Center of Reproductive Medicine, LLP, doing business as Shady Grove Fertility (SGF) Houston, is located at 1015 West Medical Center Boulevard in Webster, Texas — in the Clear Lake area of the Houston metropolitan region, approximately 25 miles southeast of downtown Houston near NASA's Johnson Space Center. The West Medical Center Boulevard address is in a professional and medical office corridor serving the communities of Webster, League City, Friendswood, Pearland, Pasadena, and the Bay Area Houston region. The entity structure here is notable: Center of Reproductive Medicine, LLP is the Texas licensed legal entity (a limited liability partnership of physicians), while SGF Houston is the operating brand of Shady Grove Fertility, a large multi-state fertility network based on the East Coast. This DBA relationship — the local LLP operating under the Shady Grove Fertility brand — is the standard structure by which SGF has expanded into new regional markets. For a broader view of fertility clinics in Texas, explore the state directory.
Physicians and Clinical Team
The physician team at SGF Houston Webster consists of board-certified reproductive endocrinologists who have completed three-year ACGME-accredited fellowships in reproductive endocrinology and infertility (REI). The Shady Grove Fertility network imposes standardized clinical protocols across its locations, meaning patients at Webster benefit from the evidence-based treatment guidelines developed and refined across SGF's large multi-site patient population.
SGF is known for a physician practice model in which multiple reproductive endocrinologists share care responsibilities across a location cluster, allowing for same-day or next-day appointment availability and 24/7 on-call coverage during treatment cycles. This shared-care model differs from solo-physician practices and is a common feature of large fertility network operations. Physicians practicing under the SGF brand may have training backgrounds from major academic REI fellowship programs.
Services and Treatments
SGF Houston (Webster) provides a comprehensive range of assisted reproductive technology services:
- IVF (in vitro fertilization) with full stimulation, monitoring, retrieval, fertilization, and transfer
- IUI (intrauterine insemination) with partner or donor sperm
- Egg freezing (oocyte cryopreservation) for elective preservation
- Frozen embryo transfer (FET)
- Preimplantation genetic testing — PGT-A (aneuploidy), PGT-M (monogenic), and PGT-SR (structural rearrangements)
- Donor egg IVF through the SGF donor egg program
- Donor sperm IUI and IVF
- Gestational carrier (surrogacy) coordination and legal referral
- Male infertility evaluation: semen analysis and referral for urologic assessment
- PCOS diagnosis and treatment
- Endometriosis-related fertility evaluation and treatment
- Recurrent pregnancy loss workup
- Oncofertility (fertility preservation before cancer treatment)
- LGBTQ+-inclusive family building services
- Minimal stimulation ("mini") IVF for appropriate candidates
- Ovulation induction with cycle monitoring for less complex presentations
Laboratory and Success Rates
Shady Grove Fertility operates centralized embryology laboratory infrastructure across its network. The Webster location works within the SGF lab ecosystem, which is designed to maintain consistent embryology quality across all SGF sites through shared protocols, instrumentation standards, and embryologist training programs. SGF has reported outcome data as part of its SART membership, and patients can access location-specific data through SART's public-facing clinic summary reports.
Patients should review the most current cycle-level data published by the CDC's ART Surveillance program and the SART Clinic Summary Report.
Patient Experience
Webster's location in the Clear Lake / Bay Area Houston corridor makes SGF Houston at this address particularly relevant for patients in communities southeast of the city: League City, Friendswood, Pearland, Pasadena, Galveston area, and the NASA-area suburban neighborhoods. The West Medical Center Boulevard address is in a professional medical district with surface parking and easy highway access from I-45 and the Bay Area Boulevard network.
SGF as an organization invests in patient experience infrastructure including online patient portals, flexible appointment scheduling, and financial navigation services. The shared-care model means patients are less likely to experience delays during critical cycle windows due to a single physician's schedule conflicts.
The Clear Lake and Bay Area Houston region has a substantial dual-income professional population, including aerospace and petrochemical industry workers, many of whom have employer plans that may include voluntary fertility benefits. Patients should review their benefits carefully before assuming costs will be out of pocket.
Considering At-Home Insemination?
Not every fertility journey begins in a clinic. At-home intracervical insemination (ICI) is a lower-cost, private option that suits patients with no known fertility diagnosis — including single parents by choice, same-sex couples, and people who want to try a few cycles before committing to clinical treatment.
At-home insemination kits like those from MakeAMom come with step-by-step instructions designed for donor or partner sperm. Kits are a one-time purchase that can be reused until conception succeeds, require no clinic visit, and arrive in plain, discreet packaging. Many patients use them as a first step while working toward a fertility consultation — or alongside ovulation tracking while they wait for an appointment slot.
If you have a known fertility diagnosis, have been trying for 12 months without success (six months if you're over 35), or your physician has already recommended IUI or IVF, a board-certified reproductive endocrinologist is the right next step.
Insurance and Financing
Texas does not have a state IVF insurance mandate. Patients in Texas pay for IVF largely out of pocket unless their employer plan voluntarily includes fertility coverage. Shady Grove Fertility offers a number of financial programs to address this barrier, including multi-cycle discounts, a shared-risk (money-back) program for eligible patients, and partnerships with fertility financing companies such as CapexMD.
SGF's financial counseling team can walk patients through pricing for each component of treatment — stimulation medications, monitoring, retrieval, laboratory, PGT, and transfer — so that patients understand the total anticipated cost before beginning. Patients with Houston-area employer benefits (including from NASA contractor employers and energy sector companies) should check whether their plan includes voluntary fertility coverage before assuming full out-of-pocket responsibility.
Frequently Asked Questions
What does "dba SGF Houston" mean in relation to the Center of Reproductive Medicine LLP entity? The Center of Reproductive Medicine, LLP is the Texas-licensed legal and billing entity — a partnership of licensed physicians organized under Texas law. "Dba" (doing business as) SGF Houston means this same entity operates under the Shady Grove Fertility brand for patient-facing marketing and clinical services. Patients will see SGF branding in the clinic, but their billing, medical records, and legal relationship are with the Texas LLP.
Does the Webster location share physicians with other SGF Houston locations? Shady Grove Fertility often operates a cluster model in which a team of physicians rotates across multiple nearby locations. Patients may find that their primary physician sees them at multiple SGF sites, and monitoring appointments may be scheduled at the most convenient SGF location on a given day.
What is the SGF shared-risk program? SGF offers a shared-risk (refund) program for eligible patients that provides a partial or full refund of the program fee if a live birth is not achieved after a specified number of IVF cycles. Eligibility requirements typically include age limits (often under 40), ovarian reserve thresholds, and other clinical criteria. Ask about program terms and eligibility at your initial consultation.
Is Bay Area Houston well-served by fertility clinics? The Clear Lake and Webster area has fewer fertility clinic options than the Galleria / Medical Center corridors in central Houston. SGF Houston at Webster is one of the most prominent dedicated fertility clinics in this southeastern Houston submarket, reducing the need for Bay Area patients to travel to the Texas Medical Center.