The local lens · India
Medical prices in Kolkata, India
Median entry price
≈ $11
from ≈ $11
Cost rank
#7 of 18
cheapest in India
Avg hospital rating
4.4★
Google · across 3 hospitals
Avg reviews / hospital
6,362
Google · across 3 hospitals
Hospitals in the city
3 · 3 sourced
Procedures priced
1
A treatment day in Kolkata · the local basket
what a day here burns, besides the procedure
- Specialist consult
- —median · 0 priced
- Hotel night
- ≈ $40mid-range · est.
- Local transport
- ≈ $12per day · est.
Consult median is real registry data; hotel and transport are the same modeled estimates the all-in calculators use — labeled, never quotes.
How we collect & verify prices Country guide: India →
In plain words · Kolkata is a priced care market in India — 1 procedures, 0 consultation fees and 3 hospitals you can reach without changing city. The country-level guide (visa, safety, system) lives on the India page.
The #36 hospital in India · Newsweek World's Best
#36 Manipal Hospital Salt Lake 4.5★
Manipal Hospital Salt Lake is a private multi-specialty hospital in Salt Lake, Kolkata, part of the pan-India Manipal Hospitals chain. Unlike several sibling branches, its health-checkup location code (MSK) on the chain's branch-scoped booking portal (Life's On Manipal) redirects to the chain's separate city-level aggregator (mahi.manipalhospitals.com), which prices Kolkata as a whole city ("Final pricing varies by package and hospital") rather than this specific branch, so no branch-attributable price could be sourced this pass.
- Procedures priced
- 1
- in this city
- Median entry
- ≈ $11
- across procedures
- Healthcare grade
- A
- sourced · national
- MLI local market
- 62/100
- our data · not a grade
- Hospitals
- 3
- 3 sourced
Top hospitals in Kolkata, India
Our indexNewsweek's national top 10 first, then our grade — 3 hospitals inside one city is negotiating power: comparable quotes without changing your hotel. Every row opens the hospital's full profile and prices. 3 fully sourced.
- 61 Grade
- 64 Grade
- Institute of Post Graduate Medical Education and Research #62 Sourced profile
multi-specialty 4.2 Google
61 Grade
Where Kolkata ranks on cost in India
Price axis · lower is cheaperHow cheap Kolkata is against the other cities we price in India — our price data. Whether the care is good is a separate country-level rating, on the India page.
How cheap · our prices · lower is cheaper · among India cities
index 100 = median across the 18 India cities we price · lower = cheaper. Kolkata's median entry ≈ $11 from 1 priced procedures — early data, and each city prices a different basket, so read it as a guide, not a verdict.
The other axis — is the care good? — is a country rating from external world indices, shown on the India page.
What treatment costs in Kolkata
ImportedThe cheapest published entries in this city — each links to its full city-level comparison with hospitals and sources.
| Procedure | From (local) | ≈ USD | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Comprehensive Health Screening Multi-specialty | ₹1,080 | $11 | up to ₹7,000 |
Cheapest ≠ best — every row opens the full market for that procedure in Kolkata. The complete menu lives on each procedure's page.
Getting around Kolkata
SourcedThe micro logistics: how you reach the hospital district and what staying near it costs. Sourced transit anchors per hospital; hotel and transport stay labeled estimates.
Transit & airport access — Ruby General Hospital (sourced)
- Central 0.5 km · ~6 min (≈, OSM)
- Sealdah 0.9 km · ~11 min (≈, OSM)
- Hotels in the hospital districtcounted + priced as hospital profiles land Not yet sourced
- Hotel night (mid-range, near clinics)modeled estimate — the all-in calculators use the same number ≈ $40 est.
- Airport transfermodeled estimate ≈ $50 est.
Verifying a doctor while here: National Medical Commission (NMC) — the statutory regulator that replaced the Medical Council of India in 2020 · nmc.org.in — the Indian Medical Register (IMR), a public online search of registered medical practitioners; hospital quality is separately accredited by NABH (nabh.co) — details on the India page.
Medical Travel Cost Local Index — local-market score
MLI · Method 1.3 Methodology →Our 0–100 score for the city as a MARKET — price level, breadth, competition, consult access, trust and logistics — from our own data. It is NOT a healthcare-quality grade: that is India's sourced A grade (external world indices), shown in the badge and on the country page. Unsourced metrics are excluded, never guessed.
local-market score
85% of the formula backed by data
Care quality: A · sourced, national
- Price level 94 Imported cheaper than 94% of cities · median entry vs 108 priced cities · 94th percentile
- Market breadth 0 Imported 1 procedures priced · share of the 303-procedure priced registry
- Provider competition 78 ✓ Verified 3 hospitals in the city · 3 sourced · hospitals reachable without changing city
- Consult access — Not sourced — · city-level consultation fees feed this
- Provider trust 66 Our index 66/100 top · best provider's Trust Index in the city
- Local logistics 74 ✓ Verified 2 sourced transit points at the top hospital · sourced transit/airport access at sourced hospitals
Same method as every page in the registry. Machine-readable version below for models & crawlers.
Explore Kolkata by condition or specialist
DirectoryStart from your diagnosis or the doctor type you need — both priced for this city.
By condition 5
Dots carry the lens colors — red opens a condition's care market, teal a specialist's price page.
Common questions
Sourced + modeledShort answers built from the numbers on this page — costs, fees, hospitals and daily budget.
What does treatment cost in Kolkata?
1 procedures are priced in Kolkata, starting from ≈ $11 with a median entry of ≈ $11. A specialist consultation runs ≈ — at the median, across 0 priced specialties.
How much do I need per day in Kolkata besides treatment?
Modeled estimates: a mid-range hotel near the hospitals ≈ $40/night, local transport ≈ $12/day plus ≈ $50 for airport transfers — estimates, not quotes; the all-in calculators on each procedure page use the same model.
Can I negotiate prices in Kolkata?
Compare itemized quotes line by line — published ranges show how much room each market has.
Which hospitals are in Kolkata, India?
3 hospitals and clinics are listed for Kolkata, ranked by our transparent Trust Index (top score 66/100); 3 have fully sourced profiles. Every profile carries accreditations, reviews and published prices. Kolkata is one of several cities in India — see the India page for the full market.
Data & sources
38% verified Methodology →How much of this page is verified data — every section carries a chip telling you where its numbers come from.
All 8 data fields — what's verified, imported or modeled Show more Hide
- Procedure prices· 1 procedures Imported
- Consultation fees· 0 on file Not yet collected
- Hospital directory· 3 in the city ✓ Verified
- Transit & access· 2 points at Ruby General Hospital ✓ Verified
- Hotel & transport estimates Modeled
- Price dispersion Not yet collected
- Doctor license registry· National Medical Commission (NMC) — the statutory regulator that replaced the Medical Council of India in 2020 ✓ Verified
- Cost rank within India· 17 other India cities priced Imported
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.