Fertility clinic
The Lexington Fertility Center
Lexington, KY · 4.2 mi away
Fertility clinic
Bluegrass Fertility Center
1760 Nicholasville Rd, Suite 501, Lexington, KY 40503
Bluegrass Fertility Center reported 143 ART cycles to the CDC for 2022, below the median of 258 cycles among the 4 CDC-reporting clinics in Kentucky. For patients using their own eggs, the CDC published a percentage for patients under 35 and fractions for over 40 (fewer than 20 intended retrievals); 2 bands have no published rate. The CDC lists donor eggs, embryo cryopreservation and egg cryopreservation among its services. It is not listed as a SART member.
CDC 2022 · live births per intended egg retrieval · patients under 35, own eggs
40%based on 55 intended retrievalsUS average 49.7%
How to read these CDC rates
- Most figures are the share of this clinic's 2022 cycles in one age band (counted per intended retrieval, retrieval or transfer, as each row says) that led to a live-birth delivery, as reported to the CDC. The number of cycles behind the headline rate is printed beside it; a rate built on few cycles can move a lot from year to year.
- A fraction such as “9 of 15” means fewer than 20 cycles; a dash means the CDC suppressed the figure or published none.
- The CDC advises that “comparisons between clinics should be made with caution. Clinics may have different rates because they have different patient populations or ART treatment methods.” A rate is not a measure of clinic quality and cannot predict an individual outcome.
Last reviewed: Dec 18, 2024, the date of the CDC record these figures come from. Source: CDC National ART Surveillance System (NASS), 2022 Final data, released December 18, 2024. See the CDC's guide to interpreting ART success rates.
Clinic details
| Address | 1760 Nicholasville Rd, Suite 501, Lexington, KY 40503 |
|---|---|
| Phone | 859-260-1515 |
| Medical director | James W. Akin, MD |
| CDC clinic status | Open |
| SART member | No |
| Lab accreditation verified by CDC | Yes |
| CDC clinic ID | 328 |
| CDC data | CDC data released Dec 18, 2024; fetched Oct 22, 2026 |
CDC report verified by James W. Akin, MD.
Services
- Donor eggs
- Embryo cryopreservation
- Egg cryopreservation
Services are the five the CDC asks every clinic to report. Clinics offer more; ask directly.
| Total ART cycles (2022) | 143 |
|---|---|
| Fertility preservation cycles (2022) | 10 |
| Pregnancies (2022) | 31 |
| Live-birth deliveries (2022) | 18 |
| Infants born (2022) | 22 |
Success rates by age (2022)
Patients using their own eggs, grouped by the CDC's four age bands. Each cell is the clinic's CDC-reported figure; the smaller “US” line is the national figure for the same cell.
| Measure | Under 35 | 35–37 | 38–40 | Over 40 |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| All patients using their own eggs | ||||
| Live births per intended egg retrieval | 40% US 49.7% | — | — | 0 of 7 US 7.7% |
| Singleton live births per intended egg retrieval | 30.9% US 46.7% | — | — | 0 of 7 US 7.5% |
| Live births per actual egg retrieval | 41.5% US 52.6% | — | — | — |
| Live births per transfer | 33.3% US 49.1% | — | — | — |
| Singleton live births per transfer | 25.8% US 46.2% | — | — | — |
| Average transfers per intended egg retrieval | 1.2 US 1 | 1.4 US 0.8 | 0.8 US 0.6 | 0.3 US 0.3 |
| Average intended egg retrievals per live birth | 2.5 US 2 | 3.5 US 2.8 | 13 US 4.3 | No live births reported |
| New patients (no prior ART) using their own eggs: cumulative outcomes | ||||
| New patients: live birth after 1 intended retrieval | 42.9% US 53.4% | — | — | — |
| New patients: live birth after 1 or 2 intended retrievals | 42.9% US 59.6% | — | — | — |
| New patients: live birth after all intended retrievals | 45.2% US 60.8% | — | — | — |
| New patients: average intended retrievals per patient | 1.1 US 1.2 | 1 US 1.3 | 1.3 US 1.4 | 1.7 US 1.6 |
| Number of cycles behind the rates (2022) | ||||
| Intended egg retrievals | 55 | 14 | 13 | 7 |
| Egg retrievals | 53 | 13 | 7 | — |
| Transfers | 66 | 19 | 10 | — |
“US” is the CDC national figure for the same measure and group. “—”: the CDC published no value. Its asterisk (*) means a reported sample size of 1 through 4, suppressed for privacy, along with any value that could be used to derive it. “No live births reported”: the clinic reported no live births in that group, so an average number of retrievals per live birth cannot be calculated (the CDC file shows 0). A value such as “9 of 15” is the CDC's own fraction: the CDC uses fractions for rates with denominators less than 20. It is not converted to a percentage.
Cycle characteristics (2022)
Context for the rates: how often cycles stopped early, and how much of the clinic's practice is frozen transfer, ICSI, PGT, fertility preservation and gestational carriers.
| Measure | Under 35 | 35–37 | 38–40 | Over 40 | All ages |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Intended retrievals with no eggs retrieved | 9.3% | 21.7% | 16.7% | — | 15% |
| Cycles stopped after retrieval, before transfer or banking | 1.6% | 0% | 10.3% | — | 3.9% |
| Cycles for fertility preservation | 5.9% | 10% | 9.1% | — | 7% |
| Transfers using a gestational carrier | 0% | 0% | 0% | — | 0% |
| Transfers using frozen embryos | 43.1% | 35% | 40.9% | — | 40.2% |
| Transfers with ICSI | 89.7% | 95% | 81.8% | — | 89.7% |
| Transfers with preimplantation genetic testing (PGT) | 1.7% | 5% | 9.1% | — | 3.7% |
“—”: the CDC published no value. Its asterisk (*) means a reported sample size of 1 through 4, suppressed for privacy, along with any value that could be used to derive it.
Reasons patients used ART (2022)
Diagnoses as reported to the CDC; a cycle can have more than one, so the shares add to more than 100%. This is the patient mix behind the rates above.
- Male factor 59%
- Endometriosis 12%
- Tubal factor 15%
- Ovulatory dysfunction 8%
- Preimplantation genetic testing 3%
- Diminished ovarian reserve 20%
- Egg or embryo banking 12%
- Recurrent pregnancy loss 5%
- Other factor, infertility 1%
- Other factor, non-infertility 3%
- Unexplained factor 10%
What the measures mean
- Intended egg retrieval
- A cycle started “with the plan to retrieve eggs”, counted whether or not any eggs were retrieved, so cancelled cycles stay in the denominator. Rates per intended retrieval are cumulative: they count live births from every embryo transfer within 1 year after that retrieval, fresh or frozen.
- Egg retrieval (actual)
- “A procedure to collect the eggs contained in the ovarian follicles.” Rates per actual retrieval are cumulative in the same way but leave out cycles cancelled before retrieval, so they are never lower than the rate per intended retrieval.
- Transfer
- “Placement of embryos into a woman's uterus through the cervix after IVF.” A rate per transfer counts each transfer on its own, so cycles that never reached a transfer are not in it. It is not always the highest rate: in 2022 the US figure for patients under 35 was 49.1% per transfer against 49.7% per intended retrieval. In the older bands, where many cycles never reach a transfer, it is usually higher (over 40: 25.4% per transfer, 7.7% per intended retrieval).
- Live-birth delivery
- “The delivery of one or more infants with at least one born alive.” A singleton live-birth delivery is “the delivery of a single infant born alive.”
- New patients: cumulative outcomes
- Patients with no prior ART, followed through one, two, or all of their intended retrievals, counting transfers of fresh or frozen embryos from those retrievals. This is the closest the report comes to “my chance of a baby from starting treatment”.
- Age bands
- The CDC groups patients using their own eggs as under 35, 35 to 37, 38 to 40, and over 40, because egg quality falls with the patient's age. Donor-egg rates are not split by age: the donor's age drives them, not the patient's.
Definitions follow the CDC ART glossary and the CDC's guide to interpreting success rates; see the guide to reading the report for worked examples.
Suggest a correction
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Nearby clinics
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More CDC-reporting clinics nearby
- Cabell Huntington Hospital, Center for Advanced Reproductive Medicine · Huntington, WV · 116 mi
Sources: data.cdc.gov (clinic record, phone, services and clinic profile; fetched Oct 22, 2026) ; data.cdc.gov (clinic profile, cycle counts and cycle characteristics; fetched Oct 22, 2026) ; data.cdc.gov (success rates; fetched Oct 22, 2026) . CDC data released Dec 18, 2024; fetched Oct 22, 2026. Contact details are as the clinic reported them to the CDC for 2022; they were not re-checked with the clinic.