In this guide
We start from primary sources
Government agencies, hospitals’ own published prices, official screening guidelines and peer-reviewed studies come first. When we rely on journalism, industry data or a third-party guide, we say so next to the number.
Every number is dated
Prices, rules and travel advisories change. Each guide lists its sources, and each figure is tied to the date we found it. Where a price is a quote, we say when it was quoted.
We keep guides current
Time-sensitive guides, such as entry rules, Medicare, prices and health policy, are reviewed at least every three months, and straight away when a rule changes. The date at the top of each guide shows the last review.
We start from screening guidelines
When a guide discusses which tests people consider, we start from the US Preventive Services Task Force recommendations and label everything else as optional. More tests are not automatically better.
We don’t give medical advice
We don’t diagnose, interpret test results or tell you which tests you need. Our guides help you ask your own doctor better questions, and we encourage you to review any plan with them.
How we are paid
We don’t run ads and nobody pays to appear in a guide. When we introduce travelers to licensed partners abroad, partners, never travelers, pay us a disclosed referral fee, at the same rate for every partner in a country. We will publish the rate and the partners on this page before the first introduction.
Photographs and video
Our photographs and video loops show real places, and each caption says where. Photographs come from Unsplash and video from Pexels, and every photographer is credited where their work appears. Until our partners give us permission to show their facilities, nothing on this site shows a partner hospital.
Corrections
If you find an error, tell us and we will check it promptly. Significant corrections are noted at the end of the guide, with the date. hello@eastandwell.com
Joe Yang, PhD, Economics. Joe Yang holds a PhD in economics from the University of Washington. For four years Joe evaluated the costs and savings of US health programs for insurers and employers at a health-analytics company, and before that studied pricing and demand as an economist at Amazon and a data scientist at Oracle. These guides apply the same discipline to a simpler question: what care really costs, and where.