Surrogacy Center of Philadelphia is a full-service gestational surrogacy agency based in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania. It works with intended parents throughout the Greater Philadelphia area, including Pennsylvania, New Jersey and Delaware, and also with intended parents living outside the United States. It is a for-profit organization and is currently active.
The agency was founded as a local sister agency to Hawaii Surrogacy Center. Andrea Hoshmand McAfee is listed as founder and director of both organizations. According to the agency, it limits the number of cases it takes on each year so that it can offer in-person, personalized support to the surrogates and intended parents it works with.
As a full-service agency, it handles the surrogacy journey from matching through delivery, including coordination with fertility clinics and hospitals, insurance and escrow arrangements, and ongoing case support. It does not run its own egg donor program. Intended parents who are LGBTQ+, single, or living abroad are among those it serves.
Surrogates apply from within the agency's regional footprint: applicants are asked to be residents of Pennsylvania, New Jersey or Delaware, and to have carried at least one prior pregnancy. The agency publishes its fee information, and its full eligibility requirements and compensation ranges appear in the tables further down this page.
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Reviews of Surrogacy Center of Philadelphia are mixed. Many reviewers, mostly from earlier years, describe a caring, knowledgeable team that answered questions quickly and helped find financial resources. A few more recent intended parent reviews are strongly negative, describing slow communication and feeling unsupported when concerns came up.
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Very Disappointing Experience As intended parents, our experience with this agency has been extremely disappointing. We paid for professional guidance, communication, and support throughout our surrogacy journey, and unfortunately, we have not felt that we received the level of service we expected. Communication has been a major issue. We have had time-sensitive concerns take more than two weeks to receive a response. When we have raised concerns, we have frequently felt dismissed or brushed off rather than supported. We have also had serious concerns regarding how situations involving our pregnancy have been handled. On one occasion, our gestational carrier did not follow doctor-mandated orders regarding bedrest. When she asked the agency whether she had done anything wrong, we were extremely concerned to learn that she was told she had not, because the agency did not want to cause her additional stress. We had to push the agency to address the situation more honestly. As intended parents, we found this extremely upsetting. We are currently dealing with another situation involving concerns about our baby’s well-being, and unfortunately, we again do not feel adequately supported or represented by our agency. Rather than ensure that our baby is born in a local hospital with a NICU to accommodate his complex medical needs, they would rather our surrogate feel comfortable in the hospital of her choice that does not have a specialized medical team in place or a NICU. I’m now having to make phone calls myself to medical professionals in order to get a written opinion in order for this simple change to happen. The agency is not taking this seriously and stated that if he needs medical care, he can be transferred to another hospital after his birth. In this case, he could die. They’re willing to jeopardize my son’s life for the “comfort” of our surrogate. We respect the medical autonomy of our gestational carrier. However, we also believe intended parents deserve an agency that will listen to their concerns, communicate promptly, and provide meaningful support when difficult situations arise. We also experienced significant concerns with a fertility clinic recommended by the agency, including repeated billing errors, concerns about medical decisions, and concerns regarding the relationship between the agency and the recommended clinic. These experiences further reduced our confidence in the guidance we were receiving. (Please see my review for In-Vitro Pacific in Oahu, Hawaii for more details.) To prospective intended parents: please remember that you are paying for a service. Ask very detailed questions about communication expectations, how the agency handles disagreements, how it supports intended parents when concerns arise, and whether agency staff have relationships with recommended providers. This has been one of the most important and vulnerable experiences of our lives. We expected our agency to provide communication, transparency, advocacy, and support, and we do not feel that our experience met that standard. Based on our experience, we would not choose this agency again and cannot recommend it to other intended parents.
View on Google (opens in a new tab)Working with Andrea was an awesome experience! We feel so fortunate to have been placed in such good hands as we began our long and uncertain journey of building a family. We were matched with a wonderful surrogate and her family, and we could not have asked for better partners through this entire process, as we are blessed to call them close friends, even after the completion of our journey. Andrea also set us up with excellent legal partners, who made contracts and legal paperwork a stress-free experience. Andrea was also able to secure customized insurance rates providing added financial security and assurances, as well as an easy-to-use escrow service, and complimentary financial consultation from an experienced advisor. Andrea’s coordination with our fertility clinic and hospital came through, ensuring the safe and healthy delivery of our baby boy, even as he arrived an unexpected 3 weeks early. We are grateful to the Surrogacy Center of Philadelphia for helping us to discover the joy of becoming fathers, and for making our dreams of bringing a child of our own into the world a reality. We thank Andrea for her guidance, responsiveness, experience; and most importantly, for matching us with an amazing, compassionate, and loving surrogate to bring our child into the world.
View on Google (opens in a new tab)My partner and I had a great experience with this agency. Andrea and her team know what they are doing. They also helped us secure a grant to help with our IVF costs. Their fees are really affordable and someone was always able to answer our questions quickly.
View on Google (opens in a new tab)They were so helpful helping me decide to work with my cousin as a surrogate as well as finding financial resources to get us started.
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Base compensation
$50,000 – $65,000
Published by the agency. Benefits and allowances are usually on top of this.
Requirements change — confirm with the agency before applying.
See which agencies fit youSurrogacy Center of Philadelphia accepts gestational surrogates between 21 and 42 years old.
Surrogacy Center of Philadelphia requires surrogates to have a BMI of 32 or lower.
Yes. Surrogacy Center of Philadelphia requires surrogates to have had at least 1 prior pregnancy.
No. Surrogacy Center of Philadelphia does not require surrogates to be raising a child of their own.
Surrogacy Center of Philadelphia's citizenship or residency requirement for surrogates: PA, NJ, or DE residents.
