Ontario Fertility Program (OFP) Funded IVF Cycles Now at Pollin. No Waitlist! - Learn More
Understand what is covered, what is paid privately, and the financial support that may be available before you begin.
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We believe in transparent fertility pricing, so you’ll always know what to expect. The prices shown reflect what’s covered by OHIP, the core treatment cost, what’s included in your care, and any potential additional expenses—so there are no surprises along the way.
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There are programs available to help subsidize care, including:
✓Ontario Fertility Program (OFP)
✓Provincial Fertility Tax Credit
✓Federal Medical Expense Tax Credit
✓Pollin x The Modern Miracle IVF grant
✓Financing options
Our team will guide you through all of your options so you can start your journey with clear financial expectations.
Both are covered by OHIP for eligible Ontario residents.
Meet with a Royal College-certified REI, in person or virtually, to review your history and family building goals and receive a personalized testing plan.
Covered by OHIP
Meet in-person or virtually, for a detailed review of your medical and fertility records, previous diagnosis, treatment history, and comprehensive next steps.
Covered by OHIP
Prices below reflect Pollin’s current published fees. Your care team will confirm the services recommended for you and any applicable additional costs, before making any decisions, or starting any treatment. All prices in $CAD.
Physician-led stimulation, egg retrieval, fertilization, embryo culture and lab support.
Markham-based patients are required to travel to Toronto for egg retrieval and embryo transfer.
Included in price
✓Consultations
✓Fertility assessment
✓Dedicated care team
✓Cycle monitoring
✓Egg retrieval
✓Fertilization/ICSI
✓Embryo culture
✓EmbryoScope & CHLOE™ assessment
✓Fresh embryo transfer
✓Embryo freezing
✓First year of embryo storage
Additional costs
+ Medications: $6,000-$8,000+
+ Frozen embryo transfer (FET): $3,500 + medications
+ PGT-A genetic testing (optional): $5,150 for up to 5 embryos, then +$400 each additional embryo
+ Annual storage after year one: $900/year
+ Donor Sperm or Egg related costs (paid directly to sperm or egg bank)
+ Travel costs to Pollin Toronto
Utilized for those who have frozen eggs from an egg freezing cycle or from a donor egg bank, and are ready to use them. Eggs are safely thawed and fertilized with sperm (either known or donor) to create embryos. This is either followed by a fresh or frozen embryo transfer and/or embryo freezing.
Markham-based patients are required to travel to Toronto for fertilization of eggs (if using fresh sperm) and embryo transfer.
Included in price
✓Consultations
✓Fertility assessment
✓Dedicated care team
✓Cycle monitoring
✓Egg thaw
✓Sperm wash and prep
✓Fertilization/ICSI
✓Embryo culture
✓EmbryoScope & CHLOE™assessment
✓Fresh embryo transfer
✓Embryo freezing
✓First year of embryo storage
Additional costs
+ Frozen embryo transfer (FET) $3,500
+ FET medication: $2,000-$4,000
+ PGT-A genetic testing (optional): $5,150 for up to 5 embryos, then +$400 each additional embryo
+ Annual storage after year one: $900/year
+ Donor Sperm or Egg related costs (paid directly to sperm or egg bank)
+ Shipping costs of previously frozen eggs stored at another clinic
+ Travel costs to Pollin Toronto
For same-sex female and/or transgender male partners where one partner carries the pregnancy and the other provides eggs. The egg provider undergoes IVF to create embryos using their eggs and donor sperm, and then an embryo is transferred into the uterus of the partner who will carry the pregnancy.
Markham-based patients are required to travel to Toronto for egg retrieval and embryo transfer.
Included in price
✓Consultations
✓Fertility assessment
✓Dedicated care team
✓Cycle monitoring
✓Egg retrieval
✓Sperm wash and prep
✓Fertilization/ICSI
✓Embryo culture
✓EmbryoScope & CHLOE™ assessment
✓Fresh embryo transfer
✓Embryo freezing
✓First year of embryo storage
Additional costs
+ Frozen embryo transfer (FET) $3,500
+ FET medication: $2,000-$4,000
+ PGT-A genetic testing (optional): $5,150 for up to 5 embryos, then +$400 each additional embryo
+ Annual storage after year one: $900/year
+ Donor Sperm or Egg related costs (paid directly to sperm or egg bank)
+ Travel costs to Pollin Toronto
Uses carefully timed cycle monitoring—bloodwork and ultrasounds—paired with a natural or medicated cycle to ensure sperm is present at the time of ovulation.
Medication (if applicable): $100-$1,500 depending on protocol
Carefully selected and prepared sperm is placed directly into the uterus near the time of ovulation.
Markham-based patients are required to travel to Toronto for the IUI procedure.
Included in price
✓Consultations
✓Fertility assessment
✓Dedicated care team
✓Cycle monitoring
✓Sperm wash and prep
✓IUI procedure
✓Pregnancy test and monitoring
Additional costs
+ Medications: $100-$1,500 depending on protocol
+ Donor sperm costs (if applicable, paid directly to sperm bank)
+ Travel costs to Pollin Toronto
Preserve your fertility now for more options in the future.
Multi-step process that involves stimulating the ovaries with fertility medications to produce multiple eggs that are retrieved and then frozen.The eggs can be thawed in the future and combined with sperm to create embryos that are implanted in the uterus for pregnancy.
Markham-based patients are required to travel to Toronto for egg retrieval and cryopreservation.
Included in price
✓Consultations
✓Fertility assessment
✓Dedicated care team
✓Cycle monitoring
✓Egg retrieval
✓First year of egg storage
Additional costs
+ Medications: $3,000-$5,000+ depending on protocol
+ VIOLET™ report: $495
+ Annual storage after year one: $900/year
+ Travel costs to Pollin Toronto
Sperm freezing, or sperm cryopreservation, is the process of collecting, freezing and storing sperm. The sperm can be thawed and used in the future for procedures such as intrauterine insemination (IUI) or in vitro fertilization (IVF).
Markham-based patients are required to travel to Toronto for sperm collection and cryopreservation.
Included in price
✓Consultations
✓Blood work
✓Semen collection & analysis
✓1st year of storage
Additional costs
+ Medications if required
+ Any advanced sperm testing not covered by OHIP
+ Annual storage after year one: $900/year
+ Travel costs to Pollin Toronto
Fertility testing combines expert guidance with baseline and advanced tests to identify potential issues affecting conception and guide treatment or fertility preservation discussions.
✓Hormone profile bloodwork
✓Diagnostic ultrasound
✓Sonohysterogram ultrasound
✓Semen Analysis
Blood test used to estimate ovarian reserve.
Sperm test used to measure DNA damage.
Chromosome screening for up to five embryos, including lab fees.
Additional embryos: $400 each
Other embryo testing options: pricing available on request.
First year included in IVF pathways, egg thaw, egg and sperm freezing plans.
*Eggs/Sperm/Embryos will be stored at Pollin Toronto’s IVF lab.
First year included in IVF pathways, egg thaw, egg and sperm freezing plans.
Existing and future Pollin patients can start with a complimentary virtual discovery call, then access naturopathic and acupuncture services after their fertility consultation and work up.
20min
Get more information about a holistic approach to fertility by having a complimentary discovery call with Dr. Irena Bergmann, ND or Dr. Laura von Hagen, ND
1 hour 20 min (Virtual or In-Clinic Toronto)
The naturopathic initial consultation is your first step towards holistic health and well-being. We believe in the importance of looking at your health in its entirety. A naturopathic approach to fertility combines modern science with traditional and natural forms of medicine to optimize your overall health and well-being.
2 hours (Virtual or In-Clinic Toronto)
This initial consultation is for both partners to be assessed together, to better understand and optimize the health of the couple. We believe in the importance of looking at your collective health in its entirety. A naturopathic approach to fertility combines modern science with traditional and natural forms of medicine to optimize your overall health and well-being.
4 hours (Virtual or In-Clinic Toronto) - Dr. Bergmann only
This intensive one-on-one program enables a deep dive investigation to uncover comprehensive strategies and tools needed to optimize the success of IVF treatment. This session includes an extensive case review of all previous medical and fertility treatment history and diagnostics, a lifestyle and nutrition review and provides you with a personalized step-by-step pla
In-Clinic or Virtual (depending on treatment)
20min
30min
50min
1hour
During your follow up session, your naturopathic doctor will discuss your progress and get any relevant updates. Your questions will be answered, and the acupuncture treatment recommendation (if applicable), will be based on the updates given.
90 min (includes both pre and post transfer sessions)
This session provides an onsite 30 minute acupuncture session before and after your embryo transfer occurring in the comfort of your private transfer room.
Pollin Toronto only
1 hour 10 min
Acupuncture is the insertion of ultra-thin, sterile needles into specific acupuncture points on the body to achieve a therapeutic effect. These points regulate the way in which the body functions. Using the information gathered during the extensive initial assessment, a specific acupuncture protocol is set in place to support your fertility concerns.
Pollin Toronto only
40 min or 1 hour
40 min
1 hour
During your follow up acupuncture session, your doctor will discuss your progress and get any relevant updates. Your questions will be answered, and the acupuncture treatment will be based on the updates given.
Pollin Toronto only
90 min (includes both pre and post transfer sessions)
This session provides an onsite 30 minute acupuncture session before and after your embryo transfer occurring in the comfort of your private transfer room.
Eligible Markham-based patients may access funded IVF through Pollin Toronto.
Eligible patients can access one funded IVF cycle and one medically necessary fertility preservation (egg freezing) cycle. Pollin currently has no waitlist to access funded care.
Eligibility requirements:
✓Valid OHIP card required
✓Under the age of 43 at time of treatment
✓Have not already used a funded cycle
✓Is a patient of Pollin Fertility
Funding covers many core medical services, but not every cost. Before starting a funded cycle it is important to understand what to budget for, and they will vary depending on your treatment plan.
Covered
Your Pollin funded cycle includes:
✓Physician and nurse assessments, consultations, and counselling
✓Up to two attempts at cycle monitoring (bloodwork, urine tests, ultrasounds as required)
✓One egg retrieval and sperm collection, or one surgical sperm retrieval (using approved techniques)
✓Embryology, ICSI, assisted hatching, blastocyst culture
✓Freezing, thawing, and culture of embryos from that cycle
✓Single-embryo transfers of all embryos created in that funded cycle (fresh or frozen)
Not Covered
+ Medications and fertility drugs
+ Egg, sperm, or embryo shipping/storage
+ Donor sperm or egg costs
+ Psychological or social work counselling
+ Optional CHLOE™: AI Embryo Assessment & Quality Report for IVF
+ Optional VIOLET™: AI egg quality analysis report for egg freezing
+ Optional/add-on lab tests (e.g., PGT-A, PGT-M, EMMA/ALICE, etc.)
+ Advanced lab tools and technologies
+ Partners or donor services without OHIP coverage
+ Travel costs to Toronto for egg retrieval, sperm collection and embryo transfer
Explore programs and payment options that may be available to you to help offset the cost of treatment.
Eligible Ontario patients may access funded IVF and medically necessary fertility preservation. Pollin currently has no waitlist for funded IVF.
Beautifi financing can turn eligible treatment costs into manageable monthly payments, with a secure application and fast decision.
Pollin patients can apply for support through The Modern Miracle Foundation IVF grant program for up to $10,000 towards your treatment cost.
Many employer benefit plans include fertility treatments and medications as part of their annual coverage. Consult with your HR department or insurance provider to explore what may be available to you.
The Ontario Fertility Tax Credit and the Federal Medical Expense Tax Credit are available to you to help reduce the cost of eligible fertility care.
Markham-based patients are able to complete all their specialist consultations and follow-up consultations virtually or in-person at Pollin Toronto. *Diagnostic testing and cycle monitoring—blood work and ultrasounds—can be completed locally at Markham Women’s Imaging Centre, 39 Main St.
*sperm collection for testing requires travel to Pollin Toronto or requisition to local lab
Markham-based are required to travel to Toronto for egg retrieval, embryo transfer and cryopreservation/storage procedures with fully coordinated support.
Yes. Eligible Ontario patients can access funded IVF through Pollin Toronto, with local monitoring in Markham and procedures coordinated through Pollin Toronto.
Yes, you do need a referral to see a fertility specialist in Ontario, however Pollin can facilitate one for you through an OHIP-covered, virtual appointment with our partner GP if you do not have your own GP.
You can book an initial consultation directly through our website without a referral and a member of our care team will contact you before your appointment date to get you set up with one.
No, your fees and care plan are the same, whether you’re monitored locally, or in Toronto.
Book an OHIP-covered consultation and we’ll confirm the treatments recommended for you, and any additional costs before you decide.
