Egg Donor Recipient Information & FAQs

All donors undergo extensive and rigorous screening in order to become eligible to donate. There is a series of tests done, including a physical exam, infectious disease testing, genetic testing, drug testing, and psychological testing. Learn more about the egg donor screening process.

We offer a significant amount of detailed information about each egg donor. Our program is one of the few to provide such a vast amount of information on each donor. Donor profiles can be found in our donor database, and include medical and personal history, donor essays, audio interviews, and childhood photos. Adulthood photos for donors are also available once you complete a Photo Consent Form, as a reasonable precaution to preserve the donor’s identity. Many recipients say this additional information and extensive screening are incredibly helpful in selecting the right donor.

Every donor on our website has frozen eggs available. Our standard cohorts range between 6-8 eggs each. Your dedicated Client Relations Specialist will tell you how many cohorts are available for a donor, and how many eggs are in each cohort.

Our egg donor database is regularly updated and only shows donors with current availability. If you are looking for a certain type of donor, we encourage you to contact your dedicated Client Relations Specialist so they can help you facilitate the search process..

If a donor is no longer listed on our website, they no longer have cohorts available for purchase. Still, we encourage you to contact us to let us know the donor you had your eyes on – there is always a chance that another recipient releases a cohort they had reserved or the donor returns for another cycle. While we won’t be able to share future cycle plans with you, we may be able to alert you should she have donor eggs available again.

To view adult photos create a user account here and complete the online Photo Consent Form.

Adding a donor to your “favorites” list makes it easily to find the donors you’re interested in when you return to our website, but it does not reserve the donor. For more information on a donor or to purchase eggs, contact us or select the “Email Your Favorites” button from the My Favorite tab to alert your Client Relations Specialist. Please note, donors can become unavailable quickly, so we strongly recommend contacting us directly if you are interested in placing a hold.

If you “favorite” a donor and they don’t appear on the website when you return, their egg donor cohorts are no longer available. If this happens, contact us, so we can let you know if their cohorts become available again in the future.

An ID Option egg donor is a donor who agrees to allow us to release her identity and contact information to the donor-conceived child, once that child reaches the age of 18 and he or she requests the information. You can learn more about our ID Option program.

Visit our Egg Donor Cost page for the most up-to-date pricing and financing options. You will remit payment to Fairfax EggBank once we receive the necessary documents from you. For some partnering IVF clinics, you will remit payment for your cohort directly to your clinic. Please ask your Client Relations Specialist for details regarding how to remit payment.

Yes, we work with a number of financing programs. You can view a complete list of our financing partners here on our Egg Donor Cost: Financing Options page. If you are considering another finance option, please present it to us and we will do our best to accommodate your needs.

Yes. We offer several discount options including a 3-Cohort Package, Family Solutions+, and we waive shipping fees for active military and veterans. Learn more about our discounts on our Egg Donor Cost page . Please contact us for additional information.

As a human tissue bank, Fairfax EggBank is not a healthcare provider and does not participate in insurance plans. We are unaware of any CPT, HCPCS, or other medical or billing codes for purchased donor egg cohorts on a stand-alone basis. As such, we will not be able to provide recipients with a code to submit to their insurance plans for reimbursement. You can check with your employer fertility benefit options to see if your eligible for coverage such as Progyny. Learn more about our Fertility Benefits Partners on our Egg Donor Cost: Financing Options page.

Yes! Fairfax EggBank is confident in the quality of its donor eggs, the expertise of its scientists, and the experience it has in freezing eggs. Contact us to learn more about our Embryo Development Guarantee.

The process of process of using donor eggs easy!

1. View our donor database (link) and register to see expanded profiles and start your donor search.
2. Contact us to be assigned a dedicated Client Relations Specialist who will be ready to support you and explain the process step-by-step. Upon verification that you’re a patient at an affiliate IVF clinic partner, your specialist will let you know how many donor egg cohorts are available for the donor(s) you’re interested in, provide any other details on the donor that may be available, and help you reserve a donor egg cohort once you’re ready to move forward. *If your clinic isn’t listed as an IVF clinic partner, let us know so that we can initiate a possible partnership with your clinic.
3. Complete the paperwork and payment process.
4. We ship your donor egg cohort to your clinic.

We reserve cohorts on a first-come, first-served basis. Please call us at 888-352-5577 or email us when you see a donor you’re interested in to secure a hold. Once we’ve confirmed you’re a patient of one of our IVF clinic partners, your dedicated Client Relations Specialist will walk you through the steps to secure a donor. This consists of completing paperwork and remitting payment for the donor egg cohort.

If you’re a patient of one of our IVF clinic partners, the process can take just a few days. If you’re working with an unaffiliated clinic, we will inquire about a possible affiliation, which can take anywhere from 6-8 weeks.
The length of time can vary based on some of the following: the clinic authorizing you to receive donor eggs, completing the paperwork and payment, the responsiveness of the recipient and clinic, any testing the recipient and partner need to complete, and the clinic’s availability to receive the donor eggs. We will work with you to the best of our ability to meet your anticipated timeline for transfer.

You can view our list of participating IVF clinic partners in your area. If your clinic is not yet listed, let us know and we will contact them so you can get started.

Partnering with Fairfax EggBank is fast and easy. Contact us and we will reach out to your clinic on your behalf to establish a potential partnership.

We ship to clinics in Canada, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Barbados, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, and Israel. Contact us to see if we can ship donor eggs to your clinic.

It will take place at your IVF clinic. Fairfax EggBank works with 450+ IVF clinic partners across the United States and globally, in Canada, Jamaica, Cayman Islands, Barbados, Brazil, Mexico, Australia, and Israel. These clinics have been specially trained in our proprietary lab techniques to achieve optimal success. If your clinic is not affiliated with Fairfax EggBank, contact us and tell your clinic that you are interested in proceeding with a frozen donor egg cycle using eggs from Fairfax EggBank and we will initiate a possible partnership with your clinic.

You still have the option to purchase a donor egg cohort. You’ll be able to purchase the egg donor cohort but keep it in storage at Fairfax EggBank until you and your clinic are ready to have it shipped. Please contact us for further details.

Contingent on the availability of cohorts, you have the option to purchase multiple cohorts. We offer a 3-Cohort Package, for a discounted price. Learn more about our egg donor costs, pricing, and discounts.

Fairfax EggBank uses the most advanced technology available, called vitrification, to freeze our donor eggs. In layman’s terms, vitrification can be considered a “flash freeze” method. Until a few years ago, egg freezing wasn’t very common, but when it was attempted, it was done through a slow freeze technique.

In our close laboratory analysis, we observe that eggs that have been vitrified are virtually the same as freshly retrieved eggs. They appear very similar under the microscope, they fertilize at nearly the same rate as fresh eggs do, and the resultant embryos grow and divide (progress) in the same manner.

In a frozen donor egg cycle, the egg retrieval has already taken place, with the eggs retrieved and vitrified for use in your future treatment. Recipients using frozen donor eggs do not need to synchronize their treatment schedule with the egg donor, as may be required in fresh egg donation cycles.

1.  A major benefit of using frozen donor eggs is the convenience of starting on your schedule. This means you don’t have to sit on a waiting list or work around the egg donor’s menstrual cycle or availability.
2. Fairfax EggBank recipients have the peace of mind of knowing that the eggs have already been retrieved and vitrified. So, any concerns about egg donor compliance, cycle cancellation, and response to medications are no longer issues.
3. Cost is almost always less when using frozen donor eggs and it is also more predictable. Many of the cost variables in a fresh cycle are not present in a frozen donor egg cycle. These include costs of egg donor medications and insurance, and the expense of making last-minute travel plans due to a donor’s response that could be faster or slower than predicted, amongst many others.

Learn more here.

Success rates for donor eggs vary by clinic. More than 450+ IVF clinics across the country use Fairfax EggBank for donor eggs, and our success rates are an average of those clinics. See our donor success rates.

Congratulations! Yes, news like this makes our day and validates the impact of our work. These outcomes are invaluable to help us maintain the highest donor standards. Please use our form to share your donor egg recipient success story or let your Client Relations Specialist know.

While you won’t be able to contact your egg donor directly, we can send a message on your behalf. Just contact your Client Relations Specialist at Fairfax EggBank to work it out!