For people in the UK and North America weighing a trip to China
Is a health check in China worth it for you?
NHS and Canadian waits for a scan run from weeks to many months. A private assessment at home is often £869–£929. This site helps you do the arithmetic before you fly, and, if you have already named a hospital for major treatment, writes an English decision roadmap.
Not in our list? Type it anyway — we can check any hospital.
ChinaClarity is an information product, not medical advice. No hospital pays us to appear.
ChinaClarity Clinic ReportSample report
An independent report on
Ruijin Hospital
CAR-T cell therapy · 🇨🇳 Shanghai, China
Inside this report
- The short version2
- Where is it, and how would I get there?3
- Where would I stay, and what do I need to know?4
- What would the whole trip look like?5
- Is the hospital properly registered, and who owns it?6
and 11 more questions
Bring it home
What has to travel back with you?
- Public register entry, with the date checked
- What is unknown, left unknown
- How to ask for the English report and imaging files
The full report: 20 pages, in your account within 3 business days. Every answer has its source and the date we checked. Read the sample structure or see its free summary.
A health check, or a hospital you have already named.
The free check is about price and travel. The USD 149 Clarity Report is a decision roadmap for one hospital. Both stop at information. Neither is a booking.
Health check
Free, then USD 19 / 39 / 59 as pre-orders
- Beat a published home price, using your own fare
- A sourced shortlist when we have public package pages
- English report and imaging files on the bring-home list
1. No diagnosis yet
For a check-up or a scan, start with the worth-it check. We do not publish star ratings or made-up review counts.
How would I get there?
- Airport
- Ask which one they expect
- Flight time
- Check the airline
- Taxi time
- Not published here
- Hotel
- We do not book one
2. Getting there
The trip plan covers booking, an international desk, and how you pay. Visa rules depend on your passport. Confirm them with the embassy. We do not book the flight.
What happens after I fly home?
- Ask who does the check-ups after you fly home
- Ask your own insurer what they will pay
- Ask your doctor when you may fly
- Ask for the report and the imaging files
3. Coming home
Aftercare back home, what to do if something goes wrong, medication export rules, and the 15 questions to send the hospital in writing before you pay.
Public wait and price anchors
These figures are from NHS England, the Fraser Institute, Bupa, and Nuffield. They are not ChinaClarity measurements, and they are not a promise about any hospital in China.
What you get in our report
Officially registered, and who owns it
We check the National Health Commission register, which administration it belongs to, whether it has an international department, and who runs it.
Which doctors operate on you
We list the doctors who operate at the hospital, verify their licenses on the National Doctor Registry, and what they specialise in.
Independence feasibility assessment (not ranking)
We tell you what makes this focus hospital different from 2–3 evidence-backed alternatives, in a short factual comparison — but we never rank, rate, or recommend.
What the trip looks like
Getting there — visa reality
China has no medical visa. Most foreign patients enter on S2 (short-term humanitarian), Q2 (family visit), or transit. We explain what each actually means and what the hospital needs from you.
Where to stay, and how to book
Hotels near major hospitals, prices, and whether you can book without a Chinese phone number (you usually can't — we give the workarounds).
Questions that are easy to miss
Whether the hospital will see a foreign patient, how you book without a Chinese mobile number, how you pay, and whether the report and imaging files come home with you.
What happens after you fly home
Your aftercare at home
Who does your check-ups, what your home insurance will and won't cover, and how to get your medical records translated out of China.
If something goes wrong
Complications abroad, what your travel insurance actually covers, how to get a refund from the hospital, and your home country's embassy contact in China.
15 questions to ask before you pay
From invoice red seals (required for reimbursement) to WeChat booking workarounds — a written checklist covering the questions that matter only in China.
One ladder, two lines
Health checks start free. The Clarity Report is USD 149 and is paid once through PayPal after intake.
- R0
Worth-it check · Free
Compare a published home price with your own travel estimate. It does not quote a Chinese hospital package.
- R1
Check-up shortlist · USD 19
A Beijing or Shanghai shortlist of public check-up providers, each with the source link and the date the price was read.
- R2
Health-check trip plan · USD 39
A four-to-seven day plan for a check-up in Beijing or Shanghai: what to book, how payment usually works, and what to carry home.
- R3
Bring-it-home screening plan · USD 59
The trip plan, plus the extra steps for a higher-spec scan and for using the files after you land at home.
- R4
Clarity Report · USD 149
A 20-page English decision roadmap for one hospital, plus a short factual note on two or three alternatives. Not a health check, and not medical advice.
Major treatment · decision roadmap
- One focus hospital, plus a short factual note on 2–3 alternatives
- Public-record facts only. Unknown stays unknown
- Home wait and price context, so you can see what USD 149 is for
- English report and imaging files: a checklist, not a guarantee
- Questions to send the hospital before you pay a deposit
- A person checks the cited sources. That is not a medical review
After PayPal approval, verified payment and complete intake: a 20-page English PDF in your account within 3 business days. No medical records or ID required. One free limited-scope revision within 7 days of delivery. Refunds apply only in the three defined cases in our Refund Policy.
Complete the intake first; PayPal Smart Buttons appear on the confirmation page.
PayPal payment is only attempted after you approve it in the PayPal window. No hospital pays us anything or gets to edit content. See our Refund Policy and Non-Medical Advice. Not ready? See how it works.
Two jobs, both paid for by the reader
A health-check plan for people who have no diagnosis, and a hospital roadmap for people who already have one. Neither is medical advice.
Patients pay. Hospitals do not.
A hospital cannot buy a place on a page, a kinder paragraph, or a higher spot in the directory.
Sources are named and dated
A health-authority list, a hospital page, or an explicit gap. Each fact carries the day we read it.
No stars, no ranking
We do not score a hospital. If a number is not in a public source, the page says it is unknown.
Not medical advice
Decisions about treatment stay between you and your qualified doctors.
Who pays us
You do. We are paid only by foreign patients who buy a report. No hospital, clinic or pharmaceutical company pays us anything. Every report is signed by 锐泽 · Ray, founder & lead researcher. A person checks cited sources before a report is signed. That is a source check, not a medical review.
Read the full trust principlesWhat we never do
- — Rank, score or recommend any hospital
- — Use patient testimonials as endorsements
- — Read scans, review X-rays or give treatment advice
- — Let a hospital pay to appear or edit a report
Grade 3A hospitals with a free summary
27 free summaries across 10 cities. The wider directory count is on the hospital database, and it is counted from the files. Browse all hospitals →
By treatment
By city
Listed, not ranked. Counts are the free summaries on this site, checked against each hospital's public pages. Review charts and package prices are not published here.
No. ChinaClarity is an information product. We don't judge clinical quality, read scans or X-rays, or tell you whether to have treatment in China. We report what official records, the hospital's website and public sources show, so you can ask the right questions. All treatment decisions stay between you and qualified doctors.
A paid report, once payment exists, is written around the hospital you name and the questions you send. It does not choose your visa or clear a medicine. You confirm both with the hospital and with your own authorities.
It covers the hospital's public record, the questions to ask about the trip, and what to ask about records after you fly home. It does not book flights or hotels, and it does not score the hospital.
Then you have it in writing, from someone the hospital doesn't pay, with the 15 critical questions that settle details before you pay a deposit. Refunds are handled only under the defined cases in our Refund Policy.
Yes. Use the 15-questions page, or email chinaclarity2026@gmail.com. For the USD 149 report, complete the intake first; PayPal checkout follows on the confirmation page.
Yes. Type its name and press Check my hospital, then tell us the city. Same report, same price. If we cannot produce the report after complete intake and verified payment, that is one of the defined refund cases in our Refund Policy.
Only foreign patients who buy reports. No hospital, clinic, agency or pharmaceutical company pays us anything. Any attempted influence is investigated and disclosed; refunds follow only the defined cases in our Refund Policy.
Available in your account within 3 business days after we receive your complete intake. 20-page English PDF. One free limited-scope revision within 7 days of delivery. Refunds apply only in the three defined cases in our Refund Policy.
Two ways to start
A free health-check arithmetic, or a USD 149 roadmap if you have already named a hospital. The report is paid once through PayPal after intake.
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Not chosen a clinic yet? Start with the 15 questions