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s:cdc-art-2019-national-summary2019 Assisted Reproductive Technology Fertility Clinic and National Summary Report, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · link (read 2026-09-16)
read for CDC's own definitions of intended retrieval, actual retrieval, transfer and live-birth deliverys:unwto-2020-arrivals2020: worst year in tourism history with 1 billion fewer international arrivals, UN Tourism (World Tourism Organization), 28 January 2021 · link (read 2026-09-17)
arrivals down 74% in 2020, 1 billion fewer than 2019, an estimated USD 1.3 trillion in lost export revenues, 100-120 million direct tourism jobs at risk; Asia-Pacific -84%, Middle East and Africa -75%, Europe -70%, Americas -69%s:ishrs-fue-terminology-2019A 2019 Guide to Currently Accepted FUE and Implanter Terminology, International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery; dated 15 July 2019, editor Robert H. True · link (read 2026-09-17)
carries the Headington definition of the follicular unit, the 2018 renaming of FUE from extraction to excision, and the CFGE and CFGA measuress:cdc-art-surveillanceART Surveillance — national totals, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · link (read 2026-09-16)s:eshre-art-factsheetART fact sheet (v10, 2025), European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology · link (read 2026-09-16)
European and world figures for 2020, drawn from the EIM consortium and ICMARTs:asps-cosmetic-tourism-2024ASPS statement re Cosmetic Tourism, January 2024, Australian Society of Plastic Surgeons · link (read 2026-09-16)
the position of a professional body with a direct interest in where its members' patients are operated on; read as suchs:cdc-candida-aurisAbout C. auris, page dated 26 February 2026, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · link (read 2026-09-16)s:icmart-aboutAbout ICMART, International Committee for Monitoring Assisted Reproductive Technologies · link (read 2026-09-16)
data collection since 1989, incorporated in California as a 501(c)(3) in 2003, non-State actor in official relations with WHO, receives anonymised tabulated summaries from national and regional registries rather than clinic-level datas:isaps-aboutAbout ISAPS, International Society of Aesthetic Plastic Surgery · link (read 2026-09-16)
founded 1970 with the charter signed at the United Nations in New York; registered office at 19 Morgan Drive, Lebanon, New Hampshire; more than 6,000 members in 117 countriess:khidi-medicalkoreaAbout KHIDI — Medical Korea, Korea Health Industry Development Institute · link (read 2026-09-16)
government-affiliated institution under the Ministry of Health and Welfare; the registration system, registered hospitals and registered facilitatorss:mta-aboutAbout MTA, Medical Tourism Association · link (read 2026-09-16)
founded 2007, non-profit, West Palm Beach, Florida; describes government, provider and insurer memberss:cdc-art-aboutAbout assisted reproductive technology, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · link (read 2026-09-17)
ART covers treatments in which eggs or embryos are handled; 'ART does NOT include treatments in which only sperm are handled (such as intrauterine insemination)'s:ishrs-aboutAbout the ISHRS, International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery · link (read 2026-09-17)
'Since its incorporation in 1993'; 'an international, non-profit medical society'; 1,200 members representing 80 countries worldwide; headquarters at 675 Tollgate Rd., Suite G, Elgin, IL 60123 USA. A second page, ishrs.org/about-ishrs/, gives more than 1,100 members in 70 countries — the society publishes two counts.s:eshre-aboutAbout us, European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology · link (read 2026-09-16)
registered office at Nijverheidslaan 3, Strombeek-Bever, Belgium; guidelines and journals; the EuMAR monitoring projects:hfea-aboutAbout us, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-17)
'the UK's independent regulator of fertility treatment and research using human embryos'; set up by legislation as an arm's length body of the Department of Health; 'the first statutory body of our type in the world'; holds 'the largest register of fertility data in the world'; regulates over 75,000 cycles of fertility treatment every year; licenses, inspects and can amend, suspend or revoke a licences:asps-flyingAmerican Society of Plastic Surgeons guidance on flying after a procedure, as cited in the CDC Yellow Book, American Society of Plastic Surgeons · link (read 2026-09-16)s:shgm-yetkili-tesislerBakanlığımızca Yetkilendirilmiş Sağlık Tesisleri — the four published lists of authorised facilities, T.C. Sağlık Bakanlığı, Sağlık Turizmi Daire Başkanlığı · link (read 2026-09-17)
lists stamped 20 August 2026; the Ministry prints no total, so the counts here are the last sequence number in each lists:map-youth-care-bansBans on best practice medical care for transgender youth, Movement Advancement Project · link (read 2026-09-17)
26 states and one territory, as of 16 September 2026, with 6 states and one territory making it a felony; the tracker records court rulings blocking enforcement in Montana and Kansas at that date. An advocacy organisation's tracker, which names its own date and method.s:ishrs-unlicensed-techniciansBeware of Unlicensed Technicians Performing Hair Restoration Surgery, International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery · link (read 2026-09-16)
position statement dated 10 January 2024, updated from 18 September 2014s:ishrs-black-marketBlack Market hair restoration — the Fight the FIGHT campaign, International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery · link (read 2026-09-16)
the society's standing warning that unlicensed personnel perform substantial medical parts of hair restoration surgery; campaign launched November 2019; Operation Restore repairs botched works:who-blood-safetyBlood safety and availability — fact sheet dated 12 June 2026, from the WHO Global Database on Blood Safety, 2023 reporting year, World Health Organization · link (read 2026-09-16)s:asps-cost-breast-augmentationBreast Augmentation Cost, American Society of Plastic Surgeons · link (read 2026-09-16)s:asps-cost-buttockButtock Enhancement Cost, American Society of Plastic Surgeons · link (read 2026-09-16)
society's average surgeon fee; the page says it excludes anaesthesia, operating room facilities and other related expenses, and names no years:ishrs-2016-buyer-bewareBuyer Beware: Medical Tourism for Hair Transplants Can Have Costly Consequences, International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery 2016 · link (read 2026-09-17)s:ishrs-buyer-bewareBuyer Beware: Medical Tourism for Hair Transplants Can Have Costly Consequences, International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery · link (read 2026-09-16)
release dated 18 May 2016; names Turkey, and reports of Turkish technician groups operating in Germany, the Netherlands and Belgium under licensed doctorss:asa-cap-code-12CAP Code section 12 — medicines, medical devices, health-related products and beauty products, Committees of Advertising Practice / Advertising Standards Authority, United Kingdom · link (read 2026-09-17)
rule 12.1 objective claims must be backed by evidence, if relevant trials on people; 12.2 marketers must not discourage essential treatment for conditions for which medical supervision should be sought; 12.12 prescription-only medicines or treatments may not be advertised to the publics:cms-esrd-pps-2026Calendar Year 2026 End-Stage Renal Disease Prospective Payment System Final Rule (CMS-1830-F), US Centers for Medicare and Medicaid Services · link (read 2026-09-16)s:rcoa-gpas-day-surgery-2021Chapter 6: Guidelines for the Provision of Anaesthesia Services for Day Surgery 2021, published 31 March 2021, The Royal College of Anaesthetists (United Kingdom) · link (read 2026-09-17)
read in a browser because the page is refused to a plain fetch. Recommendation 5.25 (grade C, strong) on a responsible adult escorting the patient home and supporting them for 24 hours; 5.26 on private car or taxi; 5.24 on a 24-hour telephone number that is not an answerphone; 5.7 on preoperative assessment as early as possible in the pathway; 5.29 on the patient's copy of the discharge summarys:hfea-cafc-consultationChoose a Fertility Clinic consultation, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-17)
defines birth per embryo transferred as 'the percentage of the total number of embryos transferred that led to a birth' over 12 months, and birth per egg collection procedure as 'the percentage of egg collection procedures that led to a birth', including frozen transfers up to two years after collection; a measure per cycle started 'includes ovulatory stimulation stage's:fda-regenerative-consumer-alertConsumer Alert on Regenerative Medicine Products Including Stem Cells and Exosomes, US Food and Drug Administration · link (read 2026-09-16)s:ishrs-consumer-alertConsumer alert, International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery · link (read 2026-09-17)
page carries dates 18 January 2017 and 30 January 2026; 'increasing numbers of unlicensed personnel worldwide are performing substantial medical aspects of hair restoration surgery'; names no country and gives no figuress:nhs-cosmetic-surgery-abroadCosmetic surgery abroad, NHS (England) · link (read 2026-09-16)
read for aftercare responsibility, flying intervals and the statement on travel insurances:hfea-costs-fundingCosts and funding, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-16)
the regulator declines to publish a price and says clinics set their owns:dignitas-costsCosts of an accompanied suicide, DIGNITAS, Forch, Switzerland · link (read 2026-09-16)s:dicg-aboutDeclaration of Istanbul Custodian Group, Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group · link (read 2026-09-16)
Custodian Group formed 2010, sponsored by The Transplantation Society and the International Society of Nephrology, endorsed by more than 80 professional organisations, 2018 edition of the Declarations:hfea-donating-eggsDonating your eggs, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-16)s:hfea-donating-spermDonating your sperm, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-16)s:hfea-egg-freezingEgg freezing, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-16)
carries the 55-year storage limit and the regulator's own average UK costs:doi-endorsementsEndorsements, Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group · link (read 2026-09-17)
'Click to view the complete list of 173 endorsing organizations'; other pages on the same site still say more than 135 and more than 80s:eshre-eimEuropean IVF Monitoring Consortium (EIM), European Society of Human Reproduction and Embryology · link (read 2026-09-16)
a group of representatives of national ART registries; data submission restricted to national EIM representativess:pegasos-faqsFAQs — cost, refund policy and who may apply, Pegasos Swiss Association, Basel · link (read 2026-09-17)
the answers are inside collapsed panels and were read out of the page text with the browser tools. States a cost of approximately CHF 10,000 covering paperwork, consultations, the appointment including drugs, cremation and couriering of ashes, paid in two instalments, with CHF 1,500 retained on withdrawal.s:ishrs-fue-what-is-itFUE — what is it?, International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery · link (read 2026-09-17)
follicular units of 1 to 4 hairs, punches 0.7 to 1.2 mm, overharvesting as an uncorrectable problem, and the society's black-market warnings:asps-cost-faceliftFacelift Cost, American Society of Plastic Surgeons · link (read 2026-09-16)s:hfea-2022-trendsFertility treatment 2022: preliminary trends and figures, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-16)s:hfea-2023-trendsFertility treatment 2023: trends and figures, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-16)
the UK regulator's annual register report; birth rates marked preliminary and not yet validateds:hfea-2024-methodologyFertility treatment 2024: quality and methodology report, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-17)
people are in the Register 'regardless of a person's residence'; 'We do not hold detailed information on partner intrauterine insemination (IUI), or treatments that takes place outside of licensed clinics'; regions are assigned 'based on the location of the clinic rather than patient's residency'; the Register runs since 1991 and is described as the longest running database of fertility treatment in the worlds:hfea-2024-trendsFertility treatment 2024: trends and figures, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-17)
published 16 June 2026 from a register snapshot of 6 May 2026; 64,000 patients and over 100,000 treatment and freezing cycles in 2024; average IVF birth rate per embryo transferred 30%, 38% at ages 18-34 and 8% at 43-44; 2024 birth outcomes marked preliminarys:hfea-choose-clinicFinding the right clinic for you, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-17)
'Use success rates as a rough guide and not a prediction', and the passage on differences of one or two percentage points being down to chances:gov-uk-foreign-travel-insuranceForeign travel insurance, UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, gov.uk · link (read 2026-09-16)
read for repatriation, emergency transport, declaration of existing conditions and the limits of EHIC/GHICs:hfea-foiFreedom of information, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-17)
postal address as printed: Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority, 2nd floor, 2 Redman Place, London, E20 1JQs:gangnam-medi-tourGangnam Medi Tour, Gangnam-gu Office, Seoul · link (read 2026-09-16)
the district government's own medical-travel desk, at the ground floor of the Gangnam Tour Information Center, 161 Apgujeong-ro. Lists its partner clinics, which is a partner list and not a register of every clinic in the district.s:gmc-cosmetic-interventionsGuidance for doctors who offer cosmetic interventions — in effect 1 June 2016, updated 13 December 2024, General Medical Council (United Kingdom) · link (read 2026-09-16)
paragraph numbers cited on this site are from the sections Communication, partnership and teamwork (paras 14-45) and Maintaining trust (paras 46-56)s:who-a76-15-optHealth conditions in the occupied Palestinian territory, including east Jerusalem, and in the occupied Syrian Golan — Report by the Director-General (A76/15), World Health Organization, Seventy-sixth World Health Assembly · link (read 2026-09-16)
dated 17 May 2023; paragraphs 21 and 22 carry the 2022 permit application and approval counts for patients and their companions. Permit data for the Gaza Strip is attributed in the report to the Health Liaison Office of the Palestinian Ministry of Health.s:cdc-art-interpretHow to interpret ART success rates, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · link (read 2026-09-17)
'Comparison of success rates across clinics may not be meaningful' and 'Clinic success rates do not reflect any one patient's chance of success', with the reasons givens:hfeaHuman Fertilisation and Embryology Authority — clinic licensing and published results, HFEA (United Kingdom) · link (read 2026-09-16)s:women-on-webI need an abortion, Women on Web · link (read 2026-09-16)
a Canadian non-profit facilitating online access to abortion pills, asking a donation of 90 euros:globalhtc-imtj-awardsIMTJ Medical Travel Awards — the 2014 inaugural announcement, Global Healthcare Travel Council 2014 · link (read 2026-09-17)s:nhs-ivfIVF, National Health Service (United Kingdom) · link (read 2026-09-16)
page last reviewed 15 April 2025s:hfea-ivfIn vitro fertilisation (IVF), Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-16)s:iata-industry-statisticsIndustry Statistics — fact sheet, table "Global airline industry", updated 6/2026, International Air Transport Association, Sustainability and Economics · link (read 2026-09-17)
read as a PDF and extracted with pdftotext. The rows used here are O-D passengers, million (4,343 forecast for 2026) and Passenger, USD billion (839 forecast for 2026). The fact sheet publishes no average-fare line; the figure derived from those two rows is marked as this project's arithmetic wherever it appears.s:ieea-iapInternational Accreditation Programme, ISQua External Evaluation Association · link (read 2026-09-16)
four assessment categories, the statement that ISQua EEA does not directly accredit health or social care services, the once-off Access Fee and the 2026 fee bands:isqua-aboutInternational Society for Quality in Health Care, ISQua · link (read 2026-09-16)
Dublin base, Irish registered charity number 20072445, and the statement that ISQua EEA was established by ISQua in 2018s:jci-accreditationJoint Commission International — accreditation standards and accredited organizations, Joint Commission International · link (read 2026-09-16)s:hfea-key-factsKey facts and statistics, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-16)
set up by the Human Fertilisation and Embryology Act 1990; 107 licensed clinics in 2023/24; records of every treatment in a licensed clinic since 1991; 2022 figures for patients, cycles, pregnancy rate per fresh embryo transfer and the NHS-funded shares:cmar-cyprusLegal Framework — Council of Medically Assisted Reproduction, Council of Medically Assisted Reproduction, Republic of Cyprus · link (read 2026-09-16)
names the Medically Assisted Reproduction Law 2015, 69(I)/2015, and its amendments 194(I)/2015, 92(I)/2016, 113(I)/2018 and 166(I)/2023s:asps-cost-liposuctionLiposuction Cost, American Society of Plastic Surgeons · link (read 2026-09-16)s:malaysiahealthcare-aboutMalaysia Healthcare — about, Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council · link (read 2026-09-17)
company registration number 201101035226; the site's own count of more than 80 partner hospitals and clinics. mhtc.org.my itself returned HTTP 500 on this date, as it did on 16 September 2026.s:cdc-yellowbook-2026-medical-tourismMedical Tourism — CDC Yellow Book 2026, chapter by Rhett J. Stoney and Laura Leidel, page dated 23 April 2025, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · link (read 2026-09-16)
the 2026 edition of the chapter registered as s:cdc-yellowbook-medical-tourism, read in full at the URL above; the named outbreaks, the pathogen list and the ten-day flying rule are quoted from this pages:cdc-yellowbook-medical-tourismMedical Tourism — CDC Yellow Book: Health Information for International Travel, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · link (read 2026-09-16)
the standing public-health account of what travelling for treatment involves and what goes wrongs:dignitas-membershipMembership, DIGNITAS, Forch, Switzerland · link (read 2026-09-16)s:cdc-nassNational ART Surveillance System (NASS), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · link (read 2026-09-17)
'The Fertility Clinic Success Rate and Certification Act of 1992 mandates that clinics performing ART annually provide data to CDC'; 'A small number of clinics do not report data to CDC and are listed as nonreporters'; NASS estimated to contain about 98% of all US ART cycless:mmwr-dr-mycobacteria-2018Notes from the Field: Nontuberculous Mycobacteria Infections in U.S. Medical Tourists Associated with Plastic Surgery — Dominican Republic, 2017, Morbidity and Mortality Weekly Report 2018;67(12), US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · link (read 2026-09-16)s:hfea-multiple-birthsOur campaign to reduce multiple births, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-16)s:hcch-parentage-surrogacyParentage / Surrogacy Project, Hague Conference on Private International Law (HCCH) · link (read 2026-09-16)
the intergovernmental project on cross-border parentage; cited here where a national instrument was not reads:ptcog-under-constructionParticle therapy facilities under construction (update June 2026), Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG) · link (read 2026-09-16)
a public table of facilities under construction, listed by countrys:ptcog-world-mapParticle therapy facilities world map, Particle Therapy Co-Operative Group (PTCOG) · link (read 2026-09-16)
carries the headline count of facilities in clinical operation worldwide; the facility list itself is behind a login. The visible page read 128 on the access date while the page's own schema.org metadata, dated 26 May 2025, still carried 133. PTCOG counts particle therapy, which is proton plus carbon-ion.s:hfea-pgt-aPre-implantation genetic testing for aneuploidy (PGT-A) — treatment add-ons rating, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-16)s:cruk-protonProton beam therapy, Cancer Research UK · link (read 2026-09-16)
course length, daily schedule and indications; the page's reference list names NHS England, accessed November 2023s:asps-cost-rhinoplastyRhinoplasty Cost, American Society of Plastic Surgeons · link (read 2026-09-16)s:hfea-donor-infoRules around releasing donor information, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-17)
donations from 1 April 2005: non-identifying details at 16, identifying details at 18. Donations 1 August 1991 to 31 March 2005: non-identifying only. Nothing held before August 1991.s:tr-shgmSağlık Hizmetleri Genel Müdürlüğü, Türkiye Ministry of Health · link (read 2026-09-16)
departments including the Health Tourism Department and the Quality and Accreditation Department; address at Üniversiteler Mahallesi, Şehit Mehmet Bayraktar Caddesi No 3, Çankaya, Ankaras:fda-stem-cell-injunction-2019Statement on stem cell clinic permanent injunction and FDA's ongoing efforts to protect patients from risks of unapproved products, US Food and Drug Administration · link (read 2026-09-16)
25 June 2019; summary judgment of 3 June 2019 in the Southern District of Floridas:who-substandard-falsifiedSubstandard and falsified medical products — fact sheet dated 3 December 2024, World Health Organization · link (read 2026-09-16)s:caa-surgical-conditionsSurgical conditions — health guidance for health professionals, UK Civil Aviation Authority · link (read 2026-09-16)
intervals before flying after abdominal, laparoscopic, orthopaedic, ocular and neurosurgical proceduress:hfea-surrogacySurrogacy, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-16)s:declaration-of-istanbulThe Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism (2018 edition), Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group · link (read 2026-09-16)s:doi-2018-textThe Declaration of Istanbul on Organ Trafficking and Transplant Tourism, 2018 edition — preamble, definitions and the eleven principles, Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group; adopted in Madrid in July 2018, updating the 2008 text first published in The Lancet on 5 July 2008 · link (read 2026-09-16)
the full text on the Custodian Group's own site; its preamble carries the 2007 estimate from Shimazono, Bulletin of the World Health Organization 85(12):955-962, and its references list the Council of Europe Convention against Trafficking in Human Organs, ETS No. 216, Santiago de Compostela, 25 March 2015s:doi-2018-editionThe Declaration — 2018 edition, Declaration of Istanbul Custodian Group · link (read 2026-09-17)
the 2018 edition was presented in Madrid on 1 July 2018 during the TTS congress, after a public consultation; carries the revised transplant tourism definition built on non-resident patientss:fda-intragastric-balloonThe FDA alerts health care providers about potential risks with liquid-filled intragastric balloons, US Food and Drug Administration · link (read 2026-09-16)
letter dated 9 February 2017, updated 10 August 2017 and 27 April 2020s:ha-thailand-homeThe Healthcare Accreditation Institute (Public Organization), Healthcare Accreditation Institute, Thailand · link (read 2026-09-16)
public-organisation status under the Royal Decree establishing the HAI, B.E. 2552 (2009), and the public Certificate Status pagess:cdc-yellowbook-travel-insuranceTravel Insurance, Travel Health Insurance, and Medical Evacuation Insurance — CDC Yellow Book 2026, chapter by Rhett J. Stoney, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · link (read 2026-09-16)
carries the USD 25,000 to over USD 250,000 medevac range, the Medicare and Medigap limits, and the finding that insurers fully paid two-thirds of travel health claimss:hfea-add-onsTreatment add-ons, Human Fertilisation and Embryology Authority · link (read 2026-09-17)
the five-colour rating scale with its definitions, including red: 'There are potential safety concerns and/or, on balance, the findings from moderate/high quality evidence shows that this add-on may reduce treatment effectiveness.' Five add-ons carry a red rating on the page read on 17 September 2026: endometrial receptivity testing, intravenous immunoglobulin, steroids (glucocorticoids), platelet-rich plasma, and pre-implantation genetic testing for aneuploidy.s:asps-cost-tummy-tuckTummy Tuck Cost, American Society of Plastic Surgeons · link (read 2026-09-16)s:who-guiding-principlesWHO Guiding Principles on Human Cell, Tissue and Organ Transplantation, as endorsed by the Sixty-third World Health Assembly, May 2010, in Resolution WHA63.22, World Health Organization · link (read 2026-09-16)s:wma-helsinkiWMA Declaration of Helsinki — Ethical Principles for Medical Research Involving Human Subjects, World Medical Association · link (read 2026-09-17)
adopted June 1964 at the 18th WMA General Assembly, Helsinki; most recently amended at the 75th General Assembly, Helsinki, 2024s:nhs-weight-loss-surgeryWeight loss surgery, National Health Service (United Kingdom) · link (read 2026-09-16)
page last reviewed 5 February 2024s:nhs-weight-loss-surgery-howWeight loss surgery — how it's done, National Health Service (United Kingdom) · link (read 2026-09-16)
page last reviewed 5 February 2024s:gwi-wellness-tourismWhat is Wellness Tourism?, Global Wellness Institute · link (read 2026-09-17)
carries the definition, the primary and secondary traveller categories, the whole-trip counting rule, 894 billion US dollars for 2024 and 439 billion for 2012s:ishrs-2025-census-releaseWorld Hair Transplant Repair Day press release, citing the ISHRS 2025 Practice Census, International Society of Hair Restoration Surgery 2025 · link (read 2026-09-17)
a professional society's survey of its own members, not a registers:wmda-global-databaseWorld Marrow Donor Association — global database counter, World Marrow Donor Association, Leiden · link (read 2026-09-16)
the counter on the association's front page gives the number of volunteer donors and cord blood products in the global database; it counts registrations, not people available to donate on a given day
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s:gcc-bottom-surgery-costA Comprehensive Guide to Bottom Surgery Costs, Gender Confirmation Center, San Francisco; page marked medically reviewed 15 October 2024 · link (read 2026-09-16)
a surgical practice's own published estimates, with its inclusion and exclusion list and its policy that phalloplasty is not offered to cash-paying patientss:achsi-homeACHS International, Australian Council on Healthcare Standards International · link (read 2026-09-16)
wholly owned subsidiary of ACHS, EQuIP standards, more than 25 countries and more than 1,600 member organisationss:eshre-eim-2019ART in Europe, 2019: results generated from European registries by ESHRE, Human Reproduction (Oxford University Press) for the European IVF-monitoring Consortium of ESHRE · link (read 2026-09-16)
Smeenk J, Wyns C, De Geyter C, et al., Human Reproduction 2023;38(12):2321–2338, doi:10.1093/humrep/dead197. Registry returns, not a market estimate: 1,077,813 cycles from 1,488 clinics in 40 countries for 2019. Spain reported 137,276 cycles, second in Europe after Russia, from 244 IVF clinics; the highest egg-donation volumes came from Spain, Czechia and Russia.s:carafem-costAbortion Cost and reproductive health care services, carafem (Atlanta, Chicago, Washington DC) · link (read 2026-09-16)
sliding-scale prices by clinic citys:bpas-pricesAbortion and Contraception Price List, British Pregnancy Advisory Service · link (read 2026-09-16)s:imtj-about-2021-archiveAbout IMTJ, the International Medical Travel Journal (Internet Archive snapshot, 13 April 2021), IMTJ / LaingBuisson · link (read 2026-09-17)s:keithpollard-aboutAbout Keith / Career history of Keith Pollard, keithpollard.com · link (read 2026-09-17)
self-reported; the same wording about the journal's future being under review was already on the page in a September 2024 snapshots:hcci-about-archivedAbout Us — Health City Cayman Islands (archived capture, 13 December 2025), Health City Cayman Islands, via the Internet Archive · link (read 2026-09-17)
the hospital opened in 2014 and describes itself as a member of the Narayana Health network and 'the first hospital in the Caribbean and one of only six organisations globally to receive the prestigious Joint Commission International (JCI) Enterprise Accreditation'; the live site refuses automated requests and the Internet Archive could not be reached from this machine, so this entry rests on a capture read during research rather than on a fetch made for the records:islandhospital-aboutAbout Us — Island Hospital, Island Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)s:medicana-aboutAbout Us — Medicana Health Group, Medicana Sağlık Grubu · link (read 2026-09-17)
the group's own account: services begun 1992, 18 hospitals of which 16 across seven Turkish cities and two abroad at Winchester and Sarajevo, and more than 5.5 million patients a year. No bed count, no doctor count and no accreditation is named on the page.s:memorial-aboutAbout Us — Memorial Hospitals Group, Memorial Sağlık Grubu · link (read 2026-09-17)
read in the browser on 17 September 2026. The group's own counters: 92 medical units, 12 hospitals, 7,300+ employees, 1,510+ bed capacity, patients from 167 countries. Founder Turgut Aydın's message states the group took the JCI accreditation certificate first in Turkey and 21st in the world. The timeline page dates Memorial Şişli's opening, its heart centre, its transplant licence of March 2004 and the group's overseas offices.s:samitivej-hospitalsAbout Us — Our Hospitals, Samitivej Hospitals · link (read 2026-09-16)s:pacificasalud-aboutAbout Us — Pacífica Salud, Pacífica Salud (Hospital Punta Pacífica) · link (read 2026-09-17)
the hospital's own account: opened at Punta Pacífica in 2006, second campus at Costa del Este opened February 2022, founded by a group of Panamanian doctors and business owners, affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine International. No bed count, no doctor count and no price on the pages:samitivej-medical-travelAbout Us — international patients, Samitivej Hospitals · link (read 2026-09-16)s:who-gho-aboutAbout the Global Health Observatory, World Health Organization · link (read 2026-09-17)
the 194 Member States and 'over 1000 indicators' description, and the disclaimer that GHO datasets are WHO best estimates aiming at comparability and 'are not always the same as official national estimates's:acibadem-int-aboutAbout us — Acıbadem Healthcare Group, international site, Acıbadem Sağlık Grubu · link (read 2026-09-17)
the group's own figures for international patients: 45+ hospitals and clinics, 7 JCI-accredited hospitals, 3,300+ specialist physicians, patients from 90+ countries, 55 international patient officess:aaci-aboutAbout us — American Accreditation Commission International, AACI · link (read 2026-09-16)
Hendersonville, North Carolina address, and three current ISQua EEA awards with their year rangess:imtj-about-2010-archiveAbout us — International Medical Travel Journal (Internet Archive snapshot, 11 January 2010), IMTJ / Intuition Communication · link (read 2026-09-17)
imtj.com answers automated requests with a Cloudflare challenge, so the publication's own pages are read here through the Internet Archives:cima-accreditationsAccreditations — Hospital CIMA San José, Hospital CIMA San José, Escazú · link (read 2026-09-17)
read in the browser on 17 September 2026 after WebFetch failed on the site's certificate chain. States a sixth consecutive JCI Gold Seal against more than 1,200 standards, with no year for the first award, and ANCC Pathway to Excellence certification described as the only one held by a private hospital in Costa Rica or Central America. The page's payments section names the departments that process payment and prints no figure.s:gha-accredited-listAccredited and Certified Organizations, Global Healthcare Accreditation · link (read 2026-09-16)
public directory searchable by region; entries carry start dates and, for some, an expiry date such as 24 November 2022 to 24 November 2025s:galenia-accreditationsAcreditaciones y certificaciones, Hospital Galenia, Cancún · link (read 2026-09-16)
lists Joint Commission International, Accreditation Canada Qmentum International at Platinum level including international health-travel services, Consejo de Salubridad General certification and the SECTUR Distintivo Turismo de Salud; the validity dates printed beside three of them had passed when the page was reads:wp-andrade-poeAndrade Port of Entry, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
established 1909 on a Southern Pacific branch line; about 6 miles west of Yuma; 11th in the United States for pedestrian crossings in 2010s:moh-lk-annual-health-bulletinAnnual Health Bulletin, Ministry of Health, Sri Lanka · link (read 2026-09-16)
the ministry's national health statistics series; no foreign-patient count was read from it for this records:samitivej-checkup-sukhumvitAnnual Health Check-up Packages — Samitivej Sukhumvit, Samitivej Hospitals · link (read 2026-09-16)
promotional and regular prices both printed on the pages:apollo-greams-roadApollo Hospitals, Greams Road, Chennai — hospital page, Apollo Hospitals · link (read 2026-09-16)s:bangkokhospital-knee-arthroscopyArthroscopic Knee with Meniscus Repair (1 side, exclude implant) — package page, Bangkok Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)
price read off the hospital's own package page; stated usable 31 Jul 2026 – 31 Oct 2026s:swissrights-stgb-115Article 115 of the Swiss Criminal Code (English), on a private reproduction of the statute, swissrights.ch · link (read 2026-09-17)
a mirror, read because fedlex.admin.ch renders by script and did not return text on this date. The mirror does not display the SR number, so this project does not print one from it. The provision punishes inciting or assisting suicide only where the actor is led by a selfish motive; it carries no nationality or residence condition.s:yashoda-adr-costArtificial disc replacement surgery cost in India, Yashoda Hospitals, Hyderabad · link (read 2026-09-16)
the hospital's own cost page; it carries a range and an approximate figure, and no dates:wp-asanAsan Medical Center, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:bangkokhospital-awardsAwards & Accreditations, Bangkok Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)s:tijuana-bariatric-center-costBariatric surgery Tijuana cost and what affects pricing, Tijuana Bariatric Center · link (read 2026-09-16)
the page carries no date of its own; prices read on the accessed dates:wp-bogotaBogotá, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:princecourt-breast-augBreast Augmentation Package, Prince Court Medical Centre · link (read 2026-09-16)
price, implant brand and the exclusion line read off the package pages:rutnin-cataract-packageCATARACT Surgery Package, Rutnin Eye Hospital, Bangkok · link (read 2026-09-17)
the page carries the package terms and no price in text, stated updated 2 October 2023 and valid until 31 December 2026. Term 3 reads: 'If the ophthalmologist recommends the use of lenses other than those specified in the package, additional charges will apply.' Term 4 excludes doctor fees, consultation fees and pre-operative evaluation.s:tecsalud-qualityCalidad y seguridad, TecSalud, Tecnológico de Monterrey · link (read 2026-09-16)
states the Consejo de Salubridad General certification and that the system was in a recertification process when the page was reads:wp-cancunCancún, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:elekta-50-yearsCelebrating 50 years of iconic brain care, Elekta, 31 January 2018 · link (read 2026-09-16)
the manufacturer's own installed-base figure, eight years old on the access date and not superseded by anything current on its product pagess:rpclinic-posladki-cennikCennik - zabiegi posladkow, RP Clinic, Warsaw · link (read 2026-09-16)
buttock price list in zloty, gross, stated to cover the whole procedure including post-operative cares:artplastica-cennikCennik zabiegow i operacji plastycznych, Beauty Group - Artplastica, Szczecin · link (read 2026-09-16)
clinic's own price list in zloty; the page states the prices are indicative and may change at consultation, and lists hospitalisation at 800 PLN a day separatelys:fsfb-jciCertificación Joint Comission International (JCI), Fundación Santa Fe de Bogotá · link (read 2026-09-16)
the hospital's own accreditation timeline: first cycle 2010, then 2013, 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025s:bumrungrad-cdr01Cervical Disc Replacement (CDR) — package CDR01, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)
468,600 THB, one night, the artificial cervical disc itself excludeds:chs-charite-intCharité International Patients — Charité Healthcare Services, Charité Healthcare Services GmbH, Berlin · link (read 2026-09-17)
the wholly owned subsidiary that handles administration for patients living outside Germany. The page states what the office does and gives its telephone hours, Monday to Friday 10:00 to 14:00. It publishes no price, no tariff and no deposit schedule.s:acibadem-checkup-packagesCheck Up Paketleri ve Fiyatları 2026, Acıbadem Sağlık Grubu · link (read 2026-09-17)
read in the browser on 17 September 2026. The page is titled check-up packages AND PRICES and lists the contents of each programme — examinations, radiology, laboratory and cardiology test counts — with a Fiyat Sor (ask the price) button in place of every figure. No amount is printed anywhere on it.s:liv-checkupCheck-Up Packages — Complete Health Screening Services, Liv Hospital (MLP Care), Istanbul · link (read 2026-09-17)
fifteen screening packages priced in US dollars on the hospital's own international site and read there on 17 September 2026, each stated as a starting price per person and each listing its test counts by category. LIV STANDARD MEN from 600 USD and LIV STANDARD WOMEN from 590 USD are the entry tier; LIV GOLD CANCER SCREENING from 3,200 USD is the top. The page states the prices include medical reports.s:temos-companyCompany — Temos International GmbH, Temos International GmbH · link (read 2026-09-16)
founded 2010, registered address in Bergisch Gladbach, the six programmes, and the public Accredited Partners lists:bangkokhospital-heart-packagesCoronary artery angiography / percutaneous coronary intervention and Cardiovascular Surgery — package list, Bangkok Heart Hospital, Bangkok Hospital · link (read 2026-09-17)
read with the browser on 17 September 2026, prices stated valid until 31 October 2026: CABG Level 1 1,173,000 THB and Level 2 1,437,500 THB, 8 nights each; MICS CABG 1,500,000 THB, 7 nights; valve replacement or repair Level 1 966,000 THB and Level 2 1,196,000 THB, 8 nights; totally 3D endoscopic valve replacement or repair 1,400,000 THB, 7 nights; CAG and PCI transfemoral 299,000 THB and transradial 322,000 THB, 2 nights; CAG alone 62,100 to 69,000 THB. Exclusions name pre-assessment, other specialists' consultations, 'special device used during procedure', extra ICU or ward nights and home medications.s:dhi-dubai-costCost of Hair Transplant in Dubai, DHI Medical Group · link (read 2026-09-16)
the group's own page, describing DHI as a patented implanter pen and quoting dirham rangess:ec-cross-border-overviewCross-border healthcare — overview, European Commission, Directorate-General for Health and Food Safety · link (read 2026-09-16)
National Contact Points, the cross-border prescription rules, and the annual Member State data reports on prior authorisation and reimbursements:camara-costarricense-saludCámara Costarricense de la Salud, Cámara Costarricense de la Salud, San José · link (read 2026-09-16)s:defiant-protectionDefiant — how you're protected, Defiant (defiant.to) · link (read 2026-09-16)s:defiant-siteDefiant — medical travel concierge, Chiang Mai, Defiant (defiant.to) · link (read 2026-09-16)
the company's own site; the pricing model, the interpreter commitment and the procedure list are read off its:defiant-pricesDefiant — posted prices index, Defiant (defiant.to) · link (read 2026-09-16)s:bumrungrad-dental-packagesDental Center — package list, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)
ceramic veneer package for four teeth at 84,000 THBs:bidc-feesDental Fees — standardised treatment fees, Bangkok International Dental Center · link (read 2026-09-16)
implant fixture and implant crown priced in separate columns; page states package rates applicable till 30 September 2026s:sani-dental-pricesDental Price List in Mexico, Sani Dental Group, Los Algodones · link (read 2026-09-16)
prices in US dollars with a Mexican peso figure beside each; the page states every price is a base or starting prices:sani-price-listDental Price List in Mexico, Sani Dental Group · link (read 2026-09-16)
prices in US dollars and Mexican pesos, read off the page on 16 September 2026; the page states that all prices are a base or starting-at price and carries no location qualifier, though the group lists clinics in Los Algodones, Cancún and Playa del Carmens:adams-dental-tourism-2017Dental tourism industry exploits workers in Mexico, Krystyna Adams, The Conversation, 12 October 2017 · link (read 2026-09-16)s:vibhavadi-hemodialysisDepartment: Hemodialysis, Vibhavadi Hospital, Bangkok · link (read 2026-09-16)s:wp-devi-shettyDevi Shetty, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
carries the Bloomberg 2013 bypass figure of 95,000 rupees and the Cleveland Clinic comparisons:freedom-dialysis-turkeyDialysis in Turkey — units and approximate session prices, Freedom, the Dialysis Holiday Specialists, Leicestershire · link (read 2026-09-17)
an agency page, not a unit's own price list; every figure is prefixed 'approx.' and the page carries no dates:eu-directive-2011-24Directive 2011/24/EU on the application of patients' rights in cross-border healthcare, Official Journal of the European Union 2011 · link (read 2026-09-16)s:dhccDubai Healthcare City, Dubai Healthcare City Authority · link (read 2026-09-16)
the free zone's own homepage counts, read 16 September 2026: 168 clinical facilities, 10 hospitals, 4,425 healthcare professionals; Phase 1 on Oud Metha Road in Bur Dubai and Phase 2 at Al Jaddaf; regulator named as Dubai Healthcare City Authoritys:wp-dubai-healthcare-cityDubai Healthcare City, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:samitivej-disc-packageEndoscopic discectomy package for senior patients, Samitivej Hospitals · link (read 2026-09-16)s:wp-equal-earthEqual Earth projection, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17)
used only for the citation and date of the projection paper, which could not be fetched from the publishers:islandhospital-exec-screeningExecutive Health Screening Package, Island Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)
price, inclusion list and redemption date read off the product pages:bumrungrad-executive-checkupExecutive Program Health Check-up Package, CKUP1701, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)
price stated valid until 31 December 2026, inclusive of the doctor's fee, per person, in Thai currencys:bumrungrad-eye-packagesEye Center — package list, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-17)
read with the browser on 17 September 2026: ReLEx SMILE both eyes 102,000 THB; ICL single eye 129,000 THB; Toric ICL single eye 161,000 THB; phacoemulsification single eye with monofocal lens, Set 1, 85,400 THB; eye screening 4,100 THBs:heidelberg-financeFinance — International Patients, Heidelberg University Hospital (Universitätsklinikum Heidelberg) · link (read 2026-09-17)
the hospital's own money page for patients from abroad. A cost estimate is written only after its specialists have read the submitted records; the whole estimated sum is transferred before treatment and the appointment is confirmed on receipt; actual costs are settled afterwards and a balance below the pre-payment is refunded by the same route it came. Payment by bank transfer, by cash at the Kopfklinik cashier, or by card. No schedule of amounts is published.s:wp-fortis-healthcareFortis Healthcare, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:er-api-free-termsFree exchange rate API documentation — open endpoint, ExchangeRate-API · link (read 2026-09-17)
open endpoint updates once per day and carries time_last_update_utc and time_next_update_utc; attribution to ExchangeRate-API is required on pages using the rates; redistribution of the data is not permitteds:chettawut-srs-faqFrequently asked questions of sex reassignment surgery, Chettawut Plastic Surgery Center, Bangkok · link (read 2026-09-17)
publishes no package price; the only figure on the page is an extra charge of 32,000 THB where additional groin skin grafting is needed. States the dilation schedule: daily for two years to maintain depth, then two to three times a week, for life.s:cdc-meningitis-matamorosFungal Meningitis Outbreak Associated with Procedures Performed under Epidural Anesthesia in Matamoros, Mexico, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (archived page, last updated 27 October 2023) · link (read 2026-09-16)s:bodevolve-balloon-costGastric balloon cost 2026, BodEvolve Bariatric Surgery Center · link (read 2026-09-16)
page dated 6 May 2026s:carely-gastric-sleeveGastric sleeve Turkey — all-inclusive package, Carely Clinic, Istanbul · link (read 2026-09-16)
page last updated January 2026, price stated valid until April 2026s:euroistanbul-gastric-sleeveGastric sleeve all-inclusive package, Euro Istanbul, Istanbul · link (read 2026-09-16)s:alo-bariatrics-costGastric sleeve cost, ALO Bariatrics, Tijuana · link (read 2026-09-16)s:hayatmed-gastric-sleeveGastric sleeve for weight loss — costs and packages, HayatMed Clinic, Istanbul · link (read 2026-09-16)
page states reviewed on 29 October 2025s:mexico-bariatrics-center-sleeveGastric sleeve in Mexico, Mexico Bariatrics Center · link (read 2026-09-16)s:kamol-srsGender Reassignment Surgery / SRS — techniques and hospital stay, Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, Bangkok · link (read 2026-09-17)
five named techniques with operating times, and a stated stay of 4-6 nights. No price is published on the page.s:gleneagles-myGleneagles Hospitals Malaysia — hospital list and bed counts, Gleneagles Hospitals Malaysia (IHH Healthcare) · link (read 2026-09-16)s:wooridul-greetingsGreetings — Wooridul Spine Hospital, Wooridul Spine Hospital · link (read 2026-09-17)
founder Dr Sang-Ho Lee's own page: a spine doctor since 1975, minimally invasive spine treatment, an International Training Center for doctors at home and abroad, and the hospital describing itself as a "world-class spine hospital". Current locations listed: Cheongdam, Gimpo Airport, Busan, Daegu, Gwangju, Dubai and Abu Dhabis:govcn-lecheng-2025Hainan emerges as China's premier international medical tourism destination, Xinhua, on the State Council of the People's Republic of China website · link (read 2026-09-16)
dated 5 July 2025; figures for the Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zones:estenove-costHair Transplant Cost and Prices in Turkey, Estenove, Istanbul · link (read 2026-09-16)
clinic's own package prices in euro, quoted per session rather than per grafts:cosmedica-priceHair Transplant Turkey Cost — 2026 price and package breakdown, Cosmedica Clinic (Dr Levent Acar), Istanbul · link (read 2026-09-16)
package prices read off the clinic's own page on 16 September 2026: FUE Sapphire from EUR 2,550 up to 4,000 grafts (+EUR 900 for a megasession up to 6,000), Micro Sapphire DHI from EUR 3,290 (+EUR 700), VIP DHI Sapphire with Dr Acar operating from EUR 8,000 (+EUR 2,000). The page states the package covers the procedure, hotel, airport and hotel transfers and aftercare products, and excludes flights, travel insurance, extra nights and personal expenses; it also tells readers that prices below EUR 1,500 are a warning sign.s:wp-havanaHavana, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:medanta-healthcheckHealth Checkup Packages — Gurugram hospital, Medanta · link (read 2026-09-16)
package names and rupee prices printed on the listing pages:raffles-screening-ladiesHealth Screening Packages, Raffles Medical Group, Singapore · link (read 2026-09-16)s:raffles-screening-storeHealth Screening — packages and prices, Raffles Health (Raffles Medical Group) · link (read 2026-09-16)
the group's retail screening store, priced online in Singapore dollarss:wp-health-moroccoHealth in Morocco, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:tr-authorised-providersHealthcare Providers Authorized by the Ministry, Türkiye Ministry of Health, Health Services General Directorate, Health Tourism Department · link (read 2026-09-16)
separate downloadable lists for hospitals, medical centres, private practices, other providers and authorised facilitators; page dated 20 August 2026s:wp-healthcare-cubaHealthcare in Cuba, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
the health tourism section, the Operación Milagro eye-surgery programme, and the dispute over what hard-currency patients change inside Cuban hospitalss:wp-healthcare-egyptHealthcare in Egypt, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
read for the private hospital count, physician density, the out-of-pocket share and Law No. 2 of 2018s:bangkok-hospital-hip-kneeHip & Knee Surgery Packages, Bangkok International Hospital (Bangkok Bone and Brain) · link (read 2026-09-16)
package prices with nights and an implant-excluded line; valid until 31 December 2026s:practiceplus-hipHip surgery: costs and care plans — self-pay price list, Practice Plus Group · link (read 2026-09-16)s:wooridul-historyHistory — Wooridul Spine Hospital, Wooridul Spine Hospital · link (read 2026-09-17)
the hospital's own dated milestone list: 1982 Sangho Lee Neurosurgery Clinic founded; 1984 Dongrae Wooridul Hospital; 1992 Yeoksam Wooridul Hospital; 1999 Cheongdam Wooridul Spine Hospital as headquarters; 2001 international training centre for ISMISS and IMLAS; 2002 international training centre and Korea branch of the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons; 2005 and 2011 spine specialty hospital designations by the Korean Ministry of Health and Welfare; 2006 Wooridul International Patient Center; 2009 Shanghai; 2010 Jakarta; 2011 Istanbul and Dubai; 2012 Singapore; 2012 first medical institution certificate from the Ministrys:nephrocare-holiday-dialysisHoliday Dialysis, NephroCare, Fresenius Medical Care · link (read 2026-09-16)
the chain's own page: booking through the home centre, no prices publisheds:bph-holiday-dialysisHoliday Dialysis Center — treatments and services, Bangkok Hospital Phuket · link (read 2026-09-17)
the hospital's own page: a conventional rate of 7,000 THB a session of four hours and an online haemodiafiltration rate of 8,000 THB, both stated to exclude medications. No validity date.s:clinica-biblicaHospital Clínica Bíblica, Hospital Clínica Bíblica, San José, Costa Rica · link (read 2026-09-16)s:wp-clinica-biblicaHospital Clínica Bíblica, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
founded 1929 as the Hospital Clínico Bíblico by Henry and Susan Strachan of the Latin American Missions:wp-punta-pacificaHospital Punta Pacifica, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:dnv-niahoHospital accreditation — NIAHO and DIAS programs, DNV · link (read 2026-09-16)
NIAHO for US hospitals and DIAS for hospitals and clinics outside it, both built on ISO 9001s:lasikplus-lasik-costHow Much Does LASIK Cost?, LasikPlus, United States · link (read 2026-09-17)
states prices starting between $2,495 and $2,895 per eye 'before any discounts or promotions', covering the all-laser procedure, pre-operative exams and follow-up care, and cites a Market Scope survey range of $1,500 to $5,000 per eye across the United Statess:priory-rehab-costHow Much Does Rehab Cost in the UK, Priory Group · link (read 2026-09-16)
named programme tariffs, each prefixed 'from's:cellmedicine-stem-cell-costHow Much Does Stem Cell Therapy Cost?, Stem Cell Institute, Panama City, Panama · link (read 2026-09-17)
the clinic's own page: 15,825 USD for a child and 26,900 USD for an adult, stated to include airport customs clearance, ground transport and a hotel stay. The page names the conditions marketed and makes no statement about regulatory approval.s:gcc-top-surgery-priceHow Much is Top Surgery: A Detailed Guide, Gender Confirmation Center, San Francisco; page marked medically reviewed 13 March 2024 · link (read 2026-09-16)
cash-pay estimates, separating the surgeon's fee from facility and anaesthesia feess:bumrungrad-icl-single-eyeICL Single Eye — package IPDEYE42, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-17)
129,000 THB per eye, valid until 31 December 2026; out-patient only, overnight stays charged extra; includes the ICL device of the types specifieds:optegra-icl-costsICL Surgery Costs, Optegra Eye Health Care, United Kingdom · link (read 2026-09-17)
£3,595 per eye, described as a fixed price covering the virtual consultation, eye health check, treatment plan, the treatment and aftercare. The page carries no date of its own.s:imtj-summit-2019-archiveIMTJ Medical Travel Summit 2019, Berlin (Internet Archive snapshot, 23 August 2019), IMTJ 2019 · link (read 2026-09-17)s:imtj-summit-2021-archiveIMTJ Medical Travel Summit — postponement notice (Internet Archive snapshot, 16 March 2021), IMTJ / LaingBuisson 2021 · link (read 2026-09-17)s:laingbuissonnews-imtj-archiveIMTJ news category (Internet Archive snapshot, 10 September 2026), LaingBuisson News · link (read 2026-09-17)
the newest item on the page in a September 2026 capture is dated November 2023s:cny-ivf-costIVF Cost 2026: breakdown of prices, add-ons, CNY Fertility · link (read 2026-09-16)
page dated 7 July 2026; carries the clinic's own list prices and unattributed national rangess:newlife-ivf-costsIVF costs, egg donation costs, Newlife IVF, Thessaloniki · link (read 2026-09-16)s:mdanderson-internationalInternational Center — becoming our patient, University of Texas MD Anderson Cancer Center, Houston · link (read 2026-09-16)s:severance-ihcInternational Health Care Center — overview, Yonsei University Health System · link (read 2026-09-16)s:temos-medical-careInternational Hospital Accreditation — Medical Care, Temos International GmbH · link (read 2026-09-16)
fees by level of care and bed count, three-year fee schedule with first and second annual fees, assessor travel and accommodation excludeds:amc-introductionIntroduction — About Us, Asan Medical Center, Seoul · link (read 2026-09-17)
the hospital's own counters: 2,446 beds, 11,377 average daily outpatients, 654,536 inpatients a year, 47,460 highly sophisticated surgeries a year; established June 1989; 88 Olympic-ro 43-gil, Songpa-gu, Seoul 05505. It also carries the Newsweek placing — 22nd in the world and first in Korea for seven consecutive years — and KMAC's most-respected-hospital run.s:tehran-times-health-travel-2025Iran sets target to attract two million medical tourists over five years, Tehran Times · link (read 2026-09-16)
dated 7 June 2025, reporting tourism minister Seyyed Reza Salehi-Amiris:anadolu-jciJCI — Joint Commission International, Anadolu Sağlık Merkezi · link (read 2026-09-17)
the hospital's own statement: JCI first granted 2007, seventh accreditation earned, three-year re-survey cycle. The same page names Planetree Gold, the Association of European Cancer Institutes, ESMO and the Türkiye international health tourism authorisation certificate.s:wp-john-connellJohn Connell (geographer), Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
born 1946; joined the University of Sydney in 1977 as a lecturer in geography and retired as Professor; Member of the Order of Australia 2021s:sydney-connell-profileJohn Connell — academic profile, The University of Sydney · link (read 2026-09-17)
read in a browser because the page renders only with script: 'PROFESSOR / John Connell / Honorary Professor / Faculty of Science', School of Geosciences and the Sydney Southeast Asia Centre, with the biography line describing him as a social geographers:cihi-joint-replacement-waitsJoint Replacement Wait Times, Canadian Institute for Health Information, data updated June 2026 · link (read 2026-09-16)s:kokilaben-homeKokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital — hospital site, Kokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)s:mohw-kr-foreign-patients-2024Korea Attracts 1.17 Million Foreign Patients in 2024, Ministry of Health and Welfare (Republic of Korea) · link (read 2026-09-16)
press release of 3 April 2025; the annual foreign-patient statistics are compiled for the ministry by the Korea Health Industry Development Institutes:stimezo-zwolle-kostenKosten van abortus, Abortuskliniek Stimezo, Zwolle · link (read 2026-09-16)
free for women resident in the Netherlands, paid by the Ministry of Health; other tariffs for women without Dutch insurance or address, quoted by telephone rather than publisheds:laingbuisson-intuition-2018LaingBuisson announces the acquisition of Intuition Communication, 1 March 2018 (Internet Archive snapshot, 28 September 2023), LaingBuisson 2018 · link (read 2026-09-17)s:bumrungrad-sur04Laparoscopic Cholecystectomy — package SUR04, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-17)
240,930 THB against a struck-through 267,700 THB under a 'Special Campaign Discount Common Procedures' label; prices stated valid until 31 December 2026; 1.5 hours of theatre and one night in a single rooms:bumrungrad-sur05Laparoscopic Inguinal Hernia Repair (Unilat) 1 Side — package SUR05, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-17)
243,500 THB, valid until 31 December 2026; two hours of theatre and one night; exclusions name stays beyond one day, ICU, consultations, blood transfusion, pre- and post-operative tests and take-home medications:optegra-laser-costsLaser Eye Surgery Costs, Optegra Eye Health Care, United Kingdom · link (read 2026-09-17)
prices stated per eye: LASEK £1,495, LASIK £2,095, ReLEx SMILE £2,695, Presbyond £2,995, each including consultations, treatment, aftercare, medication and any enhancement treatment if clinically required. The page carries no date of its own.s:uci-leigh-turnerLeigh Turner — faculty profile, University of California, Irvine, Joe C. Wen School of Population and Public Health · link (read 2026-09-16)
Professor, Department of Health, Society & Behavior; Director, UC Irvine Center for Health Ethics; research on stem cell and regenerative medicine marketing and on health-related travels:wp-hospitals-cubaList of hospitals in Cuba, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
states there are no private hospitals or clinics in Cuba and gives 150 hospitals as of 2019s:liv-int-homeLiv Hospital — international site, Liv Hospital, Istanbul · link (read 2026-09-17)
the group's own counters read on 17 September 2026: 723+ doctors, 1M+ patients, 20+ locations. Names Liv Hospital Ulus, Vadistanbul, Ankara, Gaziantep, Bona Dea and Istinye University Bahçeşehir Liv. Lists JCI accreditation with no year, ISO certification, the Türkiye international health tourism authorisation, a Ministry of Culture and Tourism authorisation and a four-star Global Hospital Rating.s:psri-liver-cost-2026Liver Transplant Cost in India 2026: Surgery Price, Recovery & Outcomes, PSRI Hospital (Pushpawati Singhania Research Institute), Sheikh Sarai, New Delhi · link (read 2026-09-17)
the hospital's own page. Quotes a living-donor range of 18-20 lakh rupees and 30-35 lakh for deceased-donor and complex cases, a hospital stay of 10-15 days, and an international-patient service that includes medical visa letters and embassy documentation. The page carries no inclusion list beyond a prose sentence and no validity date.s:wooridul-locationLocation — Wooridul Spine Hospital, Wooridul Spine Hospital · link (read 2026-09-17)
headquarters address given as 445 Hakdong-ro, Gangnam-gu, Seoul 06068s:mhtc-mymt-2026Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council Launches MYMT 2026, Malaysia's First Medical Tourism Year, Malaysia Healthcare Travel Council · link (read 2026-09-16)
MHTC's own release, dated 25 July 2025, carrying its 2024 healthcare-traveller and revenue figures. The council's own site returned a server error on the date of accesss:wp-medellinMedellín, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:princecourt-health-screeningMedical Check-Up and Health Screening Packages, Prince Court Medical Centre, Kuala Lumpur · link (read 2026-09-16)s:baka-antalya-2012Medical Tourism in Antalya, Antalya Promotion and Tourism Development Inc. and BAKA West Mediterranean Development Agency · link (read 2026-09-16)
23-page promotional catalogue, BAKA Yayın No. 2012/75, ISBN 978-605-87282-9-5, 2012. Read page by page. A state development agency's sales document, and carried here as one: it states the Ministry of Health set up a Health Tourism Coordinating Unit in 2010, brought promotion incentives in 2011, and runs an International Patient Assistance line in English, German, Russian and Arabic. Photographic credits name Dünya Göz Hospital, Aspendos Hospital and Akdeniz University Hospital.s:moh-sg-medical-travellers-2009Medical Travellers Update, Ministry of Health, Singapore · link (read 2026-09-16)
written answer to a parliamentary question from Dr Lam Pin Min, 22 January 2009, giving the Singapore Tourism Board's airport exit-survey estimates and the ministry's own doubt about the methods:pib-medical-wellness-tourism-2026Medical and Wellness Tourism in India, Press Information Bureau, Government of India · link (read 2026-09-16)
backgrounder dated 2 May 2026; carries the 2025 medical-purpose arrival count, the top source countries, the NABH accreditation count and the visa categoriess:wp-medical-tourism-malaysiaMedical tourism in Malaysia, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
used for the year-by-year MHTC series 2011-2016 and the Indonesian share of arrivalss:medicana-int-istanbulMedicana International Istanbul Hospital, Medicana Sağlık Grubu · link (read 2026-09-17)
the flagship's own page: 30,000 square metres, eight operating theatres, 26 observation beds, 26-plus clinical services, an international patient centre with full-time English, Russian, Arabic, Kurdish and Somali interpreters, and an image of the Türkiye health tourism authorisation certificate. The inpatient bed figure is blank in the page's own text.s:wp-monterreyMonterrey, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:nabh-homeNational Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers, NABH · link (read 2026-09-16)
the programme list, the Find an Accredited Healthcare Organisation search, and the headline figure of more than 30,000 accreditations and certificationss:ahd-normal-deliveryNormal Delivery Package, American Hospital Dubai · link (read 2026-09-17)
read in the browser on 17 September 2026. The package page prints a full inclusion and exclusion list with no headline figure, and prices the exclusions instead: epidural anaesthesia Dhs 3,770, twin surcharge Dhs 2,050, routine medications capped at Dhs 450 and consumables at Dhs 1,500, baby vaccines about Dhs 300, a relative staying overnight Dhs 193 a day. It states the self-pay patient pays the entire package price in advance at sign-up, that a switch from normal delivery to caesarean is charged at the caesarean price, and that NICU, resuscitation and circumcision fall outside.s:wp-nuevo-progresoNuevo Progreso, Río Bravo, Tamaulipas, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
10,178 inhabitants at the 2010 census; over 100 dentists and 100 pharmacies in the five-block centres:lasamericas-internationalOficina Internacional Las Américas, Clínica Las Américas Auna, Medellín · link (read 2026-09-16)
the hospital's international office, its step-by-step pages on entry to Colombia, the health visa, yellow fever vaccination and flights, and the address Diagonal 75B N. 2A-80/140, Medellíns:antara-indonesia-outbound-2022One million Indonesians annually seek medical treatment abroad: gov't, ANTARA News · link (read 2026-09-16)
dated 25 March 2022, quoting Deputy Minister of Health Dante Saksono Harbuwonos:odbl-1-0Open Database License (ODbL) v1.0, Open Data Commons · link (read 2026-09-17)
the share-alike licence OpenStreetMap data carries: attribution, and any adapted database shared under the same termss:schult-origins-2009Origins of the Term 'Medical Tourism', 23 October 2009, Jeff Schult, beautyfromafar.com (author of Beauty from Afar, 2006) · link (read 2026-09-17)
a trade author stating the drift as it happened; his own 2006 book title still used the other words:nordorthopaedics-pricesOrthopaedic Surgery Prices, Nordorthopaedics Clinic, Kaunas · link (read 2026-09-16)
every figure is written as a 'from' price in euro and sterling; the page carries no inclusion lists:apolloclinic-chairmanOur Chairman's Profile — Dr Prathap C Reddy, Apollo Clinic (Apollo Hospitals Group) · link (read 2026-09-17)
medical degree at Stanley Medical College, Chennai; cardiology training in the UK and USA; fellowship at Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston; Apollo set up in Chennai in 1983 as a 150-bed hospital; Padma Bhushan 1991; Padma Vibhushan March 2010s:apollo-leadershipOur Leadership, Apollo Hospitals Enterprise Limited · link (read 2026-09-16)
names Dr Prathap C. Reddy as Founder, Chairman and states that he established Apollo Hospitals in 1983; the same page carries the group's own counts of hospitals, beds, doctors and accreditationss:bangkokhospital-ourstoryOur Story — Bangkok Hospital, Bangkok Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)s:severance-overviewOverview, Severance Hospital, Yonsei University Health System · link (read 2026-09-17)
founded 1885 by H. N. Allen as the country's first western-style hospital; names JCI accreditation without a year; carries unit volumes — the first 20,000 robotic operations in the world by 2018, about 2,000 coronary artery operations and about 1,300 arrhythmia treatments a years:promed-salud-crPROMED — English, Cámara Costarricense de la Salud · link (read 2026-09-16)
promedcostarica.org now redirects here; membership categories and the Seal of Quality are described on this pages:tecsalud-internationalPacientes foráneos e internacionales, TecSalud, Tecnológico de Monterrey · link (read 2026-09-16)
bilingual clinical staff, consent documents available in English, interpreter coordination, partner hotels; certifications listed include the Consejo de Salubridad General, Pathway to Excellence in nursing and COMLEs:bumrungrad-packagesPackages & Programs — joint replacement and spine, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)s:islandhospital-packagesPackages store — Island Hospital, Island Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)s:pacifica-saludPacífica Salud, Hospital Punta Pacífica, Pacífica Salud · link (read 2026-09-16)
states it is the first in Latin America and the Caribbean affiliated to Johns Hopkins Medicine International, and that the hospital began as an idea of Panamanian doctors and businessmen more than twenty years agos:wp-panama-cityPanama City, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:parkschloesschen-panchakarmaPanchakarma Kur Klassisch, Ayurveda Parkschloesschen, Bad Wildstein, Germany · link (read 2026-09-16)s:suporn-patient-administrationPatient administration, Suporn Clinic, Chonburi, Thailand · link (read 2026-09-16)
a long-established destination clinic stating that it does not publish prices, and setting out its deposit, payment and cancellation schedules:wp-patients-beyond-bordersPatients Beyond Borders, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
lists the editions, including single-country and single-city editions for Korea, Taiwan, Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, Turkey, Dubai Healthcare City and Monterreys:bumrungrad-phaco-monofocalPhacoemulsification Single Eye with Monofocal Lens for Phacoemulsification Single Eye Set 1 — package IPDEYE40+IPDEYE4005, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-17)
85,400 THB, prices stated valid until 31 December 2026. Inclusions name the monofocal lens, 'only the types specified in the package'; exclusions name physician's fees, consultations, pre-surgical screening, medication, supplies and other tests.s:kamol-phalloplastyPhalloplasty — flap options and candidacy requirements, Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, Bangkok · link (read 2026-09-17)
four flap techniques with the length each is said to produce, and a candidacy list: minimum age 20, at least one year of testosterone, one year living in the acquired gender, psychiatric clearance, and mastectomy and hysterectomy completed at least six months before. No price is published on the page.s:yanhee-plastic-pricesPlastic Surgery Prices, Yanhee Hospital, Bangkok · link (read 2026-09-16)
hospital's own price table: procedure, nights, price in Thai baht. The page carries no validity date and no inclusion list.s:wp-pohang-wooridulPohang Wooridul Hospital, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:medanta-policy-formsPolicies & Forms — MRP of coronary stents and orthopaedic knee systems, Medanta · link (read 2026-09-16)
the index names the price documents; the figures themselves sit in linked filess:clinica-biblica-presupuestosPresupuestos, Hospital Clínica Bíblica, San José · link (read 2026-09-16)
a quotation request form for surgery, imaging, pharmacy and maternity; no figure is printeds:premier-clinic-prague-pricesPrice List - Plastic Surgery, Premier Clinic, Prague · link (read 2026-09-16)
clinic's own English price list, every line prefixed 'from', in Czech korunas:ltc-price-listPrice List — surgery, facial feminisation, MTF GCS/SRS, body masculinisation, The London Transgender Clinic, London · link (read 2026-09-17)
read with the browser tools. Every surgical line is prefixed 'Starts from'. The page states that an exact price cannot be given before consultation, that a formal quotation covers treatment, aftercare and the hospital stay where required, and that guide prices are subject to change. It carries no date. There is no phalloplasty or metoidioplasty row on it.s:pronatal-pricesPrice list, PRONATAL, Prague · link (read 2026-09-16)
read 16 September 2026: IVF with own eggs from EUR 3,000 including basic laboratory methods; donor egg programme with guarantee from EUR 5,950 including basic laboratory methods; frozen embryo transfer from EUR 990; egg freezing for non-medical reasons from EUR 1,990, which excludes medication and includes two years of storage; IUI from EUR 400; donor embryo transfer from EUR 1,850s:fertilab-pricingPrice list — fertility treatments, Fertilab Barcelona · link (read 2026-09-16)s:reprofit-pricelist-2026Pricelist — Assisted Reproduction, valid from 01.01.2026 (document 0331.26ENG), Reprofit International s.r.o., Brno · link (read 2026-09-16)
the clinic's own self-payer price list, five pages, each line naming its inclusions and its exclusionss:indexmedica-pricesPrices — dental treatment in Kraków, Index Medica, Kraków · link (read 2026-09-16)
two tables, one in sterling against a column the clinic labels average UK price, one in euro against average Irish price. Read 16 September 2026: complete implant including screw, healing ring, individual abutment and full-ceramic zirconia crown GBP 1,450 or EUR 1,552; implant screw alone GBP 575; full-ceramic zirconia crown GBP 429 or EUR 469; root canal on a front tooth GBP 120. Examination, x-rays and local anaesthetic are listed free. A deposit of 80% of each stage is due on signing the treatment plan; American Express and Diners Club are not accepted.s:lasikmd-pricingPricing, LASIK MD, Canada · link (read 2026-09-17)
read 17 September 2026: 'LASIK starting at $490 per eye' and 'Custom LASIK up to $3,090/eye', per eye, with no date on the page. The footer states prices are subject to change without prior notice and vary by market, technology, prescription strength and plan selected. The page publishes no ICL or SMILE price.s:princecourt-homePrince Court Medical Centre — hospital site, Prince Court Medical Centre · link (read 2026-09-16)s:wp-pha-jordanPrivate Hospitals Association (Jordan), Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:practiceplus-spinalPrivate back surgery — self-pay price list, Practice Plus Group · link (read 2026-09-16)
anterior cervical discectomy and fusion listed at £14,400s:practiceplus-kneePrivate knee surgery and treatment — self-pay price list, Practice Plus Group · link (read 2026-09-16)s:practiceplus-shoulderPrivate shoulder and elbow surgery — self-pay price list, Practice Plus Group · link (read 2026-09-16)s:iitk-shetty-profileProfile — Dr Devi Prasad Shetty (convocation), Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur, Dean of Academic Affairs · link (read 2026-09-17)
'Dr Devi Prasad Shetty is the Founder and Chairman of Narayana Health'; MBBS University of Mysore 1978, MS 1982, FRCS England 2009; the Yeshaswini scheme with the Government of Karnataka; awards listed without yearss:wp-progreso-bridgeProgreso–Nuevo Progreso International Bridge, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
in operation since 1952; rebuilt 2003 with four traffic lanes; tolls and annual crossing figures are stated on the page without a years:raffles-hospitalRaffles Hospital — hospital page, Raffles Medical Group · link (read 2026-09-16)s:wp-raffles-medicalRaffles Medical Group, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:my-act-586-overviewRegulatory framework for setting up private healthcare facilities and services in Malaysia, Halim Hong & Quek (HHQ), Malaysian law firm · link (read 2026-09-17)
a practitioner overview, not the statute. Quoted for the Act 586 approval requirement and the Private Healthcare Facilities and Services (Private Hospitals and Other Private Healthcare Facilities) Regulations 2006. The Act's own text could not be read on this date: the Attorney General's Chambers page returned an invalid request, CommonLII returned 403, and the circulating PDF reprint would not extract.s:pacificasalud-respaldoRespaldo institucional — accreditations and affiliations, Pacífica Salud, Pacífica Salud (Hospital Punta Pacífica) · link (read 2026-09-17)
the hospital's own credential page: affiliation with Johns Hopkins Medicine International since the hospital's beginnings and renewed in 2017, extended to the Costa del Este campus; a fifth Joint Commission International accreditation at Punta Pacífica and a first at Costa del Este, neither dated on the page; World Stroke Organization certification 12 November 2025 to 12 November 2028; ISO 9001:2015 for radiology at both campusess:mhlw-foreign-patient-surveyResults of the FY2023 survey on the reception of foreign patients at medical institutions, Ministry of Health, Labour and Welfare (Japan) · link (read 2026-09-16)
published 31 July 2024, corrected 21 August 2024 and 20 May 2025; surveys every hospital nationwide plus clinics in selected prefectures, and records whether foreign patients were received, not how many travelled for treatments:bangkokhospital-cholecystectomyRobotic-Assisted Cholecystectomy Level 2 — package page, Bangkok Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)s:bumrungrad-robotic05Robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy (GA-TIVA) — package ROBOTIC05, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-17)
1,014,000 THB, valid until 31 December 2026; five hours of theatre, four nights in a single room, biopsy of three specimens; exclusions name daily round physician fees, stays beyond four days, ICU, laboratory and imaging before and afters:wp-samsung-medicalSamsung Medical Center, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:smc-homeSamsung Medical Center — hospital site, Samsung Medical Center · link (read 2026-09-16)s:wp-san-jose-crSan José, Costa Rica, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:wp-santo-domingoSanto Domingo, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:rg-32182-2023-sac-ekimiSaç Ekimi Birimleri Hakkında Yönetmelik, Resmî Gazete 6 Mayıs 2023, Sayı 32182, T.C. Resmî Gazete 2023 · link (read 2026-09-17)s:seoul-foreign-patients-2024Seoul Draws 1M International Medical Tourists in 2024 with ₩1.2T in Medical Spending, Seoul Metropolitan Government 2026 · link (read 2026-09-16)
reports the MOHW and KHIDI 2024 count: 1,170,467 patients from 202 countries, 999,642 of them treated in Seouls:smc-cubaServicios Médicos Cubanos, Comercializadora de Servicios Médicos Cubanos, Havana · link (read 2026-09-16)s:wp-severanceSeverance Hospital, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:severance-enSeverance Hospital — English site, hospital figures, Yonsei University Health System · link (read 2026-09-16)s:dha-sheryanSheryan — Dubai Health Licensing System, public search, Dubai Health Authority · link (read 2026-09-16)
public search across Facilities, Professionals and the Dubai Medical Registrys:guardian-cross-border-2015Shop frontiers: the rise of cross-border buying around the world, The Guardian · link (read 2026-09-16)
dated 2 July 2015; the source Wikipedia cites for the roughly 350 dentists in Mosonmagyaróvárs:sacperSociedad Argentina de Cirugía Plástica, Estética y Reparadora, SACPER, Buenos Aires · link (read 2026-09-16)s:sbcpSociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica, Sociedade Brasileira de Cirurgia Plástica, São Paulo · link (read 2026-09-16)s:freedom-dialysis-spainSpain - dialysis holidays, Freedom, the Dialysis Holiday Specialists, Leicestershire · link (read 2026-09-16)
an agency page, not a unit's own price lists:bumrungrad-spine-packagesSpine Surgery — Spine Institute package list, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)
endoscopic discectomy, ACDF, cervical disc replacement and TLIF pricess:bumrungrad-joint-packagesSports Medicine & Joint Center — package list, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)
arthroscopy, ligament, knee and hip package prices in one table; read in a browser because the page is rendered by scripts:giostar-mexico-costStem Cell Therapy Mexico Cost at GIOSTAR Mexico, GIOSTAR Mexico · link (read 2026-09-17)
the clinic's own page, marked verified August 2026: packages by condition group, a stated cell count of 35-140 million across 1-4 vials, and a claim of COFEPRIS-certified facilities. No FDA approval is claimed.s:barberyn-summer-ratesSummer Rates, Barberyn Ayurveda Resorts, Sri Lanka · link (read 2026-09-16)
rates stated for 15 April 2026 to 30 November 2026s:bumrungrad-surgical-packagesSurgical Clinic — package list, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-17)
read with the browser on 17 September 2026: laparoscopic cholecystectomy 240,930 THB against 267,700; robotic-assisted cholecystectomy 349,500; open inguinal hernia repair one side 199,600 and both sides 304,700; laparoscopic inguinal hernia repair one side 243,500 and both sides 382,000; robotic inguinal hernia repair one side 350,000 and both 430,000; robotic umbilical hernia repair 420,000s:circle-surrogacy-costSurrogacy cost, Circle Surrogacy · link (read 2026-09-16)s:mohw-tw-health-welfare-reportTaiwan Health and Welfare Report 2025, Ministry of Health and Welfare (Taiwan) · link (read 2026-09-16)
the ministry's annual English-language report; no national count of international patients was read from it for this records:somatheeram-tariff-2025-26Tariff Booklet 2025/26, Somatheeram Ayurvedic Hospital and Yoga Centre, Kerala · link (read 2026-09-16)
euro tariff, validity 01.10.2025 to 30.09.2026, all applicable taxes stated as includeds:natural-earth-termsTerms of Use, Natural Earth · link (read 2026-09-17) (Public domain)
'All versions of Natural Earth raster + vector map data found on this website are in the public domain.' and 'No permission is needed to use Natural Earth.' The same page disclaims responsibility for accuracy and content.s:who-terms-of-useTerms of use, World Health Organization · link (read 2026-09-17)
reproduction for research or private study is permitted 'but not for sale or for use in conjunction with commercial purposes'; WHO publications carry CC BY-NC-SA 3.0 IGOs:dawn-rehab-ratesThe Cost of Rehab in Thailand - service rates, The Dawn Rehab, Chiang Mai · link (read 2026-09-16)s:nhs-eu-directive-routeThe EU Directive route, NHS · link (read 2026-09-16)s:imtj-awards-2024-archiveThe IMTJ Medical Travel Awards (Internet Archive snapshot, 17 September 2024) — carries the 2022 cancellation notice, LaingBuisson · link (read 2026-09-17)
awards.imtj.com no longer resolves; this snapshot is the last published states:london-gamma-knifeThe London Gamma Knife Centre at St Bartholomew's Hospital, HCA Healthcare UK · link (read 2026-09-16)
a private provider's own description of the single-session treatment, the frame and the mask; not an independent bodys:mti-homeThe Medical Tourism Index 2020-21, International Healthcare Research Center · link (read 2026-09-16)
authorship, the three editions and their destination counts, the three dimensions and 41 criteria, and the survey of 3,030 Americanss:nuremberg-code-bmjThe Nuremberg Code (1947), reprinted in the BMJ, No 7070, Volume 313, page 1448, 7 December 1996 · link (read 2026-09-17)
Principle 1 opens: The voluntary consent of the human subject is absolutely essentials:nhs-s2-routeThe Planned Treatment Scheme (S2 funding route), NHS · link (read 2026-09-16)s:usatoday-incidental-touristThe inciDENTAL tourist, USA Today · link (read 2026-09-16)
dated 28 July 2005; the oldest reference behind the Hungarian border-dentistry reputation, and twenty-one years olds:wp-tijuanaTijuana, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)s:kamol-top-surgeryTop Surgery / Mastectomy — techniques, stay and recovery, Kamol Cosmetic Hospital, Bangkok · link (read 2026-09-17)
states a stay of 2-5 nights depending on technique, suture removal at 7 days, return to work after 2 weeks and full healing at 4-6 months. No price is published on the page.s:bumrungrad-joint08Total Hip Replacement Surgery (Exclude implant) — package JOINT08, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)
425,200 THB, four nights, implant excluded; price stated valid until 31 December 2026s:bumrungrad-joint04Total Knee Replacement Surgery (Exclude implant) — package JOINT04, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)
read off the hospital's own package page; price stated valid until 31 December 2026s:bumrungrad-gyne03Total Laparoscopic Hysterectomy — package GYNE03, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-17)
265,000 THB against 285,000 under a Gynecological Awareness Month 2026 offer, stated valid from 12 August to 31 October 2026; three hours of theatre, two nights in a single room; exclusions name 'Special Medical supplies & Special Equipment used such as Ligasure Generator, Thunderbeat's:wp-tourism-cubaTourism in Cuba, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
health tourism section; the 2005 figure of more than 19,600 foreign patients, and Hilda Molina's criticisms:nobel-biocare-trademarksTrademarks, Nobel Biocare Services AG · link (read 2026-09-17)
lists All-on-4 as a registered trademark with "treatment concept" given as the suggested generic term; no registration number reads:bumrungrad-tlif01Transforaminal Lumbar Interbody Fusion (TLIF) Surgery — package TLIF01, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)
576,300 THB, two nights, implant and artificial bone graft excluded; valid until 31 December 2026s:medicare-travel-outside-usTravel outside the U.S., Medicare.gov, US Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services · link (read 2026-09-16)s:mdental-budapest-pricesTreatment Prices, Medicare Dental Clinic, Budapest · link (read 2026-09-16)
treatment price and lab fee shown as separate lines; packages name accommodation and transferss:wimpole-uk-cost-surveyUK Hair Transplant Cost: Average Price and Cost Per Graft, Wimpole Clinic, London · link (read 2026-09-16)
a clinic's own mystery-shopper survey: one photograph of a Norwood stage 2-3 patient sent to 104 UK clinics, data used from 58s:rg-saglik-turizmi-2017Uluslararası Sağlık Turizmi ve Turistin Sağlığı Hakkında Yönetmelik, Resmî Gazete, Republic of Türkiye (Ministry of Health) · link (read 2026-09-16)
Resmî Gazete 13 July 2017, No. 30123. Read in Turkish off the Resmî Gazete page. Article 5(1) makes an international health tourism authorisation certificate (yetki belgesi) compulsory for both the health facility and the intermediary; the Ministry halts the activity of anyone without one. Transitional Article 1 gave those already trading one year to comply. Article 16: in force on publication. REPEALED: MADDE 17 of the regulation of 26 April 2025 (Resmî Gazete 32882) revokes this one. Cite it for what the regime was, not for what it is.s:rg-32882-2025Uluslararası Sağlık Turizmi ve Turistin Sağlığı Hakkında Yönetmelik, Resmî Gazete 26 Nisan 2025, Sayı 32882, T.C. Resmî Gazete 2025 · link (read 2026-09-17)
MADDE 17 repeals the 13/7/2017 regulation (RG 30123) that most secondary writing still citess:jucm-case-rate-2017Understanding Case-Rate Reimbursement, Journal of Urgent Care Medicine, 1 December 2017 · link (read 2026-09-17)
a trade journal definition; no standards body publishes ones:bumrungrad-urology-packagesUrology Center — package list, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-17)
read with the browser on 17 September 2026: robotic-assisted radical prostatectomy 1,014,000 THB; transurethral resection of the prostate (TURP) 216,000 THB under either general anaesthesia or spinal block, three nights; Urolift 330,000; ReZum water vapour therapy 261,300; basic prostate check 7,500s:vietnamplus-medical-travel-2026Vietnam moves to tap growing potential of medical tourism, VietnamPlus, Vietnam News Agency · link (read 2026-09-16)
dated 28 August 2026; every figure in it is attributed to unnamed reports and estimatess:lasamericas-visaVisa Médica en Colombia, Clínica Las Américas Auna, Medellín · link (read 2026-09-16)
states that a non-resident foreigner coming for treatment, and any companion, needs a Colombian health visa where the stay is expected to exceed 90 days, and points at the Cancillería de Colombias:mofa-jp-visa-statisticsVisa issuance statistics, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Japan · link (read 2026-09-16)
annual counts of visas issued by Japanese missions abroad, by category, on a calendar year; the 2025 tables were published 23 June 2026. The page states that the figures differ from immigration counts because some nationalities are visa-exempts:bumrungrad-relex-smileVision correction with ReLEx SMILE for both eyes package — IPDEYE34, Bumrungrad International Hospital · link (read 2026-09-17)
102,000 THB for both eyes; the page states the package does not include the doctor's fee for the initial consultation or the examinations that decide suitabilitys:who-pandemic-remarks-2020WHO Director-General's opening remarks at the media briefing on COVID-19 — 11 March 2020, World Health Organization · link (read 2026-09-17)
'We have therefore made the assessment that COVID-19 can be characterized as a pandemic.'s:gha-aboutWhat is Global Healthcare Accreditation?, Global Healthcare Accreditation · link (read 2026-09-16)
the three competencies of the medical travel care continuum and the ISQua accreditation of Standards for Medical Travel 5.0s:ahd-aboutWho We Are — American Hospital Dubai, American Hospital Dubai · link (read 2026-09-17)
read in the browser on 17 September 2026. Established 1996, part of the Mohamed & Obaid Al Mulla Group; 254 beds, acute general medical and surgical, more than 40 specialties, all physicians American board certified or equivalent; states it is the first hospital in the Middle East awarded the JCI and that its laboratory was the first in the region's private sector accredited by the College of American Pathologists; inaugural member of the Mayo Clinic Care Network; seven satellite clinics. The page footer carries the licence number MOH#Z8IXYQHM-041025.s:achs-who-we-areWho we are, The Australian Council on Healthcare Standards · link (read 2026-09-16)
standards development since 1974, not-for-profit status, and authorisation as an accrediting agency by the Australian Commission on Safety and Quality in Health Cares:khcc-whyWhy KHCC, King Hussein Cancer Center, Amman · link (read 2026-09-17)
the centre's own claim to be the first institution in the developing world accredited by JCI as a disease-specific cancer centre, and the sixth in the world. The page gives no year, no bed count and no patient numbers.s:wimpole-pricesWimpole Clinic Prices, Wimpole Clinic, London · link (read 2026-09-16)s:healthpoint-wooridul-spine-centreWooridul Spine Center — Healthpoint, Abu Dhabi, Healthpoint / Mubadala Health · link (read 2026-09-17)
describes the centre as a partnership between Mubadala Health and Wooridul Spine Hospital, wholly owned by Mubadala, staffed by South Korean spine surgeons, with physiotherapists trained at the Seoul hospital; the stated aim is to reduce the need for patients to travel abroad. No opening date on the pages:india-evisa-portale-Visa categories, duration and entries, Bureau of Immigration, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India (indianvisaonline.gov.in) · link (read 2026-09-16)s:india-emedical-visae-Visa — e-Medical Visa and e-Medical Attendant Visa, Bureau of Immigration, Ministry of Home Affairs, Government of India · link (read 2026-09-16)
one year from arrival, multiple entries, hospital letter on letterhead, two attendant visas per patients:pbb-homepage-2026patientsbeyondborders.com homepage, Patients Beyond Borders · link (read 2026-09-17)
as read on this date the site names no author and no book and states: 'If you are a patient seeking assistance with medical travel, please visit Medical Departures, or contact info@medicaldepartures.com.' The /about and /services paths return 404s:memorial-sisliŞişli Hospital — Memorial, Memorial Sağlık Grubu · link (read 2026-09-17)
read in the browser on 17 September 2026 for the address Piyalepaşa Bulvarı 34385, Şişli, Istanbul. The hospital page links health packages — cancer control and heart control programmes — under a contact form; no price appears on it.s:wooridul-home우리들병원 — Wooridul Hospital, group site and running counters, Wooridul Hospital · link (read 2026-09-16)
the counters are cumulative from March 1982 to August 2026 and are the hospital's own
Dataset (30)
s:cdc-art-2022-summary2022 Final Assisted Reproductive Technology (ART) Summary, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · link (read 2026-09-16)
clinic-level and national rows; the national rows carry locationabbr NA. Queried through the Socrata endpoint https://data.cdc.gov/resource/9tjt-seye.jsons:cdc-artAssisted Reproductive Technology Surveillance and clinic-level success rates, US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention · link (read 2026-09-16)s:bts-border-crossingBorder Crossing/Entry Data, United States Bureau of Transportation Statistics · link (read 2026-09-16)
monthly counts by port of entry and measure, queried through the Socrata API at https://data.bts.gov/resource/keg4-3bc2.json. Counts crossings, not people.s:who-gho-odataGHO OData API, World Health Organization · link (read 2026-09-17)
the API at https://ghoapi.azureedge.net/api returned 3,099 indicator records and 202 dimensions on this date; the page carries no licence statement of its owns:who-gapdGlobal Abortion Policies Database, World Health Organization (HRP) · link (read 2026-09-16)
country profiles naming each jurisdiction's instrument; cited here where a national instrument was not read directlys:who-nha-databaseGlobal Health Expenditure Database, World Health Organization · link (read 2026-09-17)
the national health accounts database behind the World Bank's spending and out-of-pocket indicatorss:who-ghoGlobal Health Observatory, World Health Organization · link (read 2026-09-16)s:godt-observatoryGlobal Observatory on Donation and Transplantation (WHO–ONT collaboration), World Health Organization and Organización Nacional de Trasplantes · link (read 2026-09-16)s:eurostat-sha11-metadataHealth care expenditure (SHA 2011) (hlth_sha11) — metadata, Eurostat · link (read 2026-09-16)
carries the sentence that exports of health care goods and services to non-resident units are excluded while imports for final use are included; legal basis Commission Regulations 2015/359 and 2021/1901s:who-health-workforceHealth workforce — Global Health Observatory theme, World Health Organization · link (read 2026-09-17)
the WHO collection the World Bank names as the upstream of its physicians indicators:wb-hospital-bedsHospital beds (per 1,000 people) — indicator SH.MED.BEDS.ZS, World Bank Open Data · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY 4.0)
definition read off https://api.worldbank.org/v2/indicator/SH.MED.BEDS.ZS?format=json — inpatient beds in public, private, general and specialised hospitals and rehabilitation centres, acute and chronic care in most cases; WHO data supplemented by country datas:oecd-alos-metadata-2025Hospital discharges and average length of stay by diagnostic categories — definitions, sources and methods, OECD Health Statistics 2025 · link (read 2026-09-17)
ALOS is bed-days divided by discharges, counted as date of discharge minus date of admission; day cases are excluded, and a day-care patient retained overnight because of a complication is counted as an inpatient discharges:wb-tourist-arrivalsInternational tourism, number of arrivals — indicator ST.INT.ARVL, World Bank Open Data · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY 4.0)
the long definition and its caveats read off https://api.worldbank.org/v2/indicator/ST.INT.ARVL?format=json, including the sentences on differing national collection methods and on arrivals not being people; source organisation UN Tourism, Yearbook and Compendium of Tourism Statisticss:ch-laingbuisson-internationalLAINGBUISSON INTERNATIONAL LIMITED, company 04858023 — incorporation, previous names, dissolution, Companies House (United Kingdom) · link (read 2026-09-17)s:natural-earthNatural Earth — Admin 0 Countries, 1:110m, Natural Earth · link (read 2026-09-16) (Public domain)s:osm-nominatimNominatim search over OpenStreetMap, OpenStreetMap contributors · link (read 2026-09-16) (ODbL 1.0)
queried by hand for the street and the point of each anchor hospital in this batch. A Nominatim answer is whatever a mapper typed and whatever the geocoder matched it to; the addr: tags are read here as the street, not as a postal address the hospital itself published.s:oecd-health-statisticsOECD Health Statistics, Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development · link (read 2026-09-16)s:ch-04858023-officersOfficers of company 04858023 (Intuition Communication Limited, later LaingBuisson International Limited), Companies House (United Kingdom) · link (read 2026-09-17)
the registry's officer list. Keith Lindsay Pollard is recorded as a director appointed 6 August 2003 and resigned 28 February 2018, and again as a director appointed 25 April 2019. The company was incorporated 6 August 2003 as Trekwell Ltd, named Intuition Communication Limited from 22 August 2003 to 5 March 2018, LaingBuisson International Limited from 5 March 2018, Healthcare Business Intelligence Limited from 26 June 2018 to 13 May 2019, and dissolved 14 March 2023. Officer dates of birth are published there and are deliberately not carried in this directorys:er-apiOpen Exchange Rates API (open.er-api.com), ExchangeRate-API · link (read 2026-09-16)
one dated rate table; every converted price on the site names the dates:osmOpenStreetMap, OpenStreetMap contributors · link (read 2026-09-16) (ODbL 1.0)
hospital, clinic and dental points around each hub, fetched by tools/harvest_osm.pys:wb-oop-shareOut-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure) — indicator SH.XPD.OOPC.CH.ZS, World Bank Open Data · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY 4.0)
definition read off https://api.worldbank.org/v2/indicator/SH.XPD.OOPC.CH.ZS?format=json; source organisation given as the WHO Global Health Expenditure Database, updated December 12th, 2025s:worldbank-oop-indicatorOut-of-pocket expenditure (% of current health expenditure), indicator SH.XPD.OOPC.CH.ZS, World Bank Open Data, from the WHO Global Health Expenditure Database · link (read 2026-09-17)
definition and the source database read off the World Bank indicator API on 17 September 2026; the API records the WHO database as updated 12 December 2025s:wb-physiciansPhysicians (per 1,000 people) — indicator SH.MED.PHYS.ZS, World Bank Open Data · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY 4.0)
definition and source organisation read off the indicator metadata endpoint https://api.worldbank.org/v2/indicator/SH.MED.PHYS.ZS?format=json — 'Physicians include generalist and specialist medical practitioners'; sourced from WHO Global Health Workforce Statistics, the OECD and country datas:sef-registro-2022Registro Nacional de Actividad 2022 — Registro SEF, Técnicas de Reproducción Asistida (FIV/ICSI and IA), Sociedad Española de Fertilidad for the Spanish Ministry of Health; the official national ART registry · link (read 2026-09-16)
section 3.20: 27,564 fresh and frozen cycles in 2022 were for patients resident in other countries — France 39.0%, Italy 20.6%, the United Kingdom 9.0%, Germany 6.4%, Morocco 0.6%, Portugal 0.3%, other 18.3%, country not recorded 5.7%. Of those cycles 52.3% used donated eggs. The reason for coming was not recorded in 90.8% of them; where it was, 1.6% named a technique unlawful at home and 1.1% a patient who did not meet the legal conditions at home.s:ngram-namingRelative frequency of medical tourism, health tourism, medical travel and wellness tourism in the Google Books English 2019 corpus, Google Books Ngram Viewer · link (read 2026-09-17)
queried directly against the JSON endpoint, smoothing 0. The crossover year is 2005. Pre-1980 non-zero values in this corpus are OCR noise and are not read as attestationss:un-tourism-statisticsTourism Statistics Database, UN Tourism (World Tourism Organization) · link (read 2026-09-17)
the Yearbook and Compendium of Tourism Statistics, which the World Bank republishes as ST.INT.ARVLs:tuik-turizm-2026q2Turizm İstatistikleri, II. Çeyrek: Nisan-Haziran, 2026 (Sayı 58143), Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TurkStat) 2026 · link (read 2026-09-17)s:tuik-turizm-2025Turizm İstatistikleri, IV. Çeyrek: Ekim-Aralık ve Yıllık, 2025 (Sayı 54158) — table: Departing Visitors by Purpose of Visit, 2012–2026, Türkiye İstatistik Kurumu (TurkStat) 2026 · link (read 2026-09-17)
the health figure appears only in the attached statistical table, not in the bulletin text; its own footer names the source as the TurkStat Departing Visitors Survey — a border exit survey of stated purpose, not a count of patients treateds:oecd-waiting-sdmxWaiting times dataflow DSD_HEALTH_PROC@DF_WAITING, OECD SDMX API, OECD · link (read 2026-09-17)
the extract read for this project holds 6,609 observations, 24 countries, 2000-2024, 19 countries reporting for 2024; WTSP 3,925 observations and WTPA 2,684; the 2024 knee-replacement medians quoted in the record were read from its:worldbank-open-dataWorld Bank Open Data — health and tourism indicators, The World Bank · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY 4.0)
fetched by tools/harvest_worldbank.py; every indicator's own code and fetch date sit in data/harvest/worldbank.json
Article (5)
s:afp-horton-ndm1-2011'New Delhi' superbug unfairly named, admits editor, Agence France-Presse, via Medical Xpress, January 2011 · link (read 2026-09-17)
Richard Horton in Delhi: 'It was an error of judgement. We didn't think of its implications for which I sincerely apologise'; he said the name had unnecessarily stigmatised a single country and city, while standing by the studys:bbc-latchman-inquest-2026Anaesthetic linked to hair transplant man's death — Brian Farmer, BBC News 2026 · link (read 2026-09-17)s:newswise-pbb-2020Healthy Travel Media announces fourth edition of Patients Beyond Borders, Newswise (press release from Healthy Travel Media), 21 January 2020 · link (read 2026-09-17)
describes Josef Woodman as 'CEO of Patients Beyond Borders'; names Healthy Travel Media as publisher and Calvander Communications as parent; the fourth edition covers '800 medical centers and clinics in 70 countries'; carries the claims that the market is 'expanding at 15-18% annually' and that 'more than two million US patients will cross borders for medical care' in 2020, neither with a methods:aljazeera-ndm1-india-2010India rejects superbug claims, Al Jazeera, 13 August 2010 · link (read 2026-09-17)
carries the Indian health ministry statement refuting the naming of the enzyme and the safety claim, and V M Katoch of the Indian Council of Medical Researchs:haider-2025-hair-transplant-tourismThe Allures and the Alarms of the Hair Transplant Tourism Industry — Haider SA, Hasanzade S, Borna S, et al., Aesthetic Plastic Surgery 2025;49(17):4745–4753 2025 · link (read 2026-09-17)
a narrative review; its widely repeated billion-dollar figure traces to a 2015 magazine article, and the review's own words for the sector are a data black hole
Book (1)
s:cohen-patients-with-passports-2014Patients with Passports: Medical Tourism, Law, and Ethics, Oxford University Press, 2014 (Cohen IG), ISBN 9780199975099 · link (read 2026-09-16)
Wikipedia (76)
s:wp-acibademAcıbadem Healthcare Group, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
founded 1991 by Mehmet Ali Aydınlar; IHH Healthcare took a majority stake in 2011 and holds about 90 per cent after the 2018 share conversions; 29 hospitals and 15 medical centres; flagship Acıbadem Altunizade, Üsküdar, Istanbuls:wp-all-on-4All-on-4, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
states that the name All-on-4 is a registered trademark of Nobel Biocare, used globally for both dental products and services; four implants, the back two tilted about 30 to 45 degrees, prosthesis placed within about 24 hours. The article carries editorial notices about promotional tone.s:wp-ammanAmman, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, population five million as of 2024; West Amman named as the modern economic centre against the historic easts:wp-anadoluAnadolu Medical Center, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
opened 12 February 2005 by the Anadolu Foundation, affiliated with Johns Hopkins Medicine International; 209 beds plus 59 intensive care beds and 8 operating rooms; Gebze, Kocaelis:wp-antalyaAntalya, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, metropolitan population 2,722,103 (2024), Muratpaşa, Konyaaltı and Kepez districts, Lara beach, 16.5 million foreign visitors in 2023s:wp-apollo-hospitalsApollo Hospitals, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-asan-medical-centerAsan Medical Center, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-balcovaBalçova, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
district 8 km west of Konak, population 80,721 (2022); the sulphurous hot springs known in antiquity as the Baths of Agamemnon, now built around a hotel, the waters held good for rheumatism, sciatica, gallstones and eczemas:wp-bangkok-hospitalBangkok Hospital, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-barcelonaBarcelona, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, population 1,686,208 (2024), the ten districts including Eixample, Ciutat Vella, Gràcia and Sarrià-Sant Gervasi; describes the city as the main biotech hub in Spains:wp-budapestBudapest, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, population 1,685,209 (2025), 23 districts in Roman numerals, Buda and Pest split by the Danube, more than 100 medicinal geothermal springss:wp-bumrungradBumrungrad International Hospital, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-cairoCairo, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, city population about 9.8 million (2023) and Greater Cairo over 22 million; Garden City, Zamalek, Heliopolis and Downtown Cairo as the early-twentieth-century districtss:wp-chariteCharité — Universitätsmedizin Berlin, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
founded 1710; joint medical faculty of the Free University of Berlin and the Humboldt University; about 3,000 beds over four campuses — Charité Mitte, Benjamin Franklin in Lichterfelde, Virchow-Klinikum in Wedding and Berlin-Buch; 18,217 employees including 5,242 academic staff and 307 professors; annual budget 2.3 billion euro; Newsweek's 2026 list places it in the top 250s:dnv-wikipediaDNV, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
1864 founding, Høvik headquarters, ownership by the Det Norske Veritas Foundation, and the Business Assurance division that certifies American hospitalss:dha-wikipediaDubai Health Authority, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
formed 2007 under Law 13, launched March 2008, successor to the Department of Health and Medical Services of 1973; operates Latifa, Dubai, Rashid and Hatta hospitalss:eurostat-wikipediaEurostat, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
Directorate-General of the European Commission, based in the Kirchberg district of Luxembourg Citys:wp-gangnam-districtGangnam District, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-gleneagles-klGleneagles Hospital Kuala Lumpur, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-hadassahHadassah Medical Center, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
founded 1934, owned and largely funded by the Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America; two Jerusalem campuses, Mount Scopus opened 1939 and Ein Kerem established 1961; over 1,300 beds in total, 31 operating theatres, 9 intensive care units; teaching hospital of the Hebrew University; Newsweek 2025 placed it 242nd in the worlds:wp-health-georgiaHealth in Georgia (country), Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
universal coverage from 2013 over a largely privatised hospital estate; the State Regulation Agency for Medical Activities licenses facilities and professionals; 12,830 hospital beds by 2015s:wp-health-in-jordanHealth in Jordan, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
carries the 2007 and 2008 inbound patient counts of roughly 250,000 and the World Bank's regional ranking; the counts are nearly two decades old and their method is not stated on the pages:wp-healthcare-georgiaHealthcare in Georgia (country), Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-healthcare-singaporeHealthcare in Singapore, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-healthcare-sri-lankaHealthcare in Sri Lanka, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-healthcare-tunisiaHealthcare in Tunisia, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
states the private sector holds 12% of total bed capacity and 70% of the top-range medical equipment, and that medical travel is the country's second largest employer and second highest foreign currency earner — a claim the page does not date or attribute to a statistics offices:wp-heidelberg-uhHeidelberg University Hospital, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
medical teaching at Heidelberg from 1388; an independent public-law institution with its own board, financially separate from the university; 1,991 beds as of 2020; over one million patients a year; Im Neuenheimer Feld; the heavy ion therapy centre and the National Center for Tumor Diseases; Newsweek 2026 placed it 12th in the worlds:wp-angeles-tijuanaHospital Angeles Tijuana, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
opened 2005, Grupo Ángeles, Zona Río, eleven floors, 49 metres, 29,108 square metres, built 2002 to 2004, the first hospital in the city with a heliport. The article carries no bed count and no accreditation.s:wp-hospital-cimaHospital CIMA, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
opened 2000, owned by International Hospital Corporation, 103 beds, tertiary acute care, JCI accredited with no year givens:wp-albert-einsteinHospital Israelita Albert Einstein, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
society founded 1955 by members of the São Paulo Jewish community, hospital inaugurated 28 July 1971, run by the Sociedade Beneficente Israelita Brasileira Albert Einstein as a private nonprofit that also treats SUS patients; first health institution outside the United States accredited by JCI, in 1999; Morumbi, São Paulo. No bed, staff or patient counts on the page.s:wp-hospital-nacionalHospital Nacional (Panama City), Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
opened 9 July 1973 as Clínica Nacional, renamed Hospital Nacional on 20 August 1998 at Avenida Cuba between 38th and 39th Streets; 80 beds including 8 adult and 5 paediatric intensive care beds and a 5-bed neonatal unit; an International Insurances Department handling foreign insurance programmess:imtj-wikipediaInternational Medical Travel Journal, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
established 2007, UK trade publication, biweekly newsletter, Keith Pollard as editor in chief, annual Medical Travel Awards; imtj.com refused every fetch on this dates:wp-island-hospitalIsland Hospital, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-istanbulIstanbul, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, population 15,754,053 at 31 December 2025, district namess:wp-johannesburgJohannesburg, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, population 4,803,262 at the 2022 census; Sandton, Rosebank, Parktown and Houghton among the northern suburbss:jci-wikipediaJoint Commission International, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
used for the 1998 founding, the Joint Commission Resources affiliation, the quoted average annual fee and the announced-survey criticism; jointcommissioninternational.org redirected to jointcommission.org, which refused every fetch on this dates:wp-khccKing Hussein Cancer Center, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
Queen Rania Street, Amman; 352 beds; JCI accreditation, College of American Pathologists, ANCC Magnet and AAHRPP, none of them dated on the page; coordinates 32.0045, 35.8750s:wp-kokilabenKokilaben Dhirubhai Ambani Hospital, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:mhtc-wikipediaMalaysia Healthcare Travel Council, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
set up 2005, incorporated as an independent entity 2011, moved from the Ministry of Health to the Ministry of Finance in 2018, and the 2019 arrivals figure; mhtc.org.my returned HTTP 500 on this dates:wp-max-healthcareMax Healthcare, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-medantaMedanta, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-medical-tourismMedical tourism, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
the field's general article; used in this batch only for the Singapore foreign-patient expenditure figures, which it attributes to reporting rather than to a government release.s:wp-medical-travelMedical tourism, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
used only for the figures it attributes to a named reference: Mosonmagyaróvár's dental clinic count, a Lithuanian hip replacement at £3,340 against a British commercial price roughly three times it, and Tunisia's thalassotherapy ranking. Its country-level traffic figures rest on market-research summaries and are not carried here.s:wp-medical-tourism-indiaMedical tourism in India, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
carries city-share and market-size figures sourced to newspapers and market-research summaries; this project reads it for the claims and their attributions, not as a count.s:wp-medical-tourism-israelMedical tourism in Israel, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
carries 15,000 inbound patients in 2006 and 30,000 in 2010 cited to Haaretz, and about $140 million of income in 2012 cited to USA Today; states that medical travel agents must register with the Israeli government, citing gov.il, a page this project could not opens:wp-medical-tourism-south-koreaMedical tourism in South Korea, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
quotes the Korea Health Industry Development Institute's annual counts of registered foreign patients; the article does not break them down by district.s:wp-medical-tourism-turkiyeMedical tourism in Turkey, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
records the 13 July 2017 regulation coming into force and a first-half-2018 figure of nearly 178,000 inbound patients split 67% private, 24% public and 9% university — a count of arrivals stating a health purpose, not of operationss:wp-mosonmagyarovarMosonmagyaróvár, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
about 350 practising dentists as of 2015, cited to The Guardian; states that official Hungarian government figures show 160,000 Austrians crossing the border yearly for dental cares:wp-mount-elizabethMount Elizabeth Hospital, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-narayana-healthNarayana Health, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-narayana-health-2Narayana Health, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:nabh-wikipediaNational Accreditation Board for Hospitals & Healthcare Providers, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
2005 establishment under the Quality Council of India, the two-year reassessment interval, and the count of accredited hospitalss:wp-ntuhNational Taiwan University Hospital, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-netcareNetcare, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
founded 1996, headquartered in Sandton, Johannesburg; 49 hospitals, 55 Medicross clinics, 5 Prime Cure centres and 15 Akeso psychiatric facilities in South Africas:wp-nicosiaNicosia, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, municipal population 111,797 (2021) and urban 256,119; the Green Line and UN buffer zone; Ledra Palace crossing opened 23 April 2003 and Ledra Street 3 April 2008s:wp-north-nicosiaNorth Nicosia, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
the de facto capital of Northern Cyprus, administered from Lefkoşa District, claimed by the Republic of Cyprus; Dereboyu Avenue is its modern commercial spines:oecd-wikipediaOECD, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
founded 1961 as successor to the OEEC of 1948, 38 member countries, headquarters at the Château de la Muette in Pariss:wp-phuket-provincePhuket Province, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-praguePrague, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, population 1,407,084 at 1 January 2026, 10 municipal and 22 administrative districts, Vinohrady, Karlín, Smíchov and Motols:wp-raffles-hospitalRaffles Hospital, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-samitivejSamitivej Hospital, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-samsung-medical-centerSamsung Medical Center, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-shebaSheba Medical Center, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-17) (CC BY-SA 4.0)
founded 1948 as Israel's first military hospital, civilian from 1953 under Chaim Sheba, government-affiliated, Tel HaShomer in Ramat Gan on an 800-dunam campus; about 1,580 beds, about 1,700 physicians and 12,000 other healthcare workers; over 1,000,000 patient visits a year including 200,000 emergency visits; Global Patient Services treats patients from over 100 countries; Newsweek ranked it 8th in the world in 2025s:wp-sopronSopron, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, population 62,116 (2022), 70 km from Vienna and 77 km from Bratislava, bilingual Hungarian and German street signs. Its dental-clinic count — more than 300, with the phrase dental capital of the world — is cited by Wikipedia to a 2005 USA Today piece and to a dead travel column, and is carried here as trade reputation rather than a count anybody published.s:wp-surrogacy-lawsSurrogacy laws by country, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
states that Georgia permits altruistic and commercial surrogacy for domestic and international intended parents, restricted to couples married or in a domestic relationship of at least a year, and that Georgia absorbed clients from Ukraine after 2022; states surrogacy is unregulated in Czechia. No article or section number is given on the page for the Georgian instrument.s:wp-tvghTaipei Veterans General Hospital, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-tata-memorialTata Memorial Hospital, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16) (CC BY-SA 4.0)s:wp-tbilisiTbilisi, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, population 1,369,400 (2026); Vake, Saburtalo and Mtatsminda districts, with Vera inside Mtatsmindas:wp-tel-avivTel Aviv, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, population 494,900 (2024), the Neve Tzedek and Neve Shalom neighbourhoodss:wp-souraskyTel Aviv Sourasky Medical Center, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
founded 1963, public, 1,171 beds as of 2020 per Israel Ministry of Health data, commonly called Ichilov; coordinates 32°04′50″N 34°47′24″Es:wp-tunisTunis, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, city population 693,210 (2024) and metropolitan 2,885,040; fifteen municipal districts including El Menzah and the Medinas:wp-vilniusVilnius, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, population 619,405 at 1 July 2026, twenty elderships including Senamiestis, Naujamiestis and Žirmūnais:wp-warsawWarsaw, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, population 1,866,729 at 31 December 2025, the 18 districts including Śródmieście, Mokotów, Wola and Ochotas:who-wikipediaWorld Health Organization, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
established 7 April 1948, Geneva headquarters, World Health Assembly of 193 member statess:wp-izmirİzmir, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
coordinates, city population 2,938,292 (2024), the urban districts including Konak, Bornova, Balçova, Karşıyaka and Narlıderes:wp-sisliŞişli, Wikipedia · link (read 2026-09-16)
district area 10 km², population 276,528 (2022), the Nişantaşı, Teşvikiye, Mecidiyeköy and Pangaltı quarters, Şişli Etfal and Saint James Armenian hospitals
Law (14)
s:cacr-515-56031 CFR § 515.560 — Travel-related transactions to, from, and within Cuba by persons subject to U.S. jurisdiction, Cuban Assets Control Regulations, US Department of the Treasury, via Cornell Legal Information Institute · link (read 2026-09-16)
twelve categories of authorised travel; paragraph (f) states that nothing in the section authorises transactions in connection with tourist travel to Cuba; a note to the section authorises the receipt of emergency medical servicess:ecfr-42-416-5242 CFR 416.52 — Conditions for coverage: patient admission, assessment and discharge (ambulatory surgical centers), Electronic Code of Federal Regulations, US Office of the Federal Register · link (read 2026-09-17)
paragraph (c)(3) on discharge in the company of a responsible adult. Source note at the section: 73 FR 68813, 18 November 2008, as amended at 84 FR 51814, 30 September 2019. eCFR states Title 42 current as of 15 September 2026s:hipaa-access-164-52445 CFR § 164.524 — Access of individuals to protected health information, Legal Information Institute, Cornell Law School · link (read 2026-09-16)
30 days to act, one 30-day extension on written notice, form and format as requested where readily producible, reasonable cost-based fees:dubai-resolution-14-2017Administrative Resolution No. (14) of 2017 Approving the Bylaw for Sending Patients for Overseas Medical Treatment, Government of Dubai Legislation portal · link (read 2026-09-16)
issued 6 February 2017 by the Director General of the Dubai Health Authority; sets eligibility, what the state pays, escort entitlement and a daily allowance schedule by destination countrys:gdpr-art-15Article 15 — Right of access by the data subject, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), gdpr-info.eu, consolidated text of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 · link (read 2026-09-16)
read for the right to obtain a copy of personal data undergoing processing, and the fee permitted for further copiess:gdpr-art-20Article 20 — Right to data portability, Regulation (EU) 2016/679 (GDPR), gdpr-info.eu, consolidated text of Regulation (EU) 2016/679 · link (read 2026-09-16)
applicable when processing rests on consent or on a contract and is carried out by automated means; direct controller-to-controller transmission only where technically feasibles:eurlex-2011-24-ojDirective 2011/24/EU of the European Parliament and of the Council of 9 March 2011 on the application of patients' rights in cross-border healthcare — Official Journal text, Official Journal of the European Union, L 88/45, 4.4.2011 · link (read 2026-09-17)
read in the OJ PDF: Article 7(1) and 7(4) on reimbursement up to the home level, Article 8(1)(2)(5) on prior authorisation and the medically justifiable time limit, Article 6 on national contact points, Article 21 transposition by 25 October 2013, Article 22 entry into force on the 20th day after publication, signed at Strasbourg 9 March 2011 by J. BUZEK and GYORI E.s:dir-2011-24-chapter-iiDirective 2011/24/EU, Chapter II — responsibilities of the Member State of treatment and of affiliation, Articles 4 to 6, legislation.gov.uk, retained text of Directive 2011/24/EU · link (read 2026-09-16)
read for Art 4(2)(b) invoices and prices, 4(2)(c) complaints and redress, 4(2)(d) professional liability insurance, 4(2)(f) copy of the medical record, 5(d) access to records, and Art 6 national contact pointss:loc-israel-medical-tourism-lawIsrael: Knesset Passes Medical Tourism Legislation, Library of Congress, Global Legal Monitor · link (read 2026-09-16)
names the instrument as the Medical Tourism Law, 5778-2018, passed 18 July 2018. The page would not open for this project on the access date — a bot check stood in front of it — so the provisions here were taken from the Israeli Ministry of Health's own summary and flagged for verification against the statute.s:dha-law-6-2018Law No. (6) of 2018 Concerning the Dubai Health Authority, Government of Dubai Legal Affairs Department 2018 · link (read 2026-09-16)
the current constituting law; licensing of health facilities sits with the Authority, and the law repeals any contradicting provision in other legislations:tc-portugal-225-2018Ruling 225/2018 (Acórdão n.º 225/2018) — medically assisted procreation, donor anonymity and surrogacy, Tribunal Constitucional, Portugal · link (read 2026-09-16)
the court's own English summary page. The challenge ran against Law 32/2006 as amended by Laws 17/2016 and 25/2016: Article 8 on gestational surrogacy and Article 15 on donor anonymity, argued against the child's right to know its origins under Article 26 of the Constitution.s:salgo-1957Salgo v. Leland Stanford Jr. University Board of Trustees, 154 Cal. App. 2d 560, 317 P.2d 170 (Cal. Ct. App., 22 October 1957), CourtListener, Free Law Project · link (read 2026-09-17)
case name, citations, court and filing date verified through the CourtListener search API on 17 September 2026; the opinion text itself was not read for this records:schloendorff-1914Schloendorff v. Society of the New York Hospital, 211 N.Y. 125, 105 N.E. 92 (N.Y. Court of Appeals, 14 April 1914), CourtListener, Free Law Project · link (read 2026-09-17)
citations, court and date verified through the CourtListener search API on 17 September 2026s:tr-health-tourism-regulation-2017Uluslararası Sağlık Turizmi ve Turistin Sağlığı Hakkında Yönetmelik, Resmî Gazete, Sayı 30123 2017 · link (read 2026-09-16)
13 July 2017; read in the original. Article 5 makes the authorisation certificate compulsory for facilities and intermediaries; Article 6 sets the international health tourism unit and its language staffing; Article 10 has the Ministry set the price tariff; Article 11 requires an itemised invoice with unit prices; Article 12 restricts advertising; Article 14 requires inspection at least once a year