Gestational Surrogacy Fee

The cost of one cycle of Gestational Surrogacy at Bay IVF Center is $6,900, the two cycle plan is $13,800. This represents only the laboratory portion of treatment cost, as we do not bill for physician care at Bay IVF Center. This fee does not include the cost of medication and required prerequisites.

 

We hope that the Gestational Surrogacy treatment fee at Bay IVF Center will maximize the affordability of Gestational Surrogacy and by being able to plan for more than one cycle of treatment, also maximize the probability of a successful outcome.

 

Most patients can increase their cumulative pregnancy probability through more than one cycle of treatment. A treatment cycle represents completion of ovarian stimulation, egg retrieval and embryo transfer.

 

The following graph illustrates the increase in successful pregnancy probability if you decide to plan more than one cycle of treatment.

 

 

In this example, we used an arbitrary 35% successful pregnancy probability per Gestational Surrogacy treatment cycle. Your actual odds of pregnancy could be higher or lower.

 

The total Gestational Surrogacy treatment cost consists of the following four components:

 

• Cost of intended parents’ prerequisites
• Cost of surrogate’s prerequisites
• Medication cost
• Surrogate and intended parents' treatment fee

 

Some or all of the Gestational Surrogacy cost may be covered by your insurance.

 

Cost of Prerequisites

 

Bay IVF Center requires very few prerequisites. Both you and your surrogate can complete them within a short period of time and be ready to start your treatment cycle as soon as possible. If some of the prerequisites have already been done, they may not need to be repeated.

 

Intended Parents’ Prerequisites:

 

Intended father’s physical examination	$0
Intended mother’s physical examination	$0
Pelvic ultrasound	$0
Ovarian Reserve Assay (before each cycle of treatment)	$485
Semen analysis	$195
Semen cryopreservation	$415
Pathogen testing required by the State of California and FDA	$2,695

 

Genetic Testing (Optional)

 

All future intended parents should consider genetic screening (video) for over 100 most common genetic diseases. Please let us know at the time of your initial appointment at Bay IVF Center if you wish to have your blood sample sent for genetic screening. The cost of this testing is $380 per person.

 

Surrogate’s Prerequisites:

 

Physical examination	$0
Pelvic ultrasound	$0
Measurement of the uterus size	$0
Sonohysterogram	$0
Pathogen testing required by the State of California and FDA	$1,005

 

Cost of Medications

 

The typical cost is $2,500 to $3,500 or more per cycle of Gestational Surrogacy treatment charged by a pharmacy.

 

Treatment Fee - One Cycle - $6,900

 

Services covered in the one cycle fee:

 

• Estrogen and progesterone determinations
• Thawing of cryopreserved semen
• Preparation of semen sample
• Oocyte identification, embryo culture, including possible extended culture to blastocyst, and embryo transfer
• Serum pregnancy test(s)
• There is no charge for all your and your surrogate's office visits, physician ultrasound examinations, physician clinical monitoring required for Gestational Surrogacy ovarian stimulation and for preparation of surrogate's endometrial lining to receive embryos, egg retrieval procedure, analgesia, use of procedure room, physician portion of embryo transfer, and pregnancy ultrasound(s).

 

Your Gestational Surrogacy treatment may require supplementary procedures billed in addition to the regular treatment fee of $6,900:

1. Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection-ICSI ($1,900): The ICSI procedure may be needed for egg fertilization. You will be scheduled for partial or full ICSI if any of the following applies:

    

   1. The male partner has never caused a pregnancy or only with the help of ICSI.

       

   2. Low yield of high quality sperm: After thawing and preparing your semen sample for egg insemination, the total number of progressively (vigorously) motile sperm in the whole sample is less than 3 million.

       

   3. After thawing, the percentage of morphologically normal sperm is less than 5%.

       

   4. Less than three mature eggs were retrieved.

    

2. Assisted Hatching of embryos ($980): You will be scheduled for the Assisted Hatching procedure if either one of the following applies:

    

   1. History of one or more unsuccessful Gestational Surrogacy, IVF, or Soft-IVF™ treatments

       

   2. Follicle Stimulating Hormone (FSH) level of 8.0 or greater in the treatment cycle's Ovarian Reserve Assay

    

3. Cryopreservation and storage of embryos ($1,100): If you have “extra” embryos left after the embryo transfer, you may decide to cryopreserve and store them for possible future use. This fee includes up to 12 months of embryo storage.

If your treatment results in a pregnancy, your surrogate will require complex early pregnancy monitoring (typically 6 to 8 weeks) done at Bay IVF Center.  This care is not covered under the Gestational Surrogacy fee:

 

Office visits		$0
Pelvic ultrasound(s)		$0
Estradiol determinations (typically 4-6)	each	$160
Progesterone determinations (typically 4-6)	each	$210
Venipuncture (typically 4-6)	each	$30

 

Treatment Fee - Two Cycle Plan - $13,800

 

The two cycle plan provides for up to two Gestational Surrogacy treatment cycles, Assisted Hatching of embryos in the second treatment cycle, embryo cryopreservation (as needed), embryo storage and thawing with subsequent Assisted Hatching and transfer of any of the cryopreserved embryos.

 

Services covered in the two cycle plan:

 

First Gestational Surrogacy Cycle:

 

• Same as in Treatment Fee - One Cycle
  Plus 
• Cryopreservation procedure(s) of extra, non-transferred embryos (as needed)
• Storage, thawing, culture, and transfer of any cryopreserved embryos (as many times as needed)
• Assisted Hatching of any cryopreserved embryo
• Preparation of surrogate's endometrial lining to receive thawed embryos (as many times as needed)

 

Second Gestational Surrogacy Cycle:

 

Once all fresh and frozen embryos from the first Gestational Surrogacy cycle have been transferred, if these treatments did not result in an ongoing pregnancy, you will receive a second cycle of Gestational Surrogacy with the same services as outlined above plus Assisted Hatching of embryos.

 

Bay IVF Center fees contain no hidden costs (facility fees, anesthesia fees, room fees, processing fees, etc.).

 

As a courtesy, if you have insurance coverage for reproductive treatments, we will assist you with all necessary insurance claims. You will only pay the portion of the fees that your insurance does not cover.

 

If you have any questions regarding the Gestational Surrogacy treatment, Gestational Surrogacy fees, or to request an appointment, please contact us by phone at 650-322-0500, via email at care@BayIVF.com, or use the Contact Bay IVF Center form on this page.