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About Carolinas Fertility Institute - Charlotte
This is the monitoring office of Carolinas Fertility Institute (CFI) on Charlotte’s east side, at 2614 E 7th St, Suite C, Charlotte, NC 28204. It is one of eight CFI offices in North Carolina. Your workup and your cycle monitoring can happen here: fertility evaluation, ultrasound scanning, HSG to check the tubes and uterine cavity, IUI, semen analysis and sperm preparation, and the first infertility visit. Egg retrieval and embryo transfer do not happen here. Those go to the network’s Winston-Salem embryology laboratory, which the clinic describes as built to CAP standards and fitted with EmbryoScope time-lapse culture and LifeAire air handling. Note what that is: the clinic’s own wording. Its website shows no JCI or CAP mark for the lab, according to our research record.
Two Charlotte addresses carry the same phone number, (980) 256-2233. This page is the East 7th Street site; the other is at 131 Providence Rd, Suite 200, and has its own page in our directory. Our sources do not record different staffing, hours or booking routes between the two, so treat the choice of Charlotte office as a question for the appointment desk rather than a difference in what this practice can do for you.
Outcomes, and whose numbers they are. The success-rate row on this page is a network registration: SART ClinicPKID 2000036, listed as SART #0836, filed for the whole CFI group. This address performs no retrievals and no transfers, so there is no Charlotte outcome figure in existence to publish. The live-birth rates read 63.2% under 35, 49.2% at 35-37, 32.0% at 38-40 and 11.0% at 40 and over, across 2,695 cycles reported for that registration. Our record does not state which denominator those four bands use, so do not read them as per-retrieval or per-transfer figures without checking. Fresh-IVF and frozen-transfer columns in the same row are empty, so this page makes no claim about fresh versus frozen outcomes here.
You will not find an “above or below the national average” sentence on this page, and that is deliberate. The clinic row is labelled “SART 2024 Preliminary”, while the link stored beside it points at the 2023 reporting year. The national row in our dataset is labelled “SART 2023”, and the link stored with it identifies no clinic at all. With the clinic’s own reporting year unresolved, any direction of comparison would be a guess. The year matters here for a concrete reason: the finalized 2023 row for the same network reads 73.5, 55.8, 35.7 and 18.5 across the same age bands, over 2,817 cycles. Preliminary data also run low by design, because late-reporting cycles have not arrived yet. Ask the clinic which reporting year you are being shown before you compare it against another quote. We also do not divide 2,695 by a national per-clinic average: the national volume figures in our dataset come from mixed reporting years and mixed denominators.
Who you would see. The doctor count of 2 on this page means two physicians have profile pages under this address in our directory. It is not a claim that CFI sends only two clinicians to Charlotte: the practice’s team page carries 17 provider entries, including nurse practitioners and physician assistants. Dr. Tolga Mesen heads the Charlotte practice. He is board certified in obstetrics and gynecology and in reproductive endocrinology and infertility, took his medical degree at Wake Forest University, completed a four-year residency at Carolinas Medical Center in Charlotte and was elected chief resident, then subspecialty trained at the University of North Carolina-Chapel Hill. Dr. Audrey Garneau is also board certified in both: University of Tennessee medical degree, residency and chief residency at the University of Kentucky, fellowship at UNC-Chapel Hill. Both are named as Castle Connolly Top Doctors, a designation the practice materials define as the top 7% of US physicians. The network founder, Dr. Tamer Yalcinkaya, is described in those same materials as having practiced reproductive endocrinology for 24-plus years.
The 2020 date on this page is the figure recorded for the Charlotte opening, not a network founding year; our sources give none, and the 24-year figure above is one physician’s career length rather than clinic history. The 3.9 rating across 190 reviews is what our review data loaded for this address; the research record for the Charlotte site does not say which listing it came from.
Accreditations & Awards
- SART registration (ClinicPKID 2000036, SART #0836) — one network-wide entry covering all eight CFI offices, which is why the age-band figures exist publicly and can be pulled independently
- AIUM ultrasound accreditation — recorded in our sources as applying across CFI offices, so Charlotte scans fall under the same accreditation as Winston-Salem scans
- Castle Connolly Top Doctor — carried by Dr. Mesen and Dr. Garneau on their own profile pages
- Clinic-published, not an accreditation: CFI states it was named among the best fertility clinics in the US in 2026, and describes its EmbryoScope system as a first in the Carolinas. Both claims sit with the network and, for the equipment, with the Winston-Salem lab rather than this address
- Not held, per our research: no JCI or CAP certification mark is displayed on the clinic’s website
Why Choose Carolinas Fertility Institute - Charlotte
- Monitoring without the drive — follicle scans and blood work stay at 2614 E 7th St during stimulation; the trip to Winston-Salem is reserved for the procedure itself
- One laboratory for every office — wherever in North Carolina you register, embryos are handled in the same Winston-Salem lab, so lab quality does not vary by how far you live from headquarters
- A refund-linked package — the CFI Promise Program covers one fresh IVF cycle plus all frozen embryo transfers and refunds up to 50% of fees if there is no live birth. The clinic describes it as open to 60% or more of patients; eligibility criteria are not published
- Surgery arranged through hospital partners — da Vinci robotic procedures run in partnership with Novant Health and Cone Health, not on this floor
- Care that stays inside one network — testing, protocols and records move between the Charlotte office and the main campus without handing you to a different practice
- What you should ask first — how many visits to Winston-Salem your own protocol requires. Our sources do not publish stimulation length, monitoring frequency or the trigger-to-retrieval interval, so nobody can answer that from this page
IVF & Fertility Services
Carried out at this address, per our research record:
- Fertility evaluation — ovarian reserve assessment, including AMH testing and antral follicle counting, plus hormone workup
- Ultrasound monitoring — follicle tracking and endometrial assessment alongside a stimulated cycle
- HSG (hysterosalpingogram) — tubal patency and uterine cavity imaging
- IUI (intrauterine insemination) — washed sperm placed in the uterus, with partner or donor sperm
- Semen analysis and sperm washing — including samples prepared for referring physicians
- Infertility consultation and first visits — see a reproductive endocrinologist rather than a general gynecologist
Handled at the Winston-Salem campus:
- IVF — retrieval, laboratory work and transfer; the network service list also covers ovulation induction, artificial insemination and fertility preservation
- Counseling services — listed as a network offering
Our research for this address does not list PGT, donor egg or donor sperm programs, gestational carrier work, or on-site gynecologic surgery. Ask the clinic directly if any of those are part of your plan; the legal section below covers what North Carolina permits, not what this office offers.
Fees & Packages
There is no published price list. CFI publishes financing routes and a refund package instead of cycle prices, and our sources do not itemize which services sit inside a cycle fee and which bill separately — medication, freezing, storage and lab testing are the usual variables to ask about.
| Financing option | Terms published by the clinic |
|---|---|
| PatientFi | Monthly payments, no hard credit check, terms up to 84 months |
| Future Family | 0% APR for qualified patients, up to $50,000 |
| Lending Club | From $181 per month on a $10,000 plan at 8.99% APR over 72 months |
| Allegacy Federal Credit Union | Up to $10,000, credit score 680 or above |
| Truliant Federal Credit Union | $500 to $35,000, fixed rates from 8.50% APR |
The Promise Program is the only outcome-linked product in our sources: one fresh IVF cycle plus all subsequent frozen transfers, with up to 50% of fees returned if there is no live birth. Who qualifies is decided by screening criteria the clinic has not published.
Patient Journey
- Send your records ahead — prior charts and test results go to CFI before the appointment
- Register online — patient details and history are completed through the Artisan EMR patient portal
- First visit at East 7th Street — full fertility evaluation with a reproductive endocrinologist
- Agree the pathway — IUI and monitoring stay local; IVF moves your procedure dates to Winston-Salem
- Monitor locally — scans and blood work during stimulation happen at this office
- Retrieval and transfer at the main campus — egg collection, laboratory culture and embryo transfer, with the network’s described time-lapse and air-handling equipment
- Pregnancy testing and follow-up — the interval between transfer and the blood test, and how obstetric care is handed on afterwards, are not published in the material behind this page
Local Legal Framework
North Carolina’s position on assisted reproduction is described in our research only at the level of what is permitted in practice: IVF, ICSI, PGT, egg donation and sperm donation are all available under state law. No statute is cited in the material behind this page, so none is quoted here.
Egg and sperm donation are legal and used by clinics in the state. Our dataset carries a note that donors relinquish parental rights; no supporting statute is recorded, so parentage for a donor-conceived child is a question for a North Carolina family-law attorney before your cycle, not after.
Gestational surrogacy: our sources name no North Carolina prohibition and describe the environment as workable, but they cite no statute and no case. If you plan to use a carrier, have your own attorney review the agreements before treatment starts.
PGT faces no state-level restriction recorded in our sources; clinic policy and lab licensing do the governing.
LGBTQ+ family building: no state restriction appears in our sources, and this practice tags itself as LGBT-friendly. Coverage of same-sex fertility treatment is a separate question from legality and is not documented for North Carolina in the material behind this page.
Location
- Address: 2614 E 7th St, Suite C, Charlotte, NC 28204
- Phone: (980) 256-2233 (Charlotte offices); network line (844) 686-2233
- Second Charlotte address: 131 Providence Rd, Suite 200, listed on the same phone number, with its own page in our directory
