Which hospitals cover your condition, what it will actually cost, how to reach the international department, and what the rankings actually mean — with every figure attributed to the source that published it.
The image is an illustration, not a photograph of a real patient.
There isn't one — and knowing why is the single most useful thing on this site. China's leading hospital reputation ranking stopped publishing first, second and third places years ago. It now assigns letter grades (A++++ to A) and states explicitly that hospitals sharing a grade are not ordered.
Read the full explanation →National Health Commission average, all patients nationwide
International departments are set self-pay in a private or international ward, and the communiqué has no private-ward line item at all — so expect to pay more than either figure. Full cost guide
International departments are priced separately by each hospital and run higher. Use this as a floor, not a quote.
Ordered by how thoroughly we have documented each hospital, weighted toward the things you can act on: a reputation ranking we could source, an international department we have on record, and a complete profile. This is an editorial ordering aid, not a clinical quality rating.
中国医学科学院北京协和医院
Endocrinology and metabolic disease · Rheumatology and immunology
中国医学科学院阜外医院
Cardiology and interventional cardiology · Cardiac surgery
复旦大学附属华山医院
Neurosurgery and neurology · Infectious disease
上海交通大学医学院附属瑞金医院
Haematology · Endocrinology and metabolic disease
中山大学肿瘤防治中心
Medical oncology · Radiation oncology
四川大学华西医院
General and hepatobiliary surgery · Oncology
首都医科大学附属北京天坛医院
Neurosurgery · Neurology
中山大学附属第一医院
Transplant surgery (liver, kidney, heart) · Vascular surgery
The cities with the most hospital profiles here, and how to reach them.
北京
上海
广州
深圳
沈阳
杭州
武汉
济南
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