US vs China healthcare — price and speed, compared.

Trip calculator — how much could you save?

Pick one or more procedures and a city — add each procedure you need (for example, a scan, then surgery), and the procedure row adds them together. Type in the procedure box to search the A–Z list. Flights are auto-estimated from published fare bands (change the figure if you have your own quote); hotel rates are researched nightly averages by star tier; miscellaneous is a $100 flat allowance. The table shows three totals side by side — Budget (3-star), Standard (4-star) and Premium (5-star). On a phone, each tier is shown as its own card.

Formula (per tier): China total = sum of selected China procedure estimates (low–high) + optional general anesthesia + optional hospital stay (nights × daily rate) + flights (auto-estimated band, or your figure) + hotel nightly rate × nights + $100 miscellaneous (transit + food, flat). Savings vs US = summed US price range − China total — shown only where a US price exists for every selected procedure (100 of 100 procedures). All figures are estimates, not quotes.

Sources, checked Nov 7, 2026: hotel nightly rates are Trip.com weekday averages from its latest 12-month data, by star tier; flight bands are round-trip economy planning bands from KAYAK, Expedia, Priceline, Cheapflights and Mighty Travels route pages (best-sourced US hub: Los Angeles), checked Nov 4–7, 2026. The $100 miscellaneous figure is a flat allowance set by this site, not a researched price. General anesthesia: public-hospital fee schedules (provincial 医保局), per case with a 2-hour base — intubated ¥976–¥1,600 (~$146–$239), non-intubated ¥400–¥640 (~$60–$96); no published private-hospital anesthesia price exists. Hospital stay: public ward bed ¥29–¥120/day (typical tier-1 multi-bed ¥48–¥60, ~$7–$9); private room ¥6,998/day (~$1,046) from Beijing United Family Hospital's published Common Service Price List (updated Jan 1, 2026). Anesthesia and hospital-stay prices checked Nov 7, 2026, at ¥6.69 = $1. Not included in the totals: the Chinese visa fee — $140 for a US citizen (Chinese Consulate General in Los Angeles, fee schedule in force to Dec 31, 2026). Shenzhen 5-star note: Trip.com's $418/night average is well above the Agoda / KAYAK / BudgetYourTrip consensus of roughly $120–$175, so treat the Shenzhen Premium total as the high end.