Egg donation

Egg donation is medically indicated for patients with diminished ovarian reserve or premature ovarian insufficiency, patients whose egg quality makes IVF unlikely to succeed after repeated failed attempts with their own eggs, cancer survivors whose treatment affected fertility, patients with genetic conditions they do not want to transmit, and same-sex male couples building a family with a gestational carrier.

Every donor completes comprehensive medical and family history, infectious disease testing per FDA requirements, expanded genetic carrier screening, psychological evaluation, and ovarian reserve testing. Only a small fraction of donor applicants are accepted after full screening.

Recipients review donor profiles that include medical history, education, physical characteristics, and often photographs and personal essays. Match preferences are personal and can include physical resemblance, ethnic or religious background, education, and other criteria. We support both known and anonymous donation arrangements.

Success rates with donor eggs are among the highest in fertility medicine, because donors are young and screened for reproductive health. Per-transfer live birth rates with donor eggs are generally not meaningfully affected by the age of the recipient. Your physician will share specific numbers for your situation — including our own program outcomes — at consultation.

Our base fee for a donor egg cycle at Chelsea Fertility NYC is $19,500. That fee excludes medications, facility fee, and frozen embryo transfer unless specifically noted, and — depending on the arrangement — may also exclude donor screening, donor payment, or agency fees when the donor is recruited through an outside agency. Frozen donor egg cycles at $19,500 include the FET but exclude the agency fee for donor match and the frozen egg procurement fee. PGT-A pricing is available upon request. Our financial coordinator provides a full itemized estimate before you commit — call 212-685-2229 to get one.

We generally prefer fresh donor eggs. A fresh donor cycle often yields more than ten eggs, and typically costs less than purchasing a smaller frozen lot — usually around six eggs — from an egg bank. Fresh cycles also let us control the laboratory conditions end to end.

New York State requires that both donor and recipient are represented by separate attorneys before an egg donation cycle, if needed. We will tell you when separate representation applies to your arrangement.

It depends on whether you chose an anonymous or open-identity donor, and increasingly on consumer DNA testing, which has made true anonymity harder to guarantee regardless of the original agreement. Many clinicians and mental-health specialists now recommend some form of openness given the reality of at-home DNA tests.

From starting a donor search to embryo transfer is typically about three months.

Yes. Known-donor arrangements — often a sister, cousin, or close friend — require the same medical screening, psychological evaluation, and legal contracts as anonymous donation, and additional psychological screening for both parties to address the long-term family dynamics. We support this path when it's a good fit.