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CDC 2022
Transfers using a carrier
3% U.S. 4.7%
Carrier transfers / yr
≈205 estimated
Rank by carrier volume
#8 of 450
Services
CarrierDonor eggEgg freezing
Medical director
Michael J. Levy, MD
SART · Lab
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Contact

9601 Blackwell Rd, 4th Floor
Rockville, MD 20850
(301) 340-1188Clinic website
#8 by gestational carrier volume · CDC 2022MD

Shady Grove Fertility (SGF)

Reproductive endocrinology & IVF · Rockville, MD

Shady Grove Fertility reported to the CDC as 2 programs; its 2 locations are listed here as one clinic. The counts on this page add the programs together; each location’s doctors are listed below.

Shady Grove Fertility (SGF) is a fertility practice registered with the CDC in Rockville, Maryland. This profile lists its Rockville and Towson offices, each with an IVF laboratory and each registered with the CDC as a program of its own. Together the two programs reported 16,397 cycles in CDC reporting year 2022; an estimated 205 of their 8,359 embryo transfers, about 2.5%, used a gestational carrier.

Gestational carrier cycles

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3%
of transfers used a gestational carrier · U.S. 5%
≈205
carrier transfers per year, estimated from the CDC carrier share of ~8,359 total transfers
#8
of 450 U.S. clinics by carrier volume, not success rate

These figures add up the 2 programs SGF reported to the CDC separately: Rockville and Towson. Shares by patient age and live-birth rates cannot be added up, because the CDC publishes them without the counts behind them, so they are shown for each program.

Share of transfers using a carrier, by patient age (2022)

Rockville

Dark: Rockville · Light: U.S. average

<35
3%vs 3%
35-37
2%vs 4%
38-40
2%vs 5%
>40
4%vs 10%

Towson

Dark: Towson · Light: U.S. average

<35
3%vs 3%
35-37
1%vs 4%
38-40
4%vs 5%
>40
3%vs 10%

Three-year trend, share of transfers using a carrier

Patient age202020212022U.S. 2022
Rockville
<352%2%3%3%
35-372%3%2%4%
38-402%2%2%5%
>405%5%4%10%
All ages2%3%3%5%
Towson
<351%2%3%3%
35-372%2%1%4%
38-402%4%4%5%
>402%4%3%10%
All ages2%3%2%5%
All ages, programs combined2%3%3%5%

Total transfers (all egg sources, the CDC's denominator): 2020: 7,486 · 2021: 8,596 · 2022: 8,359

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.

Donor egg cycles

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Live births per transfer, donor egg cycles (2022)

Rockville

Frozen embryo transfer, donor eggs (fresh or banked)
43%
U.S. 45%
Donated embryos
44%
U.S. 42%
Fresh donor eggs, fresh embryo transfer
58%
U.S. 52%
Frozen (banked) donor eggs, fresh embryo transfer
62%
U.S. 45%

805 transfers

Towson

Frozen embryo transfer, donor eggs (fresh or banked)
33%
U.S. 45%
Donated embryos
fewer than 20 transfers; the CDC reports no rate
U.S. 42%
Fresh donor eggs, fresh embryo transfer
64%
U.S. 52%
Frozen (banked) donor eggs, fresh embryo transfer
1–4 transfers; rate suppressed by the CDC
U.S. 45%

165 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 ageRockvilleTowsonU.S. 2022
<352%2%2%
35-372%2%3%
38-404%5%5%
>4022%22%21%

Egg freezing services: Yes

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Locations & doctors

Showing all 2 locations. Select a location to see its address, whether it has its own lab, and the doctors who practice there.

Reproductive endocrinologists

NPI Registry and the clinic's website. Listing is factual and public. Physicians may request a correction or removal at any time.

Surrogacy law in Maryland

No comprehensive surrogacy statute — but Maryland's birth registration law names gestational carriers and seals their information, so where the parentage order is in hand the certificate is registered correctly from the start.

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Nearby: Pennsylvania · Virginia · District of Columbia · Delaware

Questions about SGF

Does Shady Grove Fertility do gestational carrier cycles, and how many?

Yes. They are a small share of a practice whose two programs on this page reported 16,397 cycles in 2022. Added together, the CDC's figures give an estimated 205 transfers with a gestational carrier in 2022, 249 in 2021 and 162 in 2020, out of 8,359 embryo transfers in 2022. That is about 2.5%; across all U.S. clinics the figure is about 5%. By program: an estimated 164 of 6,566 transfers at Rockville (2.5%) and 41 of 1,793 at Towson (2.3%).

Which SGF offices have an IVF lab?

Both offices listed on this page have one. They are Rockville (9601 Blackwell Rd, 4th Floor) and Towson (901 Dulaney Valley Rd, Suite 616), both in Maryland.

What are SGF's results with donor eggs?

SGF's two programs reported 970 transfers in donor egg cycles for 2022, 805 at Rockville and 165 at Towson, and the CDC printed live-birth rates for each program separately. Rockville: 43% with frozen embryos from donor eggs (U.S.: 45%), 62% with fresh embryos from frozen donor eggs (U.S.: 45%), 58% with fresh embryos from fresh donor eggs (U.S.: 52%) and 44% with donated embryos (U.S.: 42%). Towson: 33% with frozen embryos from donor eggs and 64% with fresh embryos from fresh donor eggs.

Why does this page add together two CDC programs for Shady Grove Fertility?

The CDC registers the two offices on this page as separate programs, Shady Grove Fertility-Rockville and Shady Grove Fertility-Towson. This page lists them as one clinic, Shady Grove Fertility, and adds the two programs' counts together. SGF has further CDC programs in other places, among them Pennsylvania, Richmond, Atlanta, Tampa Bay, Colorado and New York; their offices are not on this page and their figures are not included.

Sources

  1. CDC ART Success Rates: Clinic Services & Profiles (2022) — CDC National ART Surveillance System (NASS), 2022 reporting year, dataset ix4g-rt8v
  2. CDC ART Success Rates: Patient & Cycle Characteristics (2022) — CDC National ART Surveillance System (NASS), 2022 reporting year, dataset wrev-kwxu
  3. CDC ART Success Rates: Success Rates (2022) — CDC National ART Surveillance System (NASS), 2022 reporting year, dataset cchw-gdwa
  4. CDC ART Success Rates: Summary (2022) — CDC National ART Surveillance System (NASS), 2022 reporting year, dataset 9tjt-seye
  5. NPPES NPI Registry — CMS National Plan and Provider Enumeration System — physician roster
  • CDC National ART Surveillance System clinic datasets for Shady Grove Fertility-Rockville (clinic ID 179) and Shady Grove Fertility-Towson (clinic ID 108), reporting years 2020–2022. Counts on this page are the sum of these programs.
  • NPPES NPI Registry, physicians with taxonomy 207VE0102X at the clinic's addresses.
  • Shady Grove Fertility 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 Surrogacy is an independent agency; this listing does not imply affiliation with or endorsement by Shady Grove Fertility unless stated.
  • Informational only, not medical advice; clinics are not ranked by success rate.
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