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Sperm Specimen Pricing |
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Pricing
for US Donor Sperm Specimens
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UNIT (VIAL) PURCHASED $200 EACH (ICI or IUI format)
12-24 UNITS (VIALS) PURCHASED AT SAME TIME $180 EACH
Why
are our prices so reasonable compared to many other banks?
A better question may be why do some of the other banks
charge so much?
We work hard to minimize our overhead in order to offer
to you one of the best
values on the market. Providing our clients with high value is an integral part
of our business philosophy.
We understand that fertility health care and the use of donor sperm specimens
is expensive.
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| Current Imported Scandinavian Donor specimens are $300 per unit, see this link |
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All
US donor semen is provided in 1.2 cc cryovials. Volume
of the specimen will vary between 0.4 and 1.2 milliliters
depending upon the format and sperm concentration. All
vials are frozen to provide upon thaw a minimum motile
sperm concentration of 20 million per cc and may be
as high as 50 million per cc or more except for IVF units which provide a minimum motile concentration of 10 million per cc. We will replace
or refund any vial that is found defective from these
standards**. All donor semen is to be paid for in advance
of shipping unless billed through your physicians office.
This greatly reduces our overhead, which helps us to
keep our prices as low as possible. Click
this link to see our payment information page.
All
donor specimens are frozen with the use of a TYB (test
yolk buffer) cryoprotectant to aid in the recovery from
being frozen and to provide the sperm with the appropriate
environment. Our TYB freezing media is antibiotic free,
and uses glycerol as the cryoprotectant.
You
will find our return
and refund policies below. |
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All of
our sperm specimens, both ICI and IUI are fine and effective
for vaginal insemination. We do freeze specimens in IUI format
for those doctors that wish to perform IUI without futher
sperm processing in their office. If you are going to have
your health care professional perform IUI (intra uterine insemination),
then please check with them for their preferred format. Some
IVF centers performing ICSI now prefer ICI specimens, so it's
always best to check with the office personel that will be
working with the sperm. If you have opted for home vaginal
insemination, then either format works fine. |
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ICI
specimens may be washed in HTF(human tubal fluid)
media only, or completely un-washed. This format is appropriate
for home-vaginal, intracervical(ICI) use, or for IVF use.
These specimens would require further processing in order
to be placed into the uterine cavity. Volume 0.7-1.2cc |
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| IUI
specimens have been washed through a density gradient
and re-suspended in HTF media prior to freezing. These units
are IUI ready when thawed. Prepared for intrauterine insemination,
but also great for home-vaginal, intracervical or IVF use. These
units are concentrated into a lower/smaller volume but with
a higher motility. Volume 0.4-0.7cc. |
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| IVF specimens have lower motile sperm concentrations. These specimens are offered at about half the price of the ICI and IUI units and are perfect for those having IVF procedures done as very few sperm are needed by the embryologist to perform ICSI. At minimum ten million motile per cc, these units can also be combined to be used effectively for artificial inseminations as well, but single units will not provide optimum sperm counts for that AI use. |
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| Color of
frozen-thawed specimens may range from whitish to yellowish
to pinkish, depending upon the media that we are currently using
for our sperm processing. All of these variations are entirely
normal. |
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| All donors
are frozen in the above formats, but not all donors
will be available in all formats at all times. Please check
for availability. ICI specimens may be washed prior to insemination,
but initial sperm motility must be checked prior to washing.
We are not responsible for sperm mortality due to post thaw
handling or washing. |
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Return
Policy
If, for any reason you need to return un-used frozen donor units
to the lab, you must notify the lab of your intent, and complete the return paperwork (provided inside the shipping box), so that the returning
dewar is immediately checked for the returning units. If you
do not notify the lab of the returning units, you will assume
all risk of the units not being discovered and their subsequent
loss. No refund or exchange credit will be issued for lost units
when returned without notification prior to their arrival at
the lab. Call 1-800-786-5251. Upon arrival, the donor units
are returned to liquid nitrogen storage. If the units are to
be re-shipped to you for use in your next cycle, you will only
be billed a $40 handling fee for restocking the units into liquid
storage inventory, and subsquent re-shipping charges. If the
returned units are not re-shipped within one month, you will
start to incur storage charges at the rate of $35 per month
or $200 per year (for up to 12 units if our donor). Failure to pay any storage
charges incurred as they become due may result in the destruction
of specimens.
Refund
Policy
If
you have purchased units prior to the units coming out of quarantine,
and the units have not left our facility, we will make a complete
refund within one week of the original purchase minus a $20 admin/paperwork fee. If it has been
in excess of one week since original purchase of quarantined
specimens there will be a $40 inventory handling/restocking
charge.
If you keep pre purchased donor specimens (out of quarantine)
stored here, you can get a 75% refund if the units are turned
back over to us (returned) while the donor is still a listed
donor on our current donor listing.
If you return/release 6 or more units of pre purchased donor
specimens (out of quarantine) that have never left our facility
after the donor has been removed from our active donor listing (less than 2 years),
you can receive a 50% refund.
If a donor is no longer listed as a donor for sale, and you
return/release fewer than 6 units of pre-purchased donor specimens
(out of quarantine), there is no refund available.
Refunds for specimens that have been in private storage for more than 2 years (in any quantity) will be at the option of the sperm bank and price offered at that time, if any.
Once units leave our facility we are unable to refund or exchange
for any reason other than if units are proven to not meet
our guarantee guidelines**. We cannot re-sell any donor specimens
to another client once the specimens have left our physical
control for any amount of time under any circumstances (for obvious reasons, as well as FDA regulation).
**Refund or replacement can only be made when
proof of specimen failure is provided in written format and
the specimen is retained and available for return to our facility
at our option, and a written specimen analysis report is provided
to us detailing the analysis results performed by qualified
personnel. All claims for refund due to specimen quality must
be processed within 30 days of specimen receipt as we have
no control over outside storage facilities, and should be
reported to us as soon as is practical. Sperm count guarantees
apply only to specimens upon appropriate initial thaw and
prior to any additional handling or washing procedures that
may be performed at the descretion of the processing laboratory.
Qualified personnel include MDs, Med Techs, Embryologists,
or Clinical Laboratory Scientists licensed and qualified for
high complexity testing procedures through CLIA. We will not
make refund on specimens that are used for insemination that
then claim the specimen was faulty. We make every effort to
assure that our specimens are processed and shipped to provide
you with good sperm and in good condition. |
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