A single agency success-rate number is not the best way to understand a surrogacy or egg donation journey. Outcomes depend on embryo quality, egg-source age, sperm factors, clinic protocol, medical clearance, legal readiness, surrogate match fit, pregnancy variables, and whether more than one transfer is needed.
Why success-rate claims can be misleading
CDC publishes ART success-rate data for fertility clinics, not agency guarantees. Those numbers are built from reported treatment cycles and patient characteristics. They can help families ask better questions, but they do not turn a specific embryo transfer into a guaranteed result.
An agency may have strong coordination, screening, and matching practices, but it still does not control implantation, miscarriage risk, pregnancy complications, legal outcomes, or clinic treatment decisions.
What Patriot Conceptions can measure
Useful agency-level measures can include response time, candidate readiness, completed document collection, match progression, legal handoff completion, coordinator availability, and whether families understand the next step. Those are process measures, not medical success rates.
Process quality matters because a poorly coordinated journey can create delays, failed matches, avoidable stress, or unclear expectations. But process quality should be described honestly.
What your clinic should answer
Ask the fertility clinic about embryo quality, egg-source age, prior IVF history, recommended transfer plan, uterine evaluation, lab factors, medication protocol, and what the clinic sees as the most important risks in your case. If donor eggs, donor sperm, or donor embryos are involved, ask how that changes the estimate and timeline.
The clinic is the right source for medical probability, because it has the treatment records.
What the agency should answer
Ask the agency how it screens candidates, how it prepares profiles, how it handles match communication, how it escalates concerns, how legal and insurance handoffs work, and what happens if a match does not clear. These answers tell you whether the process is organized.
How to compare agencies without a misleading number
Ask for proof of process instead of only a headline percentage:
- What screening happens before a profile is presented?
- Who confirms medical clearance?
- How are legal risks identified early?
- How often are intended parents updated?
- What happens after a failed transfer?
- How are costs and reimbursements tracked?
- What claims are supported by public or internal documentation?
A better question than "what is your rate?"
Ask: "What parts of the journey can you control, what parts belong to the clinic or attorney, and how do you reduce preventable delays?" That question usually produces a more useful answer than a broad percentage.
If someone gives you a high success rate, ask what the denominator is. Is it per inquiry, per match, per embryo transfer, per pregnancy, per live birth, per family, or after multiple attempts? Different denominators can make similar real-world outcomes sound very different.
Next steps
This page is educational information only and is not medical advice. Ask your fertility clinic for probability estimates based on your embryos, diagnosis, donor path, and treatment plan.