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The Egg Donor Center is exclusively an agency and does not offer any medical services. Our goal at The Egg Donor Center is to ensure that you have a safe, satisfying and successful egg recipient experience. Since the outcome of egg donation cycles is dependent on many different factors, we, however, cannot guarantee that every egg donors in our pool will show a normal ovarian response to stimulation, will produce eggs at all, will produce an adequate number of eggs/ embryos, will produce eggs/embryos of adequate quality or that every egg donation cycle will result in a pregnancy in the recipient. Moreover, pregnancies after egg donation are subject to the same complications of spontaneously conceived pregnancies, including the risk of miscarriage and ectopic pregnancy. Our process begins online and then is custom tailored to suit your very personal needs.
SELECTION CRITERIA FOR DONORS:
The egg donation candidates in our donor pool have undergone careful selection based on a detailed written questionnaire, which each applicant has to fill out.
STEP 1: SEARCH FOR THE OPTIMAL EGG DONOR
You can review our condensed egg donor profiles at your leisure, free of charge. On entry, you will be required to choose a login and password, making it easier to later return to your “Egg Donor Wishlist”. These condensed profiles offer brief donors summaries, including ethnic origin, height, hair color, eye color, education, talents, etc. to assist in your search.
STEP 2: REQUEST A DETAILED DONOR PROFILE
After previously having reviewed the condensed egg donor profiles, you may now request detailed egg donor profiles. These profiles contain over 20 pages of information including medical, genetic and family histories, education, interests, special talents and abilities, motivation for donating, the parents’ education and occupations, and other family characteristics. Please note that egg donors in our file may already be in cycle and for that (or other) reason(s) may not be immediately available for matching. It, therefore, is recommended to select more than one potential donor candidate. Final availability of a donor will only be checked once you have made a final choice in regards to a donor.
STEP 3: TENTATIVE DONOR MATCH
Once you have selected a tentative donor, we will check her immediate availability. Once your donor candidate has been confirmed in her availability, you are considered tentatively matched. We will then send you a “Matching Letter,” (describing some identifiable details of your donor), an informed consent form and a contract for signature, to document our mutual responsibilities. You will also receive at that point an itemized bill for our services. Please note that donor fees vary, depending on where the donor resides and/or unique characteristics. Please also note that travel fees vary, depending on where the donor resides and where the IVF cycle will be conducted. We at that point also document your specific cycle plans; i.e., name and address of your physician and planned timing of your cycle. Please note that egg donors can be “reserved” for only a maximum of 3 months, during which time the IVF cycle has to be completed. No egg donor reservation can be made until payment is received in full along with the forms and contracts.
Together with your signed contract, we at that time expect full payment for the donor cycle in accordance with The Egg Donor Center’s payment schedule. Your payment is placed in an escrow account for your cycle and will be only withdrawn once your egg donor has been retrieved (i.e., had an oocyte retrieval performed). Please note that an egg donor will be fully eligible to receive her full “donor compensation” once she has undergone egg retrieval. Should an egg donor cycle be cancelled prior to egg retrieval at no fault of her own, then the egg donor will be due only $1,500.00. If the cycle cancellation was the consequence of a fault of the donor she is due no fee at all. The Egg Donor Center reserved the right to determine the cause of each cycle cancellation and to dispense donor payments or lack thereof accordingly. In case of a cycle cancellation, you have a choice of receiving a refund on the unused amounts, still in escrow, or the funds can be left in escrow for a future cycle use. In the latter case, escrow funds have to be reconstituted.
With tentative donor match, a secure recipient web portal will be set up, which guarantees anonymous access. The portal will contain the up-to-date checklist of donor matches, screening tests, dates and results.
Your physician is responsible to perform all medical donor screening him/herself. Please note that under FDA guidelines some donor testing has to be performed within 30 days from egg retrieval. Close coordination of the donor’s medical testing and cycle management is, therefore, essential. Cycle management of the donor will be exclusively your physician’s responsibility.
STEP 4: PRECYCLE STEPS
Our egg donors and recipient couples sign standard informed consent forms, prepared by The Egg Donor Center. These consents follow standard language for such consents, recommended by professional organizations, and are mandatory for our egg donors and recipients to sign. We, however, strongly recommend that egg donors and egg recipients seek advice from a qualified attorney before signing these documents. Your attorney will also be able to help you review the consent forms, which your physician will ask you to sign.
All egg donors, selected through The Egg Donor Center, are required to be covered by insurance. Please see our "Services" page for more details.
STEP 5: LONG DISTANCE CARE AND TRAVEL
If your egg donor does not reside in the community, where the IVF cycle will be conducted, she may have to receive part of her care elsewhere. The Egg Donor Center will make the appropriate travel arrangements in coordination with the IVF center, managing the cycle. Costs for the donor’s travel can vary and will be charged to the recipient.
STEP 6: MEDICAL PROCEDURES
Please note that The Egg Donor Center will be in no way, whatsoever, involved in your medical treatment. Your medical treatment, including all of your and the donor’s IVF cycle management, are exclusively under the responsibility of your physician. The Egg Donor Center, therefore, will have no responsibility, whatsoever, for the outcome of your treatment and/or any complications, which may arise from the treatment to you or the egg donor. Upon verification that the egg retrieval has occurred, The Egg Donor Center sends the egg donor her egg donation compensation.
Some couples also elect to send an appreciation gift to their Egg Donor (e.g. flowers, letter), to arrive when she returns home after the retrieval. We are happy to assist with these arrangements. |
