Reproductive Sciences Medical Center, known as RSMC, is a physician-owned fertility medical center based in San Diego, California. It is not a stand-alone matching agency: its surrogacy and egg donation programs sit inside a full IVF practice, alongside diagnostic testing, in vitro fertilization and OB/GYN care. The clinic describes this arrangement on its website as a "one-stop" in-house model, in which medical treatment, donor and surrogacy coordination, and legal counsel are handled under one roof rather than divided among separate providers.
For intended parents working with a gestational carrier, a clinic like RSMC handles the medical side of the journey — fertility evaluation, embryo creation, screening and monitoring of the carrier, and the embryo transfer itself — while its in-house programs also take on matching and case coordination that intended parents might otherwise arrange through an independent agency.
RSMC is a for-profit corporation and reports its treatment outcomes to the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention as part of the national assisted reproductive technology clinic reporting system. David Harari, MD, a board-certified OB/GYN who completed his residency at Scripps Mercy in San Diego, serves as president and chief medical officer, and the practice lists additional reproductive physicians on staff.
The center works with intended parents who are LGBTQ+, single, or living outside the United States, and it runs an egg donor program in addition to its surrogacy services. Requirements for surrogates include U.S. citizenship, a no-smoking policy, and parenting at least one child currently living at home; the eligibility criteria, along with available fee, licensing and Better Business Bureau information, appear in the sections below.
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Reviews are mostly positive, with many reviewers describing friendly, caring staff and doctors who take time to answer questions. International patients often mention language support and help arranging travel, visas and housing. A smaller but notable group were unhappy, describing unanswered calls or emails, dismissive interactions and confusion over fees or guarantees.
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我原本因為台北 TFC 與 RSMC 有合作，非常認真考慮把我在台灣多次取卵累積、非常珍貴的凍卵運到 RSMC 做後續 IVF。但這次 RSMC 中文諮詢的經驗，讓我非常失望。 我43歲，完全清楚高齡自卵 IVF 的困難。正因如此，我才特別詢問：TFC 凍卵運到 RSMC 後的解凍存活率、外院凍卵 ICSI 受精率、43歲 blastulation rate、PGT-A euploid rate，以及是否協助 sperm donor。 結果對方沒有回答，第一個回覆竟是： 「43不易做出健康胚胎。」 我回答：「所以我才特別在乎實驗室的技術。」 對方卻直接說： 「建議您改策略了。」 接著建議 donor egg／代孕。 當我反問「你都還沒有回答我的問題，就要我改策略？」得到的回覆又是： 「身體自然衰退，這樣的結果是正常的。」 最後才告訴我： 「我們目前沒有特別去統計這些。」 甚至用「之前接了一個同年齡的，結果是相同的」來回答。 這是整段對話最讓我不能接受的地方。 我完全理解43歲成功率低，也充分理解其他生殖選項可能是值得討論的 Plan B。但在沒有回答我的問題、沒有提供實驗室數據、甚至沒有經過 RSMC 醫師正式評估前，一位諮詢人員第一句話就直接建議患者改變生育策略（像是完全否定了我這麼努力累積的多次取卵），我認為非常不專業，也缺乏同理心。 如果諮詢人員不知道這些數據，我完全可以接受。專業的回答應該是：「我幫您詢問 embryologist / lab director / physician 後再回覆。」而不是一再強調我的年齡與「身體自然衰退」。 這次諮詢讓我完全沒有建立起對 RSMC embryology lab 的信心。 我來詢問，就是因為我知道43歲很困難，所以更想知道：RSMC 的實驗室有什麼技術、經驗和數據，值得我把不可取代的凍卵交給你們？ 很遺憾，我沒有得到答案，反而感受到的是極度負面的態度與缺乏同理心。 希望 RSMC 管理層能認真檢視中文／國際患者諮詢人員的專業訓練。 English — For RSMC Management I seriously considered RSMC because my Taipei clinic, TFC, works with you. I asked your Chinese-speaking coordinator about oocyte warming survival, ICSI fertilization, blastulation and PGT-A euploid rates because I may ship irreplaceable frozen eggs from Taiwan to RSMC. Instead of answering or referring my questions to an embryologist, I was told essentially: “It is difficult to produce a healthy embryo at 43,” “you should change your strategy,” and later that “the body naturally declines.” I fully understand the challenges of IVF at 43—that is exactly why laboratory performance matters so much to me. My concern is the extremely negative tone, lack of empathy, and recommendation to change my reproductive strategy before my questions were answered or I was evaluated by an RSMC physician. This consultation gave me no confidence in entrusting my irreplaceable frozen oocytes to the laboratory. I sincerely hope RSMC management reviews the training and supervision of its Chinese-speaking/international patient coordinators.
View on Google (opens in a new tab)This company is intensely unethical. We were sent an email they were closing their Irvine location and began trying to transfer our tissue out, no one would respond to emails for up to five days. We were then given THREE DAYS notice as a final deadline to transfer out our tissue. Our embryos were held hostage with a last minute transfer out fee of $1200 which had doubled without us ever having been alerted. Convenient for if you are closing a location without proper notice. No one would write us back so we couldn’t even get an itemized receipt or timely help getting our tissue out by their last minute deadline. They didn’t have our freeze date recorded correctly. I would not trust this facility. It was a truly horrific experience. This is the kind of disorganization and cheap money-grubbing corner-cutting that leads to life changing mistakes.
View on Google (opens in a new tab)Cynthia gao is extremely rude and demeaning, she speaks over people and talks down on them. Her employment here makes me question the whole facility
View on Google (opens in a new tab)This is the worst facility I ever went to. Years later, I’m still traumatized by how incompetent the doctors were in helping me with infertility. Everything from lack of timeline coordination (I had to manage my own protocol with barely any help), to not getting ANY viable embryos because they didn't properly medicate me to collect enough eggs. You are just a number there. I almost gave up because of them. If you want a surrogate, this is a place to go. But if you want to have your own biological child, go somewhere else. I ended up at Kindbody and now thankfully have a 2 year old daughter.
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See which agencies fit youYes. RSMC requires surrogates to be raising at least one child of their own.
No. RSMC requires surrogates to be non-smokers.
RSMC's citizenship or residency requirement for surrogates: US citizen.
