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Eye Care (Ophthalmology) · İzmir, Turkey

Cataract Surgery cost in İzmir

Procedure from

$436

All-in from United States

≈ $2,070

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MPI · Procedure Index · how

Procedure price range · İzmir

Cheaper than 63% of cities pricing this

$436lowest $436typical $436highest

Updated 2026-07-19 · How we collect & verify prices Compare clinics ↓

In plain words · Cataract Surgery is a medical procedure — the prices below are what hospitals publish for it.

Lens replacement surgery, phacoemulsification

Procedure from
$436
lowest listed
Typical
$436
city midpoint
All-in
≈ $2,070
from United States
MPI Index
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Clinics
2
in İzmir

Top hospital in İzmir · Newsweek #15 in Turkey

#15 Ege University Medical Faculty Hospital BBB 3.2★

Ege University Medical Faculty Hospital is a hospital in İzmir, Turkey · operating since 1955. Clinical departments include Acil Tıp Anabilim Dalı, Adli Tıp Anabilim Dalı, Anatomi Anabilim Dalı, Anesteziyoloji ve Reanimasyon Anabilim Dalı. Profile compiled from the hospital's own published pages (see sources).

Procedure in İzmir from $436 — full price data below.

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Procedure price in İzmir, local currency

Verified

The published market range in local currency, with today's conversions.

TRY 20,550–TRY 20,550

≈ $436–$436 · €381–€381 · £324–£324 · A$625–A$625 — converted at the ECB via frankfurter.dev rate of 2026-07-17

Vs home markets

  • United States Not yet sourced
  • United Kingdom Not yet sourced
  • Australia Not yet sourced
  • Germany Not yet sourced

Currency exposure — bills are in TRY: a 5% move against your currency shifts the mid-range by ≈ $22 either way. Converted at the ECB via frankfurter.dev rate of 2026-07-17.

Official tariff as of 2026

Verified against published clinic prices.

Hospitals & clinics in İzmir

Best first

The best hospitals first — Newsweek World's Best national top 10 lead, then our connected-chain grade. Re-rank by cheapest, rating or reviews.

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All-in trip cost

Modeled preview

Procedure plus flights, hotel, transport and medication from United States — the number that actually decides it.

Procedure (from)
$436
Flights (round-trip) est.
$1,110
Hotel · 5 nights est.
$350
Local transport est.
$110
Medication est.
$60
All-in ≈
$2,070

Flights are estimated round-trip economy from United States (change in the header). Hotel, transport and medication are Medical Travel Cost estimates, not quotes. Procedure is the lowest price on this page.

Cataract Surgery in other cities

Imported

The same procedure across the registry — cheapest first. Cities we haven't priced yet show no number, never a guess.

City From vs İzmir MPI Specialists
New Delhi India $156 ★ -64% — 3
Ho Chi Minh City Vietnam $248 -43% — 7
Goyang South Korea $338 -23% — 1
Hanoi Vietnam $381 -12% — 4
Gumi South Korea $391 -10% — 1
Istanbul Turkey $436 0% — 23
Ankara Turkey $436 0% — 9
Antalya Turkey $436 0% — 3
Kuala Lumpur Malaysia — not yet priced · being collected — —

Cheapest starting price per city, converted to your currency. ★ = lowest in the registry; cheapest ≠ best — the MPI column grades each market as its data lands. "—" is never guessed.

What's in the price — and why it varies

Modeled preview

A typical cost anatomy over the published total, and the factors that move a real quote up or down.

Typical cost anatomy

≈ $436
  • Surgeon & operating room$173
  • Anesthesia$31
  • Hospital stay (5 nights)$96
  • Implants & materials$97
  • Post-op & follow-up$39

Usually included

  • ✓ Surgeon, anesthesia & OR fees
  • ✓ 5 nights' hospital stay
  • ✓ Standard implants & materials
  • ✓ Nursing, meals & standard follow-up

Budget on top

  • + Flights & airport transfer
  • + Hotel before/after admission
  • + Visa & travel insurance
  • + Take-home medications
  • + Physiotherapy / rehab
  • + Extended stay if complications arise

What moves the price

  • 1Laser platform / lens generation used
  • 2Case complexity and how advanced the condition is
  • 3Surgeon seniority and case volume
  • 4Hospital tier, theatre and room class
  • 5Materials, implants or drug generation used
  • 6Anesthesia type and time in theatre
Published package inclusions per hospitalwhat each hospital's package price covers vs à-la-carte — the line-by-line comparison that settles quotes Not yet sourced

The split is modeled from typical cost structures; the total is the published price. Itemized hospital quotes replace this as they're sourced.

What you're buying — the spec sheet

Modeled preview

The countable facts of the purchase itself — setting, anesthesia, theatre time, visits and materials. Hospital-published specs replace the typicals as they're collected.

Setting
Outpatient — no hospital admission (typical)
Anesthesia
Topical / local drops (typical)
Time in theatre
Not yet sourcedhospital-published — collected per hospital
Visits
One procedure + follow-up around day 1
Device / materials
Not yet sourcedwhat's implanted or used — collected per procedure

Typicals from the same model as the recovery timeline — your surgeon's plan for your case is the spec that counts. Every sourced spec raises this page's MPI coverage.

Recovery timeline

Verified

Plan ~6 days in Turkey before flying home; back to work ~day 7, full recovery ~day 42. Your surgeon confirms your case.

  1. Day −1

    Arrive · consultation, tests & final treatment plan

  2. Day 0

    Procedure · outpatient, back at your hotel the same day

  3. Day 1

    First follow-up check with your doctor

  4. Day 3

    Walking & light activity comfortably

  5. Day 5

    Typically cleared to fly home

  6. Day 7

    Back to desk work

  7. Day 28

    Exercise & strenuous activity again

  8. Day 42

    Full recovery · final result (typical)

Back home — who takes care of you after

  • Before flying home Final review around day 1, before you're cleared to fly
  • First weeks back home A wound / progress check in the first weeks — doable locally with your records
  • Take with you Full operative notes, imaging and implant/protocol details — ask before discharge
  • Remote follow-up offered Not yet sourced
  • Complication support window Not yet sourced

The two hospital-policy rows are collected per hospital — remote follow-up and complication support are decision data, so they're never assumed.

Outcomes & success benchmarks

Registry data available

The outcome metrics that will grade this procedure in the Medical Travel Cost Index — filled from clinical registries and hospital-published data, never guessed.

What outcomes to expect — national registry benchmarks

These figures come from large clinical registries (UK, US and other national/international programs) — they describe the whole registry's patient population, not any hospital or country shown on this page. No hospital here has published its own outcome rate; ask any clinic you shortlist for theirs.

  • Posterior capsule rupture rate NHS cataract operations, National Ophthalmology Database (NOD) Audit, England+Wales, 2018-19 reporting period, approx. 452,000 operations Posterior capsule rupture (PCR) is the standard perioperative cataract-surgery complication benchmark. Rate fell from 1.91% in 2010-11 to 1.14% in 2018-19 per the registry's own reported trend -- we report the latest (2018-19) headline figure, not an average across years. Source is RCOphth's own press release quoting the NOD Audit annual report's key findings; the underlying full PDF report was not separately located/retrieved, so this is a secondary-but-primary-source (the audit body's own summ 1.14% RCOphth · 2018-19 reporting period (RCOphth NOD Audit annual report; press release published Sept 2020) · Source →
0 of 6 outcome metrics sourced — each one raises this page's MPI coverage Show slots
  • Success rate vs published international benchmarks Not yet sourced
  • Complication rate vs WHO/OECD averages Not yet sourced
  • Revision / re-treatment rate vs registry average Not yet sourced
  • Patient-reported satisfaction vs same procedure across the registry Not yet sourced
  • Procedures per year in this market hospital-published volumes · national statistics Not yet sourced
  • Annual volume at the busiest hospital here volume–outcome proxy · hospital-published Not yet sourced

Empty slots are deliberate — a number appears here only with a source behind it, never guessed.

Turkey for medical travel — safety, recourse & visa

Sourced Full Turkey guide →

What matters if it goes wrong, and what it takes to get there — country-level, verifiable guidance in one place.

Visa
Turkey's e-Visa / visa-on-arrival system (evisa.gov.tr) is valid ONLY for tourism or commerce; work, study and other purposes require a visa issued by a Turkish embassy or consulate. Confirm your nationality's current rule before travelling.
Medical / long-stay visa
There is no separate medical/health-tourism visa — international patients enter on the standard e-Visa or visa-free tourist route like any other visitor. The health-tourism-specific control sits on the FACILITY side instead: treating providers must hold the Ministry of Health's 'Uluslararası Sağlık Turizmi Yetki Belgesi' authorization.
Traveller safety
Generally safe
Legal recourse
Limited recourse — use a medical-travel insurer
Insurance
Medical-travel & complication cover widely available
International patients
Hospitals accustomed to international patients

General guidance from public sources — confirm current rules for your nationality. Verified against: Turkish Ministry of Foreign Affairs — Visa information for foreigners.

Risks & the questions to ask

Modeled preview

A planning frame — the risks are confirmed for your case by the specialist. The checklist is what an expert would ask before booking anywhere.

Common & temporary

Swelling, bruising, short-term pain

Serious & rare

Bleeding, infection, anesthesia reactions, revision surgery

How to de-risk

Ask the complication and revision rate for THIS procedure at THIS hospital, and what aftercare is included if something goes wrong

Eligibility — is this even for you?

Typical candidacy criteriaclinical guidelines · sourced per procedure Not yet sourced
Common contraindicationswhat typically rules it out — sourced per procedure Not yet sourced

Ask the specialist before you book

  1. 1How many of this exact procedure did you perform last year?
  2. 2What is your complication and revision rate for it?
  3. 3What anesthesia will be used, and who administers it?
  4. 4Who manages my aftercare once I fly home, and how?
  5. 5What exactly is included in the quoted price — and what isn't?

Framework guidance modeled by procedure type — per-procedure clinical risk data replaces it as it's sourced.

Alternatives to cataract surgery

Directory

What's typically considered instead, and when — suitability is a specialist's call, not a price comparison.

  • Glasses / contact lenses Typically chosen when surgery isn't wanted or suitable.
  • Alternative laser technique → Typically chosen thin corneas or dry eyes may suit PRK/LASEK better.

Linked alternatives are priced in this city; the rest join as their pages go live.

Conditions & specialists for this

Directory

How this procedure connects to the conditions it treats and the specialists who perform it in İzmir.

Conditions this treats 1

Specialists for this 1

Dots carry the lens colors — red opens a condition page, teal a specialist page, both priced for İzmir.

Medical Travel Cost Procedure Index

MPI · Method 1.3 Methodology →

One comparable grade per procedure page — each metric measured against the price registry and weighted by the same public formula. Unsourced metrics are excluded, never guessed.

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80% of the formula backed by data

  • Price competitiveness 63 Imported cheaper than 63% of cities · vs 30 cities pricing this procedure · 63th percentile
  • Savings vs home — Not sourced — · needs a home-market price to compare
  • Price evidence 18 Imported 1 data point · sourced/verified price rows behind the range
  • Provider choice 24 Imported 2 clinics · providers offering it in this city
  • Provider trust 62 Our index 62/100 top · best provider's Trust Index

Same method as every hospital and procedure page in the registry. Machine-readable version below for models & crawlers.

Common questions

Sourced + modeled

Short answers built from the numbers on this page — costs, stay length, safety and verification.

How much does cataract surgery cost in İzmir?

The published range in İzmir is TRY 20,550–TRY 20,550 (typically around $436). Clinic quotes vary by case.

How long do I need to stay in İzmir?

Plan roughly 6 days in Turkey for the typical case — arrival and consultation, the procedure, and follow-up before you're cleared to fly. Back to desk work around day 7 (modeled typical; your doctor confirms).

Is it safe to have cataract surgery in Turkey?

Generally safe for visitors, and limited recourse — use a medical-travel insurer. Hospital-level safety signals (accreditation, Trust Index) are listed per hospital below — availability and outcomes always depend on the individual provider.

Which hospitals in İzmir offer cataract surgery?

2 eye care (ophthalmology) and multi-specialty providers are listed for İzmir, with a top Trust Index of 62/100. We list them as a directory — per-hospital availability is confirmed on each hospital's own page.

Are these prices verified?

Yes — the İzmir price range is verified against a published clinic source (MoH Kamu Sağlık Hizmetleri Fiyat Tarifesi EK-2 (official minimum tariff, intl health-tourism patients)). Per-clinic prices are added and verified next.

Data & sources

33% verified Methodology →

How much of this page is verified data — every section carries a chip telling you where its numbers come from.

58%
data confidence · Partial
Verified facts33%
Page filled89%
All 9 data fields — what's verified, imported or modeled Show more
  • City price range· MoH Kamu Sağlık Hizmetleri Fiyat Tarifesi EK-2 (official minimum tariff, intl health-tourism patients) ✓ Verified
  • Per-clinic prices Not yet collected
  • City comparison· 8 priced Imported
  • Provider directory· 2 clinics Imported
  • Outcome benchmarks· 1 registry metrics — population-level, not this hospital's Imported
  • Spec sheet & aftercare· 3 of 5 specs typed Modeled
  • Recovery timeline· NHS (cataract surgery), 2026 — feel normal after a few days, avoid heavy lifting/swimming, eye drops ~4 weeks ✓ Verified
  • Trip cost estimates Modeled
  • Visa & travel guidance ✓ Verified

Every field is tagged by source state. "Verified" = sourced and checked; "Imported" = real data pending re-verification; "Modeled" = deterministic placeholder for this preview; "Not yet collected" = on our roadmap. Confidence feeds the Medical Travel Cost Index. Methodology →