Egg Donation Costs - Egg Donation Shared Risk Plan

Advanced Fertility Center of Chicago
Donor egg specialist clinic

We have numerous egg donors available now

We have offered a "100% guarantee" pricing option for IVF (for eligible couples) since 1997 - and we still offer it today. Very few clinics offer a 100% guarantee pricing option. Recently, another twist on in vitro fertilization pricing has appeared and is being offered by several clinics - a partial money back guarantee. These IVF pricing plans have been given various names, including shared risk IVF pricing, IVF cost warranty program, IVF cost protection plan, IVF refund plan, etc. Most centers that offer a risk sharing plans allow only 3 attempts using fresh embryos. Our program gives the couple up to 4 cycles with fresh embryos - plus all associated frozen embryo transfer cycles.

This arrangement allows the couple to get most of their money back if the cycle fails, and allows the clinic to recover some of the costs involved in performing the cycle. This differs from a 100% guarantee in 2 very important ways:

1. The fee for a successful cycle is considerably less
   
2. There is not a 100% refund if the treatment does not result in pregnancy

It might be considered an ideal payment option for those couples who are considering egg donation but are concerned that if they are not successful, they will not be financially able to pursue adoption. The refundable portion of the program fee after a failed cycle can allow couples to pursue adoption as the next alternative. This same logic applies to our 100% money back guarantee egg donation pricing option- but since the cost for a successful cycle is significantly higher with the 100% guarantee, some couples prefer the Shared Risk IVF Plan option.

It is important to understand that we can never guarantee a successful outcome. However, this plan limits the financial risk for the infertile couple if a live birth is not achieved. In other words, the financial risk is shared between the couple and the clinic.

The program includes as many as four ovarian stimulation cycles leading to an egg retrieval (plus any associated frozen embryo transfer cycles). The program must be completed within a maximum of 18 months. Each ovarian stimulation and fresh embryo transfer cycle can possibly result in leftover embryos for freezing for later use. There could be one, and sometimes more than one frozen embryo transfer cycles. The program is considered successful if it results in the birth of a live infant.

This payment option can not be used with health insurance paying for the in vitro fertilization services.

Egg Donation Shared Risk Plan Pricing Option

Only available if using one of our donors, or an outside donor that we have screened and approved

The price is not affected by the age of the female partner (donor egg recipient)

Program Eligibility (using donor eggs)*

To qualify for our 100% refund plan using donor eggs, a couple needs to meet the following requirements:

Tests needed to qualify:

1. Ultrasound to document that the uterus is normal enough to sustain a pregnancy and that the uterine lining will reach a minimum thickness of 8.0 mm (cost is $200).
2. Office hysteroscopy and mock embryo transfer to document that the uterine cavity is normal (cost is $425).
   • The female partner must be 49 or younger and be able to finish the program by age 50
   • Couples that have failed IVF with own eggs can be eligible. However, if they have failed 2 cycles using donor eggs they are not eligible for our guarantee plans.
   • The female partner must be a non-smoker in order to be eligible for the guarantee. We will accept a smoker if she quits entirely by 30 days prior to the start of the ovarian stimulating medications. This is documented with urine and/or blood tests.
   • Women that are significantly overweight (Body Mass Index over 34) are not eligible
   • Women with a hydrosalpinx are not eligible. However, they can have the hydrosalpinx surgically removed and then could qualify.
     
   • If IVF or egg donation has been attempted previously, copies of ovarian stimulation and embryology records must be submitted to us
   • The male partner must have a minimum of 100,000 motile sperm in his ejaculate
   • The couple must be willing to have ICSI, transfer 2 embryos, and cryopreserve any leftover potentially viable embryos (frozen embryos will always be used before another fresh attempt is considered)

*We reserve the right to approve or deny entry into our guarantee programs on a case by case basis.

Program Terms

The Program fee consists of a non-refundable (20%) and a refundable (80%) portion. If, after up to 4 completed fresh egg donation cycles no live birth has resulted (and all available frozen embryos have been transferred), the refundable portion will be returned to the couple. If you get pregnant and have a baby, we keep the entire fee.

We reserve the right to terminate the patient's participation after each completed cycle (this is very rare). Likewise, the couple has the right to terminate its participation after each completed cycle (after all fresh and frozen embryos have been transferred).

• If our center terminates the couple's 100% refund plan early (before the completion of all 4 fresh IVF attempts), the full 100% refund will be returned to the couple
  
• If the couple quits the program before they complete all 4 fresh egg donation cycles the refund will be 50% of the fee after 1 fresh cycle, and the full refund after 2 or more fresh cycles as long as all frozen embryos have been transferred to the female partner's uterus.

The program must be completed within 18 months from the day of the first egg retrieval. As indicated earlier, each cycle corresponds to an ovarian stimulation of a donor followed by the surgical aspiration of the donor's eggs, their fertilization in the embryology lab followed by the transfer of embryos. If pregnancy is not achieved, the couple will usually speak with the physician to discuss a "frozen" embryo transfer (if applicable), or a repeat fresh egg donation cycle (after all frozen embryos, if any, have been transferred).

Included services:

• Egg retrieval
  
• Fertilization
  
• All IVF laboratory services
  
• ICSI
  
• Assisted hatching if indicated
  
• Embryo transfer
  
• Embryo cryopreservation (freezing) and storage of frozen embryos for up to 12 months

Excluded services:

• Prescreening tests on recipient woman and her male partner
  
• Medications for both donor and recipient
  
• Consultations with the physician
  
• Pregnancy testing and pregnancy monitoring
  
• Embryo storage beyond the first 12 months
  
• Frozen embryo storage after you deliver a baby. We will begin charging a monthly storage fee beginning when you deliver the baby - or you can transfer those embryos to ReproTech for long term storage at lower fees.
  
• Any frozen embryo transfer cycles done with remaining embryos after the birth of a baby. These would be billed on a fee for service basis.

Medication Costs:

Donor medication costs are additional, unless the option is chosen that includes all donor meds ($3,000 additional per cycle). Medications usually cost about $2000-4000 for the egg donor. Some donors will require higher doses of medications to stimulate sufficient egg production. Higher doses means increased medication cost. The recipient woman will also need medications which usually cost about $500-1000.

Other pricing options

We also offer traditional fee for service egg donation cost as well as a pricing option with a 100% refund program using donor eggs if a live birth does not result.

Being a recipient of donor eggs from out of town can be done with one trip to our clinic

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