Everything written
about egg donation
is written by someone
selling it.
This is not. It is the federal record on how every US fertility clinic actually performs with donor eggs, and a straight account of what the process involves, what it costs you, and what nobody is certain about.
We are not a clinic, an agency or an egg bank, and nobody can pay to change a number on this site.
Why anyone uses donor eggs
A donor egg gives a patient of any age roughly the odds of a woman under 35 using her own. Set against a patient over 40 - which is most people who reach this point - it is the difference between 25% and 45% per transfer.
National figures, CDC Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Success Rates, 2022 final release. Frozen embryo transfers.
What it actually involves
Two to three weeks of injections, early-morning scans, and a day of sedation for the retrieval. The risks, the time, and what compensation is really paying for.
How to read a clinic's numbers
A 70% success rate on nine transfers is not better than 48% on four hundred. What the CDC actually publishes, and the traps in comparing one clinic to another.
The risks, stated once
OHSS, the retrieval itself, and the honest position on long-term follow-up, which is thinner than either side of this industry tends to admit.
Clinics doing the most donor cycles
Ordered by number of transfers, not by success rate. Volume is the more honest first sort: a high rate on a handful of cycles tells you almost nothing.
| Clinic | Location | Transfers | Live births |
|---|---|---|---|
| CNY Fertility Center | Syracuse, NY | 1,355 | 25.8% |
| Shady Grove Fertility-Rockville | Rockville, MD | 805 | 42.7% |
| San Diego Fertility Center | San Diego, CA | 684 | 66.1% |
| HRC Fertility-Pasadena | Pasadena, CA | 606 | 47.3% |
| ORM Fertility-Portland | Portland, OR | 532 | 56.6% |
| Boston IVF | Waltham, MA | 510 | 38.4% |
| Reproductive Medicine of New Jersey | Basking Ridge, NJ | 466 | 50.7% |
| Utah Fertility Center | Pleasant Grove, UT | 438 | 50.7% |