Egg donation/Carolinas Fertility Institute
Verified October 1, 2026
Carolinas Fertility Institute Egg Donor Pay & Requirements
Clinic
At a glance
Where and travel
- 7 North Carolina clinics
- Within travel distance to Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greensboro or Asheville
- Within travel distance required; travel/per-diem dollars NP
- In-house clinic
Pay
- First cycle ≥$5,500 per cycle
- Up to 6 cycles
Requirements
- Age 21-32
- Healthy weight/height ratio; numeric BMI not published
- Drug and nicotine free
- Genetic screening
- Psychological screening
- Good physical/emotional health
- Proven fertility desired but not required
- Stable social/sexual status
- Free of communicable disease
- Within travel distance to Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greensboro or Asheville
- Flexible schedule and weekday availability
- Barrier contraception or abstinence during process
- Maximum six retrievals per ASRM
Time
- Approximately 2-3 months screening to retrieval; weekday monitoring; ~10-12 nights of injections described in process material
Pay
- First cycle
- ≥$5,500first-cycle minimum
Donor-page amounts, verified October 1, 2026.
Outside the stipend
- Travel reimbursement
- Within travel distance required; travel/per-diem dollars NP
- Expenses covered
- Within travel distance required; travel/per-diem dollars NP; Donor not financially responsible for fertility medications; Health insurance policy covers additional costs if complication occurs; policy details/dollars NP; Consent forms required; legal dollar amount NP
Where and when
Where
- Headquarters
- Charlotte, NC
- Clinic locations
- Winston-Salem, NC, Greensboro, NC, Charlotte, NC, Asheville, NC, Wilmington, NC, Mooresville, NC, Cary, NC
- Travel reimbursement
- Within travel distance required; travel/per-diem dollars NP
- Travel covered
- Yes
Time
- Monitoring and downtime
- Approximately 2-3 months screening to retrieval; weekday monitoring; ~10-12 nights of injections described in process material
Do you qualify
Requirements
- Age
- 21-32
- BMI
- Healthy weight/height ratio; numeric BMI not published
- Also required
- Drug and nicotine free
- Within travel distance to Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greensboro or Asheville
- Good physical/emotional health
- Proven fertility desired but not required
- Stable social/sexual status
- Free of communicable disease
- Within travel distance to Charlotte, Winston-Salem, Greensboro or Asheville
- Flexible schedule and weekday availability
- Barrier contraception or abstinence during process
- Maximum six retrievals per ASRM
Screening
- Psychological screening
- Yes
- Genetic screening
- Yes
- Screening steps
- Medical history/risk assessment, TVUS/AFC, AMH, physical, Pap, STD/infectious disease, genetic carrier and psychological screening
How it works
Steps
- Matching
- In-house CFI third-party reproduction program
- Application
- EDC prescreen -> confidential donor profile -> team review -> in-office interview -> 3-4 screening appointments -> medication teaching -> stimulation monitoring -> outpatient retrieval
- Donor coordinator
- Third-Party Reproduction Program Team
Covered and limits
- Medications
- Yes
- Insurance
- Yes
- Legal counsel
- Yes
- Identity
- Anonymous program; names withheld unless court order, but total anonymity cannot be guaranteed due to commercial genetic testing
- Cycle limit
- 6
- Fresh cycles
- Yes
- Also offers sperm donation
- Yes
Apply and contact
- Website
- Agency site
- Phone
- (980) 256-2233
- Program type
- Clinic
Sources
- Primary donor LP: qualifications, process, compensation, anonymity · 2026-09-30
- Primary eight-step donor article: process/compensation cross-check · 2026-09-30
- Primary eight-site location index · 2026-09-30
- Primary Winston-Salem location · 2026-09-30
- Primary Greensboro location · 2026-09-30
- Primary Charlotte #1 location · 2026-09-30
- Primary Charlotte #2 location · 2026-09-30
- Primary Asheville location · 2026-09-30
- Primary Wilmington location · 2026-09-30
- Primary Mooresville location · 2026-09-30
- Primary Cary location · 2026-09-30
- EDC secondary Charlotte listing/pointer only · 2026-09-30
Last verified October 1, 2026.
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