The local lens · Malaysia
Medical prices in Shah Alam, Malaysia
Median entry price
≈ $974
from ≈ $46
Cost rank
#12 of 16
cheapest in Malaysia
Avg hospital rating
4.7★
Google · across 3 hospitals
Avg reviews / hospital
3,633
Google · across 3 hospitals
Hospitals in the city
3 · 3 sourced
Procedures priced
16
A treatment day in Shah Alam · the local basket
what a day here burns, besides the procedure
- Specialist consult
- —median · 0 priced
- Hotel night
- ≈ $55mid-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: Malaysia →
In plain words · Shah Alam is a priced care market in Malaysia — 16 procedures, 0 consultation fees and 3 hospitals you can reach without changing city. The country-level guide (visa, safety, system) lives on the Malaysia page.
The #11 hospital in Malaysia · Newsweek World's Best
#11 Ara Damansara Medical Centre 4.6★
Ara Damansara Medical Centre (ADMC) is a 220-bed private tertiary hospital in Shah Alam, Selangor, at the Petaling Jaya boundary near Subang Airport, open since January 2012 with strengths in cardiology, orthopaedics/spine, neurosurgery, oncology and ophthalmology. Formerly part of Ramsay Sime Darby Health Care, it now operates under CAH Medical Centres Sdn Bhd within the Columbia Asia Healthcare / Asia OneHealthcare group (Hong Leong Group and TPG-backed One Health Holdings).
- Procedures priced
- 16
- in this city
- Median entry
- ≈ $974
- across procedures
- Healthcare grade
- A
- sourced · national
- MLI local market
- 39/100
- our data · not a grade
- Hospitals
- 3
- 3 sourced
- Price spread
- 46%
- median range width
Top hospitals in Shah Alam, Malaysia
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.
Median price spread 46% between published low and high across 9 priced procedures — wide ranges mean quotes are case-dependent and worth comparing.
- 60 Grade
- 66 Grade
- 66 Grade
Where Shah Alam ranks on cost in Malaysia
Price axis · lower is cheaperHow cheap Shah Alam is against the other cities we price in Malaysia — our price data. Whether the care is good is a separate country-level rating, on the Malaysia page.
How cheap · our prices · lower is cheaper · among Malaysia cities
index 100 = median across the 16 Malaysia cities we price · lower = cheaper. Shah Alam's median entry ≈ $974 from 16 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 Malaysia page.
What treatment costs in Shah Alam
ImportedThe cheapest published entries in this city — each links to its full city-level comparison with hospitals and sources.
| Procedure | From (local) | ≈ USD | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Cancer Screening and Diagnostic Cancer Treatment (Oncology) | MYR 190 | $46 | up to MYR 998 |
| Blood Tests Cancer Treatment (Oncology) | MYR 220 | $54 | up to MYR 590 |
| Stress Test (Treadmill Test) Cardiology & Heart Surgery | MYR 588 | $144 | — |
| Gastroscopy (Upper GI Endoscopy) Multi-specialty | MYR 1,400 | $342 | up to MYR 2,000 |
| Cardiac Rehabilitation Cardiology & Heart Surgery | MYR 1,500 | $366 | — |
| Colonoscopy Multi-specialty | MYR 2,088 | $510 | up to MYR 2,500 |
| Cataract Surgery Eye Care (Ophthalmology) | MYR 3,800 | $928 | up to MYR 15,000 |
| Normal Delivery (Vaginal Birth) Fertility & IVF | MYR 3,888 | $949 | — |
Cheapest ≠ best — every row opens the full market for that procedure in Shah Alam. The complete menu lives on each procedure's page.
Getting around Shah Alam
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 — Ara Damansara Medical Centre (sourced)
- Sultan Abdul Aziz Shah Airport 2.4 km · ~6 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 ≈ $55 est.
- Airport transfermodeled estimate ≈ $50 est.
Verifying a doctor while here: Malaysian Medical Council (MMC), under the Ministry of Health · mmc.gov.my — public register of fully- and provisionally-registered medical practitioners; hospital quality is separately accredited by MSQH (msqh.com.my) and JCI — details on the Malaysia 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 Malaysia'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 17 Imported cheaper than 17% of cities · median entry vs 108 priced cities · 17th percentile
- Market breadth 5 Imported 16 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 67 ✓ Verified 1 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 Shah Alam 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 Shah Alam?
16 procedures are priced in Shah Alam, starting from ≈ $46 with a median entry of ≈ $974. A specialist consultation runs ≈ — at the median, across 0 priced specialties.
How much do I need per day in Shah Alam besides treatment?
Modeled estimates: a mid-range hotel near the hospitals ≈ $55/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 Shah Alam?
Published ranges here spread a median of 46% between low and high — wide ranges mean quotes are case-dependent and comparable offers are worth collecting. Always compare itemized quotes line by line.
Which hospitals are in Shah Alam, Malaysia?
3 hospitals and clinics are listed for Shah Alam, ranked by our transparent Trust Index (top score 66/100); 3 have fully sourced profiles. Every profile carries accreditations, reviews and published prices. Shah Alam is one of several cities in Malaysia — see the Malaysia page for the full market.
Data & sources
50% 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· 16 procedures ✓ Verified
- Consultation fees· 0 on file Not yet collected
- Hospital directory· 3 in the city ✓ Verified
- Transit & access· 1 points at Ara Damansara Medical Centre ✓ Verified
- Hotel & transport estimates Modeled
- Price dispersion· median 46% Imported
- Doctor license registry· Malaysian Medical Council (MMC), under the Ministry of Health ✓ Verified
- Cost rank within Malaysia· 15 other Malaysia 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.