ChinaMed Navigation

What we coordinate

Three layers of service.
You enter at whichever your situation demands.

Everything below is coordination, not medicine — we never touch prescriptions, never promise outcomes, and every hospital fee is paid by you, directly to the licensed institution.

Tier I · Pre-arrival

Feasibility & Clinical Briefing

$280 · up to 10 standard pages · $40/additional page · 100% creditable

Fifteen pages of MRI narratives and endocrinology panels are unreadable at a clinic counter — in any country. We condense your Western records into a 2-page structured Chinese clinical brief a chief physician can absorb in five minutes: history timeline, key markers, medication list, imaging conclusions, with mg/dL → mmol/L SI unit conversion and western drug-name mapping.

Delivered: 2-page bilingual clinical summary · pre-arrival feasibility roadmap · hospital & department routing · SI unit & generic-name conversion

Credited: the full $280 is deducted from any 30-Day Cycle Package you book.

Boundary: translation and structuring of records only — no diagnosis, no treatment advice.

Tier II · The full arc

Dual-Track 30-Day Cycle & Continuity Membership

$1,500 / $3,200 · 30-day standard / Pro · annual membership $1,500 / $3,600

Track A — All-Public IMD. Examination and treatment throughout a Grade-3A public hospital International Medical Department, with direct billing available from 30+ global insurers.
Track B — Public IMD workup + licensed private suite. Authoritative first consultation at the public IMD, then 45–60 minute depth consultations in the specialist's licensed multi-site private practice, arranged under multi-site practice rules with your written choice.

Delivered: full itinerary · therapy follow-ups · bilingual translation of hospital-issued ICD-10 diagnosis certificates & prescription lists for customs declaration · remote follow-up scheduling through the hospital's official internet hospital

Boundary: we coordinate; the licensed hospital treats. Outcomes belong to medicine, not to navigation.

Tier III · Bespoke

Executive & Family Mandate

From $8,000/day · or by case quote

Built for C-suite executives, family offices and multi-generational families from the Gulf states, Southeast Asia and Europe: multi-hospital and multi-specialist MDT consultation, dedicated private clinic suites, chauffeured logistics, and a full-time translational medicine advocate across the whole itinerary.

Delivered: multi-specialist MDT coordination · dedicated suite access · chauffeured logistics · continuous advocacy across hospitals

Boundary: bespoke fees cover translation, coordination and private ground logistics; all medical and diagnostic charges are settled directly with the licensed institutions.

Inside the $280 brief

From a western dossier to a brief
the chief physician can evaluate in five minutes.

Units, drug names and clinical terms — converted once, properly, before you fly.

ILLUSTRATIVE BRIEFING FORMAT SYNTHETIC DEMONSTRATION DATA — NO ACTUAL PATIENT RECORDS USED

Your western report arrives in conventional units and brand names the outpatient consultation cannot use. The brief re-expresses every value in Chinese SI units and maps every drug to its generic name — so the chief physician reads data, not arithmetic.

Raw western line	As presented to the chief physician	Why it matters
Glucose — 99 mg/dL	血糖 5.50 mmol/L	SI reference range is 3.90–6.10 mmol/L; the raw figure reads as uninterpretable on a Chinese chart
Creatinine — 0.78 mg/dL	肌酐 69 μmol/L	Renal dosing is calculated in μmol/L; a mg/dL value is not convertible at the counter
Fasting Insulin — 16.8 µIU/mL	空腹胰岛素 116.7 pmol/L (16.8 µIU/mL) · HOMA-IR 4.11 ↑	Converted to molar SI units (pmol/L) with the calculated HOMA-IR index — this is the number the chief physician actually reads
Euthyrox 50 mcg	左甲状腺素钠片 50 μg	Brand name carries no meaning on a Chinese prescription; the generic name is what the pharmacy stocks
TSH — 4.8 mIU/L	促甲状腺激素 4.8 mIU/L · 甲状腺功能减退	Value plus the Chinese clinical term the department routes on

Your complete dossier — history timeline, every abnormal marker annotated, medication list with interaction flags, imaging conclusions — is condensed to two pages a chief physician reads in five minutes.

How a 30-day medical trip actually runs

Before you fly, the hard part is already done.

Most medical travelers lose their first two days in China to registration desks and unread records. Our process front-loads everything.

Day −14 to −7 · Pre-arrival triage

Clinical brief & feasibility roadmap

Within 48 hours of receiving your records you get an initial feasibility reply — which department, which tier, what it costs, what to bring. The formal 2-page bilingual brief follows within 3–5 business days of complete file receipt.

Day 1–3 · Landing

First consultation at the IMD

Passport registration handled, interpreter at your side, chief physician reads your 2-page brief instead of a pile of paper.

Week 2–3 · Treatment arc

Therapy cadence & adjustment

Acupuncture, external therapy, herbal prescriptions on the rhythm the physician sets — every visit accompanied, every fee at the public counter price.

Final days · Departure

Documents & customs

We translate the hospital-issued English diagnosis certificate (ICD-10) and prescription list so you can clear customs with the hospital-dispensed granules you carry yourself. Covered: Singapore, Malaysia, UAE, Australia, EU, UK. ChinaMed Navigation never prescribes, dispenses, sells or ships any pharmaceuticals — all granules are prescribed by licensed physicians and dispensed directly by the hospital pharmacy to the patient in person.

After you land · Year-round

Remote follow-ups

Continuity membership keeps your case with the same physician through the hospital's official telemedicine platform.

Published tariffs

Hospital prices are public.
Our fees are written down.
Nothing is bundled.

What care actually costs at a Grade-3A public TCM hospital in 2026 — before our coordination fee, which is listed separately and never hidden inside a hospital bill.

Item	Public hospital price (2026)	Source basis
Standard outpatient consultation, Grade-3A public TCM hospital	200–400 RMB ($28–$56)	Public price list
IMD senior chief physician consultation	600–1,200 RMB ($83–$165)	Public price list
10-session acupuncture / non-pharmacological course	$300–$700	Public price list
IMD direct billing	30+ global insurers	IMD agreements (Cigna Global, Bupa Global, Allianz Care, MSH China)
Herbal granules, take-home course	By prescription	Prescribed by a licensed physician; dispensed by the hospital pharmacy directly to the patient. We translate the documents only.

Coordination fees: Brief $280 (credited to cycle package) · Discovery $75/$200/$320 · Navigation $280/$500 per session · 30-Day Package $1,500/$3,200 · Claim Pack $200+ · Annual Membership $1,500/$3,600 · Bespoke Executive & Family Custom from $8,000/day. Full benchmark: costs page · Deep answers: 36-question FAQ · Long reads: guides.

The principal

Clinical precision, and a named principal who stays accountable.

Chengjun "Sam" Xu — Founder

M.S. in Translational Research, University of Pennsylvania (Perelman School of Medicine), 2022 · Master in Healthcare Management (MHM), UCAM, 2024 — Apostilled · PMP®, PMI, 2024–2027

Seven years directing specialty healthcare operations in China — the floor where patient flow, physician schedules and pricing are actually decided. A translational-medicine education taught me to move between clinical language and patient language; operations taught me where the system breaks for a foreigner holding a passport instead of a local ID.

I don't sell hospitals, and I don't take referral commissions. I read the admission system, translate your file before you land, and stand next to you at the counter. What the hospital charges, you pay at the window. What I charge is written on this page.

Method & discipline: independent & non-clinical — no prescriptions, no referral kickbacks, no outcome promises · records handled under confidentiality · every claim on this site tied to a public price source · full profile →

FAQ

The five questions
every medical traveler asks first.

Thirty-six answered in full on the FAQ page — these five decide most trips.

Is a public hospital in China safe and legitimate for a foreigner?

Yes — the top tier is the top tier. Grade-3A public hospitals are China's highest-rated institutions, where the country's chief physicians practice under public pricing. The IMD exists precisely for foreign patients: English-capable service, international card payment, senior physicians. What's risky are tourist-trap TCM shops — which we exist to route you around.

What does the whole thing actually cost?

Consultation at an IMD runs $83–$165; a 10-session acupuncture course $300–$700; our coordination layer is itemized on this page. A realistic two-week integrative stay lands around $2,200–$4,800 all-in (excluding airfare).

Does my international insurance work here?

Often, yes. Leading Grade-3A TCM IMDs maintain direct-billing agreements with 30+ international insurers (Cigna Global, Bupa Global, Allianz Care, MSH China). If direct billing doesn't apply, we assemble the four-piece claim set — Fapiao invoice, ICD-10 certificate, itemized bill, medical summary — insurer-ready ($200+ pack).

Do I need a visa?

Citizens of 49 countries — UK, Canada, Australia, NZ, Japan, Korea, 30+ European states — enter visa-free for 30 days (through December 31, 2026). Singapore, Malaysia, Thailand, UAE ride bilateral mutual-exemption agreements. US citizens: 240-hour transit visa-free or a standard visa.

Can I take prescribed herbal medicine home legally?

Yes, in the right form. Concentrated herbal granules dispensed directly to you by the hospital pharmacy, accompanied by the hospital's English diagnosis certificate (ICD-10) and prescription list, clear customs in Singapore, Malaysia, UAE, Australia, the EU and the UK. We never prescribe, dispense, sell or ship pharmaceuticals — we translate the hospital's documents for your customs declaration.

How to start

Three steps. The first costs nothing.

STEP 01

Send your records — free

Message with your situation and, if you have them, your records. Within 48 hours you get a feasibility reply: which department, which tier, what it costs.

STEP 02

$280 clinical brief

Your records become a chief-physician-ready Chinese brief + feasibility roadmap. The full fee is credited toward any cycle package.

STEP 03

Lock the itinerary

Flights booked on your side; registration, interpreter, therapy cadence and departure documents locked on ours.

Write to the founder — it lands in his own inbox

We reply within 48 hours. The first message you receive is a judgment, not a quotation.

Three layers of service.You enter at whichever your situation demands.