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Europe's second workshop for donor-egg treatment, and a border country whose clinics are the destination for more authorised cross-border patients than anywhere else in the EU. Czech fertility clinics publish euro price lists, run waiting times for donated eggs measured in weeks rather than years, and draw patients from Germany, Italy, Britain and the Nordic countries. The country runs no prior-authorisation system of its own for care abroad.

In the ESHRE registry returns for 2019 the highest egg-donation volumes in Europe came from Spain, Czechia and Russia — registry counts of cycles reported by clinics, not a market estimate. The older ESHRE taskforce survey put numbers on who was in the waiting rooms: of 1,230 cross-border patients surveyed across six receiving countries in a single month in 2010, 20.5% were being treated in Czechia, and legal reasons at home dominated the answers of German patients at 80.2% and Italian patients at 70.6%.

The Commission's 2022 data shows the other half of the country's position. Czechia authorised no prior-authorisation regime at all — it is one of eight countries with none — received 440 reimbursement requests from its own insured and granted 380, and was the single most common country of treatment in the EU for authorised cross-border patients, with 513, most of them from Slovakia.

Trade practice — what draws the fertility patient is anonymity and supply. Donation is anonymous on both sides in Czech practice, the donor pool is young, and the waiting time is short; this project did not read the Czech statute for this record and does not state its terms here. The distinction matters because the same patient would be turned away, or put on a years-long list, in the country she flew from.

Fertility clinics quote a programme rather than an operation: stimulation and laboratory work as one line, with medication, genetic testing and storage outside it. Donor programmes are sold with a guarantee attached to a number of embryos or attempts, which is a commercial term and not a clinical one. Payment is in euro, up front, and the treatment is timed to two short visits so that the patient can fly in for retrieval or transfer and fly home.

As of 16 September 2026 a Prague clinic lists IVF with the patient's own eggs from EUR 3,000 including basic laboratory methods, a guaranteed donor-egg programme from EUR 5,950, a frozen embryo transfer from EUR 990 and egg freezing for non-medical reasons from EUR 1,990, the last excluding medication and including two years of storage. Every one of those is a starting price: what the cycle costs depends on what the laboratory is asked to do.