gestational carrier screening, medical clearance and transfer scheduling.

Services offered:

• Donor egg
• Donor embryo
• Egg cryopreservation
• Embryo cryopreservation
• Female couple family building
• Male couple family building
• Mental health
• PGT
• Single men
• Single women

The East Lansing SART report provides the clinic-level reporting behind the success-rate data used here.

Frozen Embryo Transfer With PGT-A

Live Birth Per Single Embryo Transfer	Under 35	35–37	38–40	41–42	Over 42
Success Rate	47.6%	46%	42.1%	31.2%	25%

Frozen Embryo Transfer Without PGT-A

Live Birth Per Single Embryo Transfer	Under 35	35–37	38–40	41–42	Over 42
Success Rate	42.7%	5/16	1/6	0/0	1/4

Some SART results are displayed as fractions rather than percentages when the number of transfers is small. For example, 1/4 means one live birth occurred among four reported transfers.

That gives you less information than a rate based on dozens or hundreds of transfers, so treatment volume should stay part of the comparison.

Gago IVF

Address: 2250 Genoa Business Park Dr., Suite 110, Brighton, MI 48114
Phone: (810) 227-3232

Gago IVF is in Brighton, between the Detroit and Lansing areas. That location can make it a practical option for intended parents coming from several parts of Southeast or Mid-Michigan.

Services offered:

• Donor egg
• Donor embryo
• Egg cryopreservation
• Embryo cryopreservation
• Female couple family building
• Male couple family building
• PGT
• Single men
• Single women

The Gago IVF SART report provides clinic-level outcome data you can compare with the treatment category most relevant to you.

Frozen Embryo Transfer With PGT-A

Live Birth Per Single Embryo Transfer	Under 35	35–37	38–40	41–42	Over 42
Success Rate	46%	48.3%	34.3%	5/17	3/5

Frozen Embryo Transfer Without PGT-A

Live Birth Per Single Embryo Transfer	Under 35	35–37	38–40	41–42	Over 42
Success Rate	5/14	1/1	0/0	0/0	0/0

A 1/1 result means SART reported one transfer in that category and that transfer resulted in a live birth.

It doesn’t provide enough volume to treat the number as a reliable prediction for other patients.

Michigan Center for Fertility and Women’s Health

Address: 9365 Haggerty Rd., Plymouth, MI 48170
Phone: (586) 576-0431

Michigan Center for Fertility and Women’s Health is in Plymouth, making it accessible to many intended parents in western Metro Detroit and surrounding communities.

The clinic also lists outside monitoring among its services. If you live farther from Southeast Michigan, ask whether routine bloodwork or ultrasound appointments can be completed closer to home.

That can reduce the number of longer drives without changing where procedures such as egg retrieval take place.

Services offered:

• Donor egg
• Donor embryo
• Egg cryopreservation
• Embryo cryopreservation
• Female couple family building
• Male couple family building
• Mental health
• Outside monitoring
• PGT
• Single men
• Single women

The Plymouth clinic SART report provides the 2024 outcome reporting used for the tables below.

Frozen Embryo Transfer With PGT-A

Live Birth Per Single Embryo Transfer	Under 35	35–37	38–40	41–42	Over 42
Success Rate	51.2%	43.5%	35.3%	2/12	1/2

Frozen Embryo Transfer Without PGT-A

Live Birth Per Single Embryo Transfer	Under 35	35–37	38–40	41–42	Over 42
Success Rate	4/17	2/7	0/3	0/1	0/0

If travel is one of your main concerns, ask which appointments actually qualify for outside monitoring.

Procedures such as egg retrieval still need to take place through the appropriate fertility center.

Reproductive Medicine Associates of Michigan

Address: 130 Town Center Drive, Suite 106, Troy, MI 48084
Phone: 248-619-3100

Reproductive Medicine Associates of Michigan is located in Troy and serves intended parents throughout Metro Detroit.

Services offered:

• Donor egg
• Donor embryo
• Egg cryopreservation
• Embryo cryopreservation
• Female couple family building
• Male couple family building
• Outside monitoring
• PGT
• Single men
• Single women

The RMA Michigan SART report provides the clinic-level reporting used below.

Frozen Embryo Transfer With PGT-A

Live Birth Per Single Embryo Transfer	Under 35	35–37	38–40	41–42	Over 42
Success Rate	44.9%	45.5%	42.9%	6/19	2/8

Frozen Embryo Transfer Without PGT-A

Live Birth Per Single Embryo Transfer	Under 35	35–37	38–40	41–42	Over 42
Success Rate	49%	39.7%	4/18	0/3	1/3

For surrogacy, ask how many gestational carrier transfers the clinic performs in a typical year and who coordinates records review, medical clearance and communication with the surrogacy professional.

How to Compare Fertility Clinic Success Rates

Compare success rates using the treatment category that most closely matches your situation rather than choosing the clinic with the highest overall percentage.

Start with live birth rate.

Pregnancy rates show whether treatment resulted in a pregnancy, while live birth rates track the outcome through birth, making them more useful for comparing IVF results.

Age at egg retrieval and treatment type also affect the numbers. A frozen transfer with a PGT-A-tested embryo should be compared with similar transfers, not with donor-egg cycles or other treatment categories.

Treatment volume matters too.

A rate based on five transfers gives you much less information than one based on hundreds of transfers.

SART explains why IVF success rates vary among clinics and patient groups. Differences in age, diagnosis and the patients a clinic treats can all affect reported outcomes.

Use the data to narrow your options, then ask the reproductive endocrinologist which results are most relevant to your treatment plan.

Understanding the IVF Process

IVF creates embryos in a laboratory before an embryo is transferred to an intended mother or gestational surrogate.

A typical IVF cycle includes:

1. Fertility evaluation: The fertility specialist evaluates reproductive health and develops a treatment plan based on the intended parents’ circumstances.
2. Ovarian stimulation: Fertility medications stimulate the ovaries so multiple eggs can mature during the cycle.
3. Egg retrieval: Mature eggs are collected from the ovaries.
4. Fertilization and embryo development: The embryology laboratory fertilizes the eggs with sperm and monitors embryo development.
5. Optional preimplantation genetic testing: PGT-A may be used to evaluate chromosome number. PGT-M may be appropriate when embryos are being tested for a specific single-gene condition.
6. Embryo cryopreservation: Embryos intended for later use can be frozen and stored.

For intended parents pursuing gestational surrogacy, embryo cryopreservation allows embryo creation to happen before the surrogate’s transfer cycle.

Once embryos are available, intended parents can move through matching, medical clearance and legal contracts before the clinic prepares the surrogate for transfer.

Average IVF Costs in Michigan

IVF costs in Michigan vary by clinic, treatment plan, medication needs and whether additional services such as PGT, donor eggs or embryo storage are required.

A planning range of about $15,000 to $30,000 per IVF cycle when medications are included can be useful for early budgeting, but the advertised price of a cycle may not represent the full amount you’ll pay.

Common IVF expenses include:

Expense	What Can Affect the Cost
Fertility evaluation and monitoring	Testing required and insurance coverage
Ovarian stimulation medications	Medication type, dose and length of stimulation
Egg retrieval	Clinic fees, anesthesia and services included in the IVF package
Embryology and laboratory work	Fertilization method and laboratory services
Embryo cryopreservation	Number of embryos and clinic pricing
PGT-A	Number of embryos biopsied and laboratory fees
Donor eggs	Fresh or frozen eggs, donor program and related fees
Donor sperm	Sperm bank, vial cost, shipping and storage
Embryo storage	Length of storage and annual clinic or storage-facility fees
Frozen embryo transfer	Monitoring, medications and the clinic’s transfer fee

Some clinics bundle egg retrieval, fertilization and embryo culture into one IVF package. Others bill separately for anesthesia, ICSI, freezing, storage or genetic testing.

Compare what each quoted price actually includes before deciding that one clinic costs less than another.

Michigan currently has no statewide mandate requiring private health plans to cover IVF.

Employer benefits and individual policy terms therefore deserve a close look. A clinic can participate with your insurer while your particular policy still excludes IVF or related fertility treatment.

Before treatment begins, ask your insurer whether IVF is a covered benefit, whether the clinic is in network, how medications are covered and whether your policy has a fertility benefit maximum.

If you’re planning gestational surrogacy, ask whether the plan treats embryo creation differently when the eventual transfer will be to a gestational carrier.

Questions to Ask Before Choosing a Fertility Clinic

A good fertility clinic consultation should give you enough information to compare the clinic’s outcomes, experience, costs and fit for your treatment plan. Ask:

• “What is your live birth rate for my age group and treatment type?” Ask the physician to show you the data that most closely matches your circumstances. An overall clinic rate can combine patients receiving very different treatments.
• “How many IVF cycles do you perform each year?” Treatment volume gives you context for the clinic’s reported success rates and helps you understand how much experience sits behind those numbers.
• “How often do you perform gestational carrier transfers?” If you’re considering surrogacy, frequency tells you more than simply knowing that a clinic accepts gestational carriers.
• “Do you have an on-site embryology lab?” Find out where your eggs and embryos will be fertilized, cultured, biopsied if applicable, frozen and stored. If any services happen elsewhere, ask whether samples or embryos will need to be transported.
• “What optional treatments will increase my costs?” Ask about services such as ICSI, PGT, embryo biopsy, anesthesia, cryopreservation, embryo storage and frozen embryo transfers so you can compare what each clinic’s quoted price actually includes.
• “What happens if my first IVF cycle isn’t successful?” The answer can tell you how the physician evaluates an unsuccessful cycle, when the treatment protocol might change and which expenses you would need to pay again.
• “What are your medical requirements for a gestational carrier?” If you plan to use a surrogate, this is important to understand before matching. The fertility clinic makes its own medical-clearance decision before a surrogate can move forward with an embryo transfer.

How Fertility Clinics Work with Surrogacy Agencies

Fertility clinics and surrogacy agencies handle different parts of a gestational surrogacy case. The clinic manages reproductive medicine, while the agency coordinates services such as matching, screening logistics and case management according to its program.

The distinction is explained further in this comparison of agencies and fertility clinics, including the different responsibilities each professional takes on during a surrogacy case.

A typical process looks like this:

1. Choose a gestational surrogate. The agency facilitates the match based on its screening process and the preferences of the intended parents and surrogate.
2. The fertility clinic reviews the surrogate’s medical records. The clinic decides whether her history meets its gestational carrier requirements.
3. The surrogate travels to the fertility clinic for medical clearance. Even when she lives in another state, she generally travels to the intended parents’ clinic for the required in-person screening appointment.
4. Legal contracts are completed. The intended parents and surrogate work with their respective attorneys to complete the Gestational Carrier Agreement before the embryo-transfer process moves forward.
5. The embryo transfer takes place. The surrogate follows the clinic’s medication and monitoring protocol and travels to the clinic for the transfer.
6. The clinic monitors the early pregnancy. Once the fertility clinic releases her from reproductive endocrinology care, the surrogate transitions to her obstetric provider.

Your surrogate doesn’t need to live near your Michigan fertility clinic. Surrogacy cases frequently involve intended parents, surrogates and professionals in different states.

When a full-service surrogacy agency coordinates the case, required travel for the surrogate’s medical screening and embryo transfer is generally coordinated through the agency.

Qualifying travel expenses should be addressed through the program budget, escrow arrangements and Gestational Carrier Agreement, so intended parents should confirm how a specific agency handles those costs.

Talk With a Surrogacy Professional About Choosing the Right Fertility Clinic

When you’re comparing the best fertility clinics in Michigan, focus on the results relevant to your treatment, costs, embryology services and experience with gestational carriers.

Location matters too, especially if you’ll be traveling from outside Michigan’s major metro areas.

If surrogacy is part of your plan, your fertility clinic will also play a role in surrogate medical clearance and embryo transfer.

A surrogacy professional can help you understand how those clinic requirements fit into the larger process.

You can connect with a surrogacy professional for personalized guidance as you plan for IVF and gestational surrogacy.