About us
A coordinator between you and a system you cannot read
China's hospitals are excellent and hard to navigate from abroad. China Med Buddy exists to close that gap in English — without pretending the trip is simple.
Most international patients do not fail to find a hospital in China. They fail at the practical middle: which department actually treats their condition, what the hospital needs before it will schedule them, how the price is built, and who is responsible when a document does not arrive.
We started in 2025 as a small independent operation focused on four cities — Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen — and on the treatment categories where international patients most often travel: health screening and imaging, dental implants and full-arch work, cardiac and orthopaedic surgery, oncology second opinions and fertility care.
We do not employ doctors and we do not provide medical care. We translate records, approach international departments, compare what comes back, and hold the timeline in one thread so that you are not coordinating five hospitals by email in three languages.
In this first phase, enquiries and written plans are free. We would rather build a track record of honest plans than charge for access before we have earned it.
The short version
- What we are
- An independent medical travel coordination service, working in English.
- What we are not
- A hospital, clinic, insurer or medical provider. Nothing here is medical advice.
- Where we work
- Shanghai, Beijing, Guangzhou and Shenzhen.
- First reply
- Within 48–72 hours, written.
Principles
Four rules we do not bend.
01
Independent, not owned by a hospital
We are not a hospital group, a clinic or a referral agent tied to one provider. Our job is to help you compare, including telling you when a hospital is wrong for your case.
02
Ranges, never invented quotes
If a price has not been verified for a specific hospital and a specific case, we say so. A confident wrong number is worse than an honest range.
03
Written, in English
Hospital options, cost logic, timelines and what to prepare all arrive in writing. You can forward the plan to family, your doctor at home or your insurer.
04
You decide, we do not pressure
No deposits, no countdown timers, no calls you did not ask for. If your case is better treated at home, we will tell you that too.
How this site is built
No stock photos of smiling surgeons.
Hospital names, specialties and price logic are compiled from public sources and checked against what international departments actually publish. Where a figure has not been verified, it is left blank or labelled unverified. That is deliberate — and it is why some pages look less confident than competitor sites.
A note on trust
Medical travel has a reputation problem because too many intermediaries promise outcomes and hide costs. We cannot fix the industry, but we can keep our own claims boring and verifiable. If something on this site looks wrong, tell us and we will correct it.
Next step
Get a written plan, free
Send your email and a short note about your diagnosis or goal. A coordinator will reply within 48–72 hours with hospital options, an indicative cost range and a realistic timeline.
Prefer email? Write to [email protected]