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Orthopedics abroad
Everything on orthopedics in one place — what each procedure costs and the cheapest destination for it, which cities grade best, and the hospitals that lead the field. Verified prices start at $7 (Manual Therapy, Daegu).
- Procedures priced
- 20/20
- Hospitals
- 262
- Cities priced
- 58
- Verified prices
- 17
Top hospital for orthopedics · Newsweek #1 in South Korea
#1 Samsung Medical Center 3.9★ JCI accredited
Opened in 1994 by the Samsung Foundation, Samsung Medical Center in Gangnam is a 1,979-bed non-profit hospital ranked #30 in the world by Newsweek (2025). JCI-accredited and cancer-focused, it runs one of Korea's two proton-therapy centres and has operated a dedicated international centre since 1995.
Seoul, South Korea · 262 hospitals run a orthopedics department across 58 cities.
Where orthopedics is offered
9 countriesCoverage = whole-treatment procedures we hold a price for, most-covered country first. “Not offered” = confirmed unavailable in our sourced cities — never a legal claim.
What orthopedics costs
MFI · Pink indexEach procedure with its cheapest destination on file, normalised to one currency so countries compare fairly. ✓ = a verified price exists somewhere; we never add these into a single “field price.”
- Manual Therapy ✓ from $7 / package Daegu
- Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) ✓ from $20 / package Busan
- PRP Joint Injection ✓ from $101 / package Seoul
- Pain Management from $171 / per-procedure Kuala Lumpur
- Peripheral Nerve Surgery from $194 / per-procedure Seoul
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- Foot & Ankle Surgery ✓ from $520 / package New Delhi
- Fracture & Trauma ✓ from $520 / package New Delhi
- Pediatric Orthopaedics from $520 / package New Delhi
- Knee Surgery ✓ from $623 / package New Delhi
- Arthroscopy ✓ from $623 / package New Delhi
- Shoulder Surgery ✓ from $985 / per-procedure Seoul
- Minimally Invasive Spine ✓ from $1,340 / total-bill Seoul
- Hand & Wrist Surgery ✓ from $1,470 / total-bill Kuala Lumpur
- Neurosurgery – Spine ✓ from $1,560 / package New Delhi
- Sports Medicine ✓ from $1,680 / per-procedure Seoul
- Joint Replacement ✓ from $2,080 / package New Delhi
- Hip Surgery ✓ from $2,080 / package New Delhi
- Neurosurgery – Brain ✓ from $2,080 / package New Delhi
- Spine Surgery ✓ from $2,670 / total-bill, 1-2 level lumbar fusion (mo cot song bat vit / co dinh cot song 1 tang) Ho Chi Minh City
- Orthopaedic Oncology from $4,160 / package New Delhi
4 more (drug protocols, supportive care) are priced per cycle or regimen — we show ranges where honest, never a fake single price.
Best destinations for orthopedics
4 measurableEvery city graded on this one field — price coverage, verification and provider quality — using the same MFI formula as the scorecards. Open a city for its full field scorecard.
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Best hospitals for orthopedics
Newsweek World's Best national rank first, then our sourced grade. Across all destinations.
- #1 Samsung Medical Center Seoul, South Korea 3.9★
- #1 Medanta - The Medicity Gurugram, India 4.2★
- #1 Bumrungrad International Hospital Bangkok, Thailand 3.8★
- #1 Sunway Medical Centre Subang Jaya, Malaysia 4.7★
- #1 Singapore General Hospital Singapore, Singapore 3.4★
- #1 Tam Anh General Hospital Hanoi Hanoi, Vietnam 3.2★
- #1 Cleveland Clinic Abu Dhabi Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates 4.4★
- #1 Koç University Hospital Istanbul, Turkey 3.5★
What orthopedics care covers · 20 procedures we price
The procedures we hold prices for under orthopedics — each opens its own cross-country price comparison. We show what's priced and where; we make no claim about legal eligibility, which varies by country and by your circumstances — confirm with the hospital.
- Arthroscopy
- Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT)
- Foot & Ankle Surgery
- Fracture & Trauma
- Hand & Wrist Surgery
- Hip Surgery
- Joint Replacement
- Knee Surgery
- Manual Therapy
- Minimally Invasive Spine
- Neurosurgery – Brain
- Neurosurgery – Spine
- Orthopaedic Oncology
- PRP Joint Injection
- Pain Management
- Pediatric Orthopaedics
- Peripheral Nerve Surgery
- Shoulder Surgery
- Spine Surgery
- Sports Medicine
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