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Consultation
A complimentary call with our team and a physician to understand your goals, answer your questions and clarify your journey timeline.
Every surrogate you meet at Physician’s Surrogacy is already medically and psychologically cleared by our in-house medical team, so the match you choose is the match you keep: no medical uncertainty, no cost uncertainty, no time uncertainty.
One path starts screening after you match and can add 6+ months. The other starts with a surrogate who is already cleared and ready for transfer.
Path one
Agency finds a surrogate
A third-party IVF clinic requests her records and testing
Months of administrative delays and specialist referrals
She loses patience and walks away
You lose your deposit and start over
Screening starts after you match and can add 6+ months.
Path two
Our in-house medical team completes her clearance
Zero administrative friction
She stays engaged and supported
100% medical clearance with zero restart costs
Your surrogate is already cleared and ready for transfer.
The surrogacy process with Physician’s Surrogacy has 7 steps, from your first consultation and match to embryo transfer, pregnancy and bringing your baby home.
A complimentary call with our team and a physician to understand your goals, answer your questions and clarify your journey timeline.
Choose the program that fits you and describe the surrogate you are looking for. From here, we manage your entire journey end to end.
You review the surrogate profile, whose medical and psychological clearance is already complete, and you meet her on a video call.
Once you and your surrogate both say yes, independent attorneys for each side draw up the gestational surrogacy agreement, which covers medical decisions, payments, contact preferences, insurance and the delivery plan, and you both sign before the medical steps begin.
Our physicians send your surrogate's records and imaging to your IVF center and hold a physician-to-physician consultation with your REI, so every question is answered before the cycle starts. Your center runs the transfer.
You receive an update after every appointment. Our OB/GYNs follow the first trimester with the surrogate's doctor and stay on call for the rest of the journey.
We handle the logistics of the birth with care: hospital arrangements, passports and visas for international parents, and concierge support at delivery. Your surrogate receives postnatal care for up to six months after the birth.
A complimentary call with our team and a physician to understand your goals, answer your questions and clarify your journey timeline.
You review the surrogate profile, whose medical and psychological clearance is already complete, and you meet her on a video call.
Once you and your surrogate both say yes, independent attorneys for each side draw up the gestational surrogacy agreement, which covers medical decisions, payments, contact preferences, insurance and the delivery plan, and you both sign before the medical steps begin.
Our physicians send your surrogate’s records and imaging to your IVF center and hold a physician-to-physician consultation with your REI, so every question is answered before the cycle starts. Your center runs the transfer.
You receive an update after every appointment. Our OB/GYNs follow the first trimester with the surrogate’s doctor and stay on call for the rest of the journey.
We handle the logistics of the birth with care: hospital arrangements, passports and visas for international parents, and concierge support at delivery. Your surrogate receives postnatal care for up to six months after the birth.
Choose a program. Nothing is due until your match is confirmed.
No hidden costs and no disputes. Once your program is set, your price is fixed, and every program includes in-house physician oversight, your surrogate’s compensation, trust account management, legal contracts, IVF coordination and prenatal testing.
Our standard program, matching to baby, at one fixed and flat price.
Matching to baby, with your surrogate’s IVF expenses included and our livebirth guarantee to protect your journey.
Matching to baby, with donor eggs, the livebirth guarantee and your surrogate’s IVF expenses included. The most complete program we offer.
Add-on
Add it to any program, at any stage of your journey, for our fastest path to baby: priority matching, a dedicated advisor and birth concierge from hospital to home.
Financing options are available through our leading lending partners. Financing Your Journey →
For full program details and pricing, book a complimentary consultation.
Physician’s Surrogacy is a physician-led program. Our in-house medical team of OB/GYNs and reproductive endocrinologists, with independent licensed clinicians for psychological clearance, clears every surrogate before her profile reaches you. Board-certified OB/GYNs manage the pregnancy, with everything under one roof.
“After signing on with a different agency for our first journey, paying their agency fee, and then being told we would have to wait 6-12 months for a Surrogate; my husband and I were ecstatic to find Physician’s Surrogacy for our second journey! They were able to match us with our ideal Surrogate within a week, and we didn’t pay any fees until we confirmed the match and were ready to move forward! I can’t believe more agencies aren’t like this! They have so many pre-screened Surrogates available, and it was hard to choose only one!“
“Not only was Physician’s Surrogacy able to order antenatal lab testing for my Surrogate Mother and baby, they also had one of their physician’s hop on a call with my Surrogate’s OB to review the test results! It was a seamless process, and they were able to explain everything to my wife and I so we could rest easy! It’s amazing how they can go that extra mile!”
More stories from our families. Stories and Testimonials →
Surrogacy in California is regulated and settled in law. Your names go on the birth certificate through a pre-birth parentage order, every family type is welcome, and your surrogate is protected by the same standards that protect you.
Read the full guide. The Complete Guide to Surrogacy in California →
| Country | Single women | Single men | Unmarried couples | LGBTQ+ | No medical indication needed | Parents need not be nationals | Double donor allowed | Parents of any age | Laws protect parents and surrogate | Embryo testing (PGD) |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| USA | Yes, medical reasons and gender selection | |||||||||
| CYPRUS | No* | Medical reasons only | ||||||||
| CZECH REPUBLIC | No* | Medical reasons only | ||||||||
| GEORGIA | No* | |||||||||
| GREECE | Yes, with a medical indication | No, over 50 | No* | Medical reasons only | ||||||
| INDIA | No* | |||||||||
| MEXICO | No* | Yes, medical reasons and gender selection | ||||||||
| RUSSIA | No* | Medical reasons only | ||||||||
| UKRAINE | Medical reasons only |
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*What could the consequences be of going through surrogacy in a country where surrogacy is not regulated?
An unregulated surrogacy program is a private agreement between the intended parents and the surrogate. The contract has no legal weight and cannot be enforced. There is no legal protection for the parents if the surrogate changes her mind and asks for custody of the baby: any dispute goes to the local family court, where the law supports the rights of the birth mother. With no legal framework, the local authorities can also change the rules at whim. In more than one country, an administration has declared overnight that surrogacy would be treated as human trafficking, and the police acted swiftly and severely against both intended parents and surrogates.
Our physicians send your surrogate’s records and imaging to your physician at your IVF center and review them together, physician to physician. Your IVF center’s physician runs the transfer on their own protocol, and if your embryos are already at a center, nothing moves.
We partner with leading IVF centers across the country, including centers here in San Diego and throughout California.
A woman who carries a pregnancy created through IVF with eggs and sperm from you or from donors. The embryo comes from those eggs and sperm, so she has no genetic link to the baby.
Anyone for whom pregnancy is medically risky or impossible: uterine factors, repeated IVF failure, certain heart or autoimmune conditions, or a history of complicated pregnancies. Same-sex male couples and single men also build their families through gestational surrogacy.
Single parents, married and unmarried couples, and LGBTQ+ families. We look at medical readiness and the legal and financial requirements, not marital status or gender identity.
No. Matching and legal work can run while your embryos are being created, at your IVF center or at one we connect you with.
Our surrogates apply from many US states and complete medical, psychological and background screening before they join the program. We then match you with a surrogate whose preferences, location and IVF center fit yours.
Most agencies keep a waiting list of 6 to 18 months before you meet a surrogate. We present surrogates who are already cleared and whose preferences fit yours, so there is no waiting list and no screening wait after you match.
Every program is quoted fixed and flat. Your quote depends on your surrogate’s state and its laws, your IVF center, your embryo status and any medical requirements of your own, and we walk through it with you on your consultation.
Intended parents often combine fertility loans, grants, savings and lines of credit. We partner with specialized lenders such as CapexMD, Prosper and SoFi, and we review the options with you on your consultation.
Every payment sits in an attorney-held trust account managed by a licensed third party and is released to your surrogate only as the contract says, so money never passes directly between you and her.
As much as you both want. Some families like regular calls and messages, others prefer periodic check-ins. Expectations are set during matching and written into your agreement, and the relationship often grows naturally over time.
At least one, for the birth. Many make one more to create embryos and meet their surrogate in person; embryos, eggs or sperm can be shipped to a US clinic instead.
Our physicians order the tests and read them with your surrogate’s doctor, the same day, and explain the results to you.
Success depends on embryo quality, your surrogate’s health and your IVF center’s experience. A surrogate who is cleared before you match removes the most common reason a cycle is cancelled.
No. The birth certificate lists only the legal parents. Our legal team prepares the court order so your names are on it and you hold full parental rights from birth.
Most want to help someone who cannot carry a pregnancy, often after seeing infertility in their own family or community. Many love being pregnant, and every surrogate is compensated fairly for the gift she gives.
Tell us where you are in your journey. A member of our intended parent team will reach out within one business day.
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