Surrogacy is a type of third-party assisted reproductive technology (ART). In this procedure, sincere involvement in the medical process is the utmost requirement from both the surrogate and intended parents to obtain a successful result.
Following are some activities one needs to do during surrogacy planning:
- Finding a surrogacy attorney and negotiating a contract by state laws
- Finding a fertility clinic
- Coordinating with those professionals, as well as with the hospital where the selected surrogate plans to deliver
- Managing relationship with the surrogate, including talking about and handling finances
- Handling health insurance for oneself, surrogate and delivering children
- Finding appropriate counseling services for intended parents and surrogate
The surrogacy agency is the one-stop solution to perform all these multiple activities. Surrogacy Agencies are also known as surrogacy groups, centers, programs, or companies.
The right selection of the agency is very important to avail of all the facilities including medical, legal, and compensation support as well as identity protection.
What are the services Surrogacy agencies can provide?
Surrogacy agencies coordinate all the facilities that intended parents and surrogates want to complete the procedure, so they’re appreciated as a one-stop solution and one of the safest and least hectic ways to traverse a multifaceted journey.
While every agency will deal with diverse services, most will provide:
- Matching services to help intended parents connect with a surrogate that suits the individual requirement
- Screening services to let intended parents know that their surrogate partner is safe, healthy, and ready
- Counseling services for intended parents and surrogates to support the emotions intended parents may encounter and help them mediate surrogate partnership as needed
- Recommendations to required third-party professionals, such as lawyers and fertility clinics
- Professional coordination services so intended parents don’t have to pay attention to every detail
And so on.
Benefits of hiring surrogacy agencies
Although hiring a surrogacy agency is a more costly venture than doing every step individually. But intended parents will work with a surrogacy agency for a year or more to get a successful outcome.
- Guide intended parents through every step of the process, including help with health insurance administration, paperwork, financial management, and more.
- Agency can help find a surrogate that matches with intended parents’ requirements.
- Agency screen all prospective surrogates for intended parents.
- Agency can help you complete the process even if intended parents already have matched future surrogates.
- Agency can refer intended parents to trusted attorneys and clinics that intended parents will need to handle the medical and legal steps.
- Agency will coordinate with those professionals so that intended parents only need to have one primary point of contact.
- Agency provides counseling to intended parents and surrogates, as well as match mediation.
Reference:
https://surrogate.com/intended-parents/the-surrogacy-process/should-you-work-with-an-agency/
Ravi Sharma is a self-motivated, successful entrepreneur and has a solid experience in the fertility segment. and he is the director at ARTbaby Global (ARThealthcare). He is a pharmacy graduate with post-graduation in business administration and has 14 years of rich experience in the field of infertility segment. He loves to write about IVF, Surrogacy, and other ART (assisted reproductive technology) news, issues, and updates. He is a Pharmacy graduate (B. Pharm) and M.B.A (marketing).
His most recent success includes the successful launch of the medical tourism company, ARTbaby, which offers treatment options for infertility, egg donation, and surrogacy. He likes spending time with his family and writing about various aspects of IVF surrogacy and donating eggs.