Healthaford — The Real Cost of Medical Treatment in India

We only work with hospitals accredited by these bodies. The accreditation is theirs, not ours.

NABH

JCI

NABL

ISO 9001

NABH MVTF

Before anything else

We know how you got here

Almost nobody plans to fly abroad for surgery. Something happened, the treatment isn't available at home or costs more than you have, and now you're reading websites at two in the morning trying to work out who's real.

"How do I know you're real?"

Fair question. We publish our registration number, our address and our landline. You pay the hospital directly, never us. And we name the hospital we want to send your reports to before we send them.

See how we're paid

"Will anyone actually reply?"

The industry average for answering an international patient enquiry is 47 hours. We aim for 15 minutes. Not as a marketing line, but because you're making a frightening decision and waiting two days makes it worse.

Send us your reports

"What will it really cost?"

Every site quotes the surgery. Almost none quote the flights, the room for three weeks, the food, the taxis or the visa. We put all of it on one page, including what we've deliberately left out.

Work out the full cost

Case manager on a video call Real staff member at a desk, headset, laptop showing a scan. Warm daylight.

What a facilitator actually does

One person, your whole case

We aren't a hospital and we don't employ doctors. What we do is the coordination nobody else takes responsibility for, through one named person who knows your case rather than a call centre.

Read your reports and get real quotes. Two or three accredited hospitals, itemised, usually inside 24 hours.
Put you in front of the surgeon. A video call with the person who would operate, before you commit to flying.
Handle the visa. Invitation letter, medical visa, attendant visas, and the FRRO extension if treatment runs long.
Meet you at the airport. And arrange the apartment, the food, the driver and the interpreter.
Stay reachable. The same person, on WhatsApp, from your first message until you're home.

More about how we work

What we arrange

Nine specialties we know properly

We'd rather be genuinely good at nine things than list forty. These are the areas where India's hospitals are strongest and where we have the relationships to get you seen quickly.

Cardiology Department or equipment. No patients.

Cardiology

from $5,000

Angioplasty, bypass and valve surgery at high-volume accredited units.

Oncology Department or equipment. No patients.

Oncology

from $4,500

Surgery, chemotherapy, radiotherapy and advanced options including CAR-T.

Neurology Department or equipment. No patients.

Neurology

from $5,500

Brain tumour, spine, radiosurgery and deep brain stimulation.

Orthopaedics Department or equipment. No patients.

Orthopaedics

from $4,000

Knee and hip replacement, spinal fusion and arthroscopy.

Urology Department or equipment. No patients.

Urology

from $13,000

Stones, prostate surgery and living-donor kidney transplant.

Gynaecology Department or equipment. No patients.

Gynaecology

from $2,200

Hysterectomy, fibroids, endometriosis and prolapse repair.

Fertility & IVF Department or equipment. No patients.

Fertility & IVF

from $2,800

IVF, ICSI and donor programmes, priced per cycle.

Cosmetic Surgery Department or equipment. No patients.

Cosmetic Surgery

from $1,950

Board-certified plastic surgeons at accredited hospitals.

Dentistry Department or equipment. No patients.

Dentistry

from $350

Implants, full-arch restoration and cosmetic dentistry.

Why India

Not cheaper medicine. The same medicine, priced differently.

India's leading hospitals run at volumes most European units never see, use the same implants and the same protocols, and are accredited against the same international standards. What differs is the cost base, not the standard of care.

We'll also tell you when India isn't the right answer. If your treatment is available and affordable at home, stay home. That happens, and we say so.

60–80%: Typical saving against US prices, on the Indian government's own published figure
1,299: NABH-accredited hospitals to choose between
507k: International patients treated in India during 2025

Compare treatment costs

Hospital interior Modern atrium or theatre corridor. Clean, bright, unmistakably world-class.

Start to finish

How it actually goes

Six steps. You can stop at any of them, and most people take a few weeks over the first three.

You send your reports

Photographs on WhatsApp are fine. We'll tell you if anything's missing before going further.

We come back with options

Two or three hospitals, properly quoted, with the exclusions written down rather than buried.

You meet the surgeon

A video consultation with the person who would operate. Ask them anything. It costs nothing.

We sort the paperwork

Hospital invitation letter, your medical visa, and visas for whoever is coming with you.

You arrive

We meet you at the airport. The apartment is booked, the driver knows the route, the food is arranged.

You go home well

With your discharge summary, your medication, a follow-up plan, and a route back to your surgeon.

The three weeks nobody writes about

Most of your trip won't be spent in hospital

You'll be in India for three or four weeks and in a hospital bed for perhaps four days of it. The rest is an apartment, meals, taxis and waiting. That part decides whether the trip was bearable, and it's what we're actually built around.

Serviced apartment The kind of place we actually book. Kitchen, natural light.

Somewhere to stay

Within walking distance of the hospital where the area allows it. With a kitchen if you'd rather cook, and room for the family who came with you.

Food Halal, West African or Arab home cooking. Real plates, real table.

Food you recognise

Halal, vegetarian, Jain, low-salt, renal, diabetic. Tell us before you land and it's arranged. Recovery is hard enough without unfamiliar food.

Driver and interpreter Staff member helping a family into a car outside a hospital.

Getting around, and being understood

A driver for every appointment and an interpreter in the room when you need one. Arabic, Swahili, French and others on request.

The person, not the platform

You'll have one name and one number

Not a ticket system, and not a different agent each time you write. One case manager who has read your file, knows which hospital you chose and why, and knows what you're worried about.

They'll speak your language, or we'll put an interpreter on the call. And if they're asleep when you message at 3am, someone else who can see your file will answer.

A patient's own words belong here. We'll publish one when we have a real case and written consent, and not before.

Photo

No invented testimonials

Your case manager Real photograph of a named team member. The single most persuasive image on this site.

Money, said plainly

The number that includes everything

A hospital can tell you what surgery costs. Only someone arranging the whole trip can tell you what the trip costs. So we publish both, and we show what's excluded rather than letting you find out later.

Prices are ranges, not single figures, because two people having the same operation genuinely get different bills. Pretending otherwise would just make us the next company that quoted low and invoiced high.

Estimate your total cost How we price

Example — Total Knee Replacement Illustration · Nairobi → Delhi

                
                    Surgery & hospital expenses
                    Surgeon, theatre, implant, room and nursing                
                $4,000 – 6,300
            
                    Flights
                    2 travellers, return, 3 weeks' notice                
                $1,240 – 1,680
            
                    Accommodation
                    24 nights, within 2 km of the hospital                
                $600 – 1,080
            
                    Local food & transport
                    Including interpreter and hospital transfers                
                $432 – 672
            
                    Medical visa
                    Patient and 1 attendant                
                $60 – 90
            
                    Documentation
                    Invitation letter, FRRO paperwork, translations                
                $35 – 50
            
            Total landed cost
            $6,367 – 9,872
        
                Not included — and what could change it
                Extra days in hospital or ICU if there are complications
Anything a pre-operative test uncovers that we do not yet know about
Treatment for a second condition found during your stay
Follow-up care after you return home

Prepared by a named case manager · valid 30 days Reviewed 22 Jul 2026

Wherever you're flying from

Coming from your country

The visa route, the flight options and the price in your own currency all change depending on where you're starting from. So we work it out per country rather than giving everyone the same answer.

Bangladesh

Dhaka → India

Applied for in person at a visa centre. Up to 3 family members can travel with you.