At a glance
CDC 2022- Transfers using a carrier
- 8% U.S. 4.7%
- Carrier transfers / yr
- ≈45 estimated
- Rank by carrier volume
- #45 of 450
- Services
- CarrierDonor eggEgg freezing
- Medical director
- Frank D. Yelian, MD, PHD
- SART · Lab
- No · Verified
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Life IVF Center
Reproductive endocrinology & IVF · Irvine, CA
Life IVF Center reports to the CDC as one program covering 2 locations. The figures on this page are program-wide; each location's doctors are listed below.
Life IVF Center is a fertility clinic based in Irvine, California, with a second office in Arcadia. It reported 2,385 cycles in CDC reporting year 2022; an estimated 45 of its 604 embryo transfers that year, 7.5%, used a gestational carrier.
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Share of transfers using a carrier, by patient age (2022)
Dark: Life IVF Center · Light: U.S. average
Three-year trend, share of transfers using a carrier
| Patient age | 2020 | 2021 | 2022 | U.S. 2022 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| <35 | 4% | 0% | 3% | 3% |
| 35-37 | 5% | 1% | 2% | 4% |
| 38-40 | 13% | 3% | 2% | 5% |
| >40 | 31% | 16% | 15% | 10% |
| All ages | 15% | 7% | 8% | 5% |
Total transfers (all egg sources, the CDC's denominator): 2020: 523 · 2021: 846 · 2022: 604
Volume estimate = the CDC's reported all-ages share of transfers that used a gestational carrier × the program's total transfers (the transfer count the CDC uses as that share's denominator). Where the CDC suppressed the all-ages share, the age-group shares are used instead and the tile says so.
For egg donation intended parents
Live births per transfer, donor egg cycles (2022)
65 transfers
Nearly all donor-egg transfers today are frozen embryo transfers — the embryo is frozen for genetic testing or scheduling whether the eggs were fresh or banked — so that is the figure to compare.
Share of cycles using donor eggs or embryos, by patient age
| Patient age | Life IVF Center | U.S. 2022 |
|---|---|---|
| <35 | 1% | 2% |
| 35-37 | 1% | 3% |
| 38-40 | 1% | 5% |
| >40 | 5% | 21% |
Egg freezing services: Yes
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Locations & doctors
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Reproductive endocrinologists
Frank Yelian, MD, PhD
Medical Director
Mandarin · NPI 1639119118
Jackson Wu, MD
Fertility Specialist
NPI 1083648687
Salman Okour, MD
Fertility Specialist
NPI 1265691505
Michelle Yu, MD
Fertility Specialist
Mandarin, Cantonese, Spanish, Other · NPI 1851302194
NPI Registry and the clinic's website. Listing is factual and public. Physicians may request a correction or removal at any time.
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Surrogacy in California →Questions about Life IVF Center
Does Life IVF Center do gestational carrier cycles, and how many?
Yes, though fewer than it did. The CDC's figures give an estimated 45 transfers with a gestational carrier in 2022, 55 in 2021 and 80 in 2020, out of 604 embryo transfers in 2022. That is 7.5%, above the figure across all U.S. clinics, about 5%; in 2020 the share was about 15% of 523 transfers.
What are Life IVF Center's results with donor eggs?
Life IVF Center reported 65 transfers in donor egg cycles for 2022. The CDC printed one live-birth rate for them: with frozen embryos from donor eggs, 52% of transfers led to a live birth (U.S.: 45%).
Do any Life IVF Center doctors speak a language other than English?
Yes. Frank Yelian speaks Mandarin Chinese. Michelle Yu speaks Cantonese, Mandarin, Fukien and medical Spanish, according to the biography on the clinic's website.
Sources
- CDC ART Success Rates: Clinic Services & Profiles (2022) — CDC National ART Surveillance System (NASS), 2022 reporting year, dataset ix4g-rt8v
- CDC ART Success Rates: Patient & Cycle Characteristics (2022) — CDC National ART Surveillance System (NASS), 2022 reporting year, dataset wrev-kwxu
- CDC ART Success Rates: Success Rates (2022) — CDC National ART Surveillance System (NASS), 2022 reporting year, dataset cchw-gdwa
- CDC ART Success Rates: Summary (2022) — CDC National ART Surveillance System (NASS), 2022 reporting year, dataset 9tjt-seye
- NPPES NPI Registry — CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System — physician roster
- CDC National ART Surveillance System clinic datasets for Life IVF Center (clinic ID 7), reporting years 2020–2022.
- NPPES NPI Registry, physicians with taxonomy 207VE0102X at the clinic's addresses.
- Life IVF Center website.
- Reporting year 2022 is the most recent published by the CDC.
- CDC datasets are published with a lag of several years, and the field has since seen many mergers, acquisitions and renamings. We update each clinic’s current name, network and offices from its own website as best we can, but details may be out of date (the CDC-registered name appears in the citation above). Clinics may request corrections at any time.
- The gestational carrier volume is an estimate from the CDC’s own figures for the reporting year shown — an indication of scale, not a current or exact count.
- Ivy journey counts are Ivy Surrogacy's own records.
- Ivy Surrogacy is an independent agency; this listing does not imply affiliation with or endorsement by Life IVF Center unless stated.
- Informational only, not medical advice; clinics are not ranked by success rate.
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