Introduction

All prices are subject to change without notice and Bridge reserves the right to apply its current pricing at any time irrespective of the contents of this website. Every effort will be made to keep pricing information accurate. E&O.E.

Longer consultations are available. However, they must be pre-booked as a courtesy to those whose appointments may follow. Please see the notes on the last page.

• Total Cost

• Mammography for women over the age of 40 - additional cost

Cancellation Fees
Unless a minimum of 24 hours' notice has been given, all consultations are subject to cancellation fees for non-attendance. Cancellation fees are levied at the full rate for the consultation missed.

Ultrasound Scan by Doctor with Colour Doppler

'Back-up' Cryopreservation of Sperm
Includes storage for a maximum of 12 months, after which sample will be discarded

Laboratory Services post PESA
Examination and sperm retrieval from PESA samples.

• Bridge DonorShare waiting list joining fee

• Bridge DonorShare

• Donor Matching Fee

• Rent Transport Container

• Sperm - per cycle

• Import Fee for sperm from overseas
  (additional to the cost of the sperm and IUI fee)

• Stage One: Initial Screening Fee (in addition to the cost of IUI/IVF)

• Stage Two: Full Screening Fee (in addition to the cost of IUI/IVF and only undertaken after initial screening completed)

IUI under Sedation
at The Bridge Centre DCU

ICSI (Intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection)
Supplement per cycle IVF

Gamete Intra-Fallopian Transfer (GIFT)
Excludes the cost of drugs

Laparoscopic Tubal Embryo Transfer (LIFT)
Cost additional to IVF and ICSI

Interrupted IVF Cycles
When an IVF Cycle is interrupted for clinical reasons, the invoiced treatment cycle is credited and the following charges are applied for treatment only completed prior to the interruption:

Test development (including HFEA application if necessary)

PGD for Chromosome Imbalance in Translocation Carriers

Test development 

These prices exclude:

Other UK Charges

• Entry Fee – all programme options

• Egg Donor Pre-Treatment Fee – Options one and two

• Recipient Trial (‘Mock’) Cycle – all options

• Unmonitored Trial (‘Mock’) Cycle

• ICSI (advised when using donor eggs and/or donor sperm)

• HFEA fee – UK programmes only

• Full Cycle

• Half Cycle (only after one full cycle)

• Frozen Embryo Transfer

• Half Cycle if no Cryopreservation from Full Cycle

• Half Cycle if two Full Cycles completed

• Donor Sperm (IED)

• Entry Fee - all programme options

• UK Programmes FET

• UK Programmes - embryo thawing fee

• UK Programmes - HFEA fee

When an Egg Freezing cycle is interrupted for clinical reasons, the invoiced treatment cycle is credited and the following charges are applied for treatment completed prior to interruption:

• for 1 to 2 scans

• for 3 to 4 scans

• 5 or more scans

• plus the costs of any other diagnostic tests completed within the cycle.

• the initial freeze
• storage for one year
• consultation with Cryolaboratory Manager
• consultation with Medical Consultant
• consultation with Counsellor
• freezing of up to 4 separate samples
• storage in 2 separate storage tanks

Terms and Conditions
All services and products provided by Bridge and all applicable HFEA fees must be paid for in full, in advance. Please see Terms and Conditions.

For PDF of full Terms and Conditions Click here

For PDF of Storage Terms and Conditions Click here

Private Health Insurance and Third Party Payment
As noted above, all fees payable to Bridge must be paid in advance. This is the case even if a third party or any insurance company may be liable to reimburse, or otherwise pay, such amounts. Bridge will arrange for any claim forms to be signed in order to assist in reclaiming any amounts due from an insurance company, or any third party. Please discuss this with one of our Patient Accounts Managers who will assist you as appropriate.

Initial Consultations are forty minutes in length. If you feel that your particular needs are complex and that you may need a longer consultation, please inform Reception at the time of the booking, so that the extra time can be allocated.

Follow-up Consultations are twenty to thirty minutes in length. If it is anticipated that extra time will be needed, please ensure that Reception is aware at the time of the booking.

• IVF - in vitro fertilisation

• ICSI - intra-cytoplasmic sperm injection
  (injection of sperm into egg).

• IVF+ICSI - because ICSI cannot exist without IVF, the term 'ICSI' is commonly used to encompass both the procedures of IVF and ICSI. In this document the procedures have been listed separately in order to explain the costings.

• ET - embryo transfer

• PGS - pre-implantation genetic screening

• PGD - pre-implantation genetic diagnosis

• Cryopreservation - the process of freezing and storing tissue at optimal temperatures.

• Biopsy - the extraction of a small sample for the purposes of laboratory analysis for a tissue diagnosis.