Most pages about freezing sperm won't tell you the price until you book a consult. This one does. Below is every bank you can book through Hera, with its own published fees: what the freeze visit costs, what storage costs each year, and what's included in each.
Across the 3 banks whose fee sheets we hold, the first year — one freeze visit plus twelve months of storage — runs from $350 to $775, plus the $60 Hera fee. After that you pay storage only, which is typically a few hundred dollars a year. The spread is real: it depends on the bank, on whether storage is billed per year or per term, and on whether the freeze fee already includes a semen analysis and post-thaw check.
You produce a sample at the bank, it's evaluated, processed, divided into vials and frozen in liquid nitrogen. At most banks this is a per-visit fee. Many men bank two or three samples across separate visits, and additional visits usually cost less than the first.
Charged yearly at most banks, or in multi-year terms that work out cheaper per year. This is the cost that continues, so it's the one worth comparing hardest — a cheap freeze with expensive storage loses over five years.
Banks require infectious-disease screening (typically HIV, hepatitis B and C, and syphilis) before or around your first visit. It's billed separately, often through your insurance, and it isn't part of the freeze fee.
When you use the sample, expect a thaw or retrieval fee, and shipping if it's going to a different clinic. These are small next to freeze and storage, but ask about them if you may move cities or change fertility clinics.
6 banks across 4 states, each with its own fees below. We add banks as we confirm their fee sheets and that they'll take an outside physician order.
Choose a location below. A licensed physician on Hera's clinical team reviews and signs the order the bank needs, which is what usually forces a separate consult appointment elsewhere.
Your bank's screening panel has to be on file before or around your first freeze visit. Most banks accept recent outside results — if you've had the panel done lately, say so and you may not need it repeated.
Abstain from ejaculation for 2 to 5 days, produce the sample in a private room at the bank, and they handle evaluation, processing and freezing. If you want more than one sample banked, space the visits a few days apart.
Your vials stay frozen at the bank and you're billed for storage on the bank's cycle. Sperm frozen properly stays viable for decades — there's no shelf life you need to plan around.
Sperm banking is concentrated in a handful of cities, and we're adding banks as we confirm their fees and that they accept an outside physician order. Tell us where you are and we'll work on your area — and if you're freezing ahead of cancer treatment or surgery and need something fast, contact us directly and we'll help you find a bank that can take you this week.
Expect two costs: a freeze visit and ongoing storage. Across the banks on this page the first year — one freeze plus twelve months of storage — generally runs a few hundred to around eight hundred dollars, plus a $60 Hera fee for the physician order. After year one you pay storage only. Each bank's own figures are listed above, because the range between them is wide enough that an average would mislead you.
Decades. Sperm stored in liquid nitrogen at -196°C is biologically static, and there are healthy births from samples frozen more than twenty years earlier. Practically, the limit is how long you keep paying storage, not how long the sample lasts.
Most banks require a physician order, which is the usual reason men are told to book a consult first. Hera includes one: a licensed physician on our clinical team reviews and signs the order after you book, for a $60 fee.
Infectious-disease screening — typically HIV, hepatitis B and C, and syphilis, with some banks adding HTLV, chlamydia and gonorrhea. It's required by FDA rules for tissue storage, billed separately from the freeze fee, and most banks accept recent results from another lab.
It depends on what the sample looks like and what you might use it for. One good sample can be enough for IUI attempts; IVF or ICSI needs less. Many men bank two or three across separate visits so there's a margin. Your semen analysis at the first visit is what makes that call answerable.
Some sperm don't survive thawing — that's normal and expected, and it's why the bank runs a post-thaw analysis to check how your sample handles it. The surviving sperm are not damaged by having been frozen, and frozen sperm has been used successfully in fertility treatment for over fifty years.
Chemotherapy and radiation can reduce or end sperm production, sometimes permanently, so banking before treatment starts is standard advice from oncology and reproductive medicine bodies. It's time-sensitive: if this is your situation, contact us directly rather than booking online and we'll help you get in quickly.
Usually not for elective banking, though the bloodwork often is, and some plans cover fertility preservation before medically necessary treatment such as cancer therapy. The fees on this page are cash-pay prices, which is what you'd pay without insurance.
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