The local lens · South Korea
Medical prices in Busan, South Korea
Median entry price
≈ $67
from ≈ $19
Cost rank
#1 of 37
cheapest in South Korea
Avg hospital rating
3.5★
Google · across 14 hospitals
Avg reviews / hospital
105
Google · across 14 hospitals
Hospitals in the city
14 · 14 sourced
Procedures priced
8
A treatment day in Busan · the local basket
what a day here burns, besides the procedure
- Specialist consult
- —median · 0 priced
- Hotel night
- ≈ $90mid-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: South Korea →
In plain words · Busan is a priced care market in South Korea — 8 procedures, 0 consultation fees and 14 hospitals you can reach without changing city. The country-level guide (visa, safety, system) lives on the South Korea page.
The #33 hospital in South Korea · Newsweek World's Best
#33 Pusan National University Hospital 3.8★ KOIHA 급성기병원 인증 (Acute Care Hospital Accreditation)
Pusan National University Hospital (부산대학교병원) is the main campus — in Seo-gu, Busan, tracing its origin to the Pusan National University College of Medicine Affiliated Hospital opened in 1956 (renamed to its current name in 1988, converted to an independent public corporation in 1994) — of the Pusan National University Hospital network, distinct from its satellite Yangsan campus (양산부산대학교병원, Yangsan city, a separate hospital). A public tertiary/advanced-general hospital (상급종합병원) with roughly 1,040 licensed beds, it runs a regional (Level-I) trauma center, a regional emergency medical center, a regional cancer center, organ- and stem-cell-transplant programs, robotic surgery, and an international healthcare center, and holds current KOIHA acute-care hospital accreditation (2023-2027).
- Procedures priced
- 8
- in this city
- Median entry
- ≈ $67
- across procedures
- Healthcare grade
- AAA
- sourced · national
- MLI local market
- 61/100
- our data · not a grade
- Hospitals
- 14
- 14 sourced
- Price spread
- 410%
- median range width
Top hospitals in Busan, South Korea
Our indexNewsweek's national top 10 first, then our grade — 14 hospitals inside one city is negotiating power: comparable quotes without changing your hotel. Every row opens the hospital's full profile and prices. 14 fully sourced.
Median price spread 410% between published low and high across 7 priced procedures — wide ranges mean quotes are case-dependent and worth comparing.
- Pusan National University Hospital #33 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 급성기병원 인증 (Acute Care Hospital Accreditation) 3.8 Google 1,040 beds
72 Grade - Inje University Haeundae Paik Hospital #34 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 급성기병원인증 (Acute-Care Hospital Accreditation) 3.7 Google 890 beds
71 Grade - Dong-A University Hospital #44 Sourced profile
multi-specialty 상급종합병원 (Advanced General / Tertiary Hospital) 3.5 Google 993 beds
73 Grade - Inje University Busan Paik Hospital #49 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 급성기병원 인증 (Acute Care Hospital Accreditation) 3.4 Google 836 beds
70 Grade - Kosin University Gospel Hospital #65 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 급성기병원 인증 (Acute-Care Hospital Accreditation) 3.6 Google 883 beds
73 Grade - Bumin Hospital Haeundae #84 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 의료기관인증 (Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation) 3.6 Google 383 beds
70 Grade - Busan St. Mary's Hospital #88 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 급성기병원 인증 (Acute-Care General Hospital Accreditation) 4.0 Google 415 beds
70 Grade - Busan Medical Center #96 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 의료기관인증 (Korea Institute for Healthcare Accreditation, 급성기병원 인증) 4.1 Google 543 beds
73 Grade - Dong-Eui Medical Center #104 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA (의료기관인증, Acute-Care Hospital Accreditation) 4.1 Google 448 beds
71 Grade - VHS Busan Hospital #113 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 의료기관인증 (급성기/acute-care track) 3.5 Google 476 beds
69 Grade
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- Busan Bumin Hospital #115 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 의료기관인증 — 급성기 (Acute Care Hospital Accreditation) 3.3 Google 374 beds
71 Grade - Good Samsun Hospital #122 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 급성기병원 인증 (Acute-Care Hospital Accreditation) 3.1 Google 407 beds
67 Grade - Good Moonhwa Hospital #128 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 급성기병원 인증 (Acute Care Hospital Accreditation) 3.0 Google 295 beds
67 Grade - Good Gang-An Hospital #129 Sourced profile
multi-specialty KOIHA 의료기관인증 (급성기/acute-care accreditation) 2.9 Google 540 beds
68 Grade
Where Busan ranks on cost in South Korea
Price axis · lower is cheaperHow cheap Busan is against the other cities we price in South Korea — our price data. Whether the care is good is a separate country-level rating, on the South Korea page.
How cheap · our prices · lower is cheaper · among South Korea cities
index 100 = median across the 37 South Korea cities we price · lower = cheaper. Busan's median entry ≈ $67 from 8 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 South Korea page.
What treatment costs in Busan
VerifiedThe cheapest published entries in this city — each links to its full city-level comparison with hospitals and sources.
| Procedure | From (local) | ≈ USD | Range |
|---|---|---|---|
| Manual Therapy Orthopedics | ₩29,000 | $19 | up to ₩200,000 |
| Extracorporeal Shockwave Therapy (ESWT) Orthopedics | ₩30,000 | $20 | up to ₩300,000 |
| Teeth Cleaning Dental | ₩60,000 | $40 | — |
| Comprehensive Health Screening Multi-specialty | ₩76,000 | $51 | up to ₩750,000 |
| Computed Tomography (CT) Scan Cancer Treatment (Oncology) | ₩100,000 | $67 | up to ₩180,000 |
| Dental Crowns Dental | ₩300,000 | $201 | up to ₩1,528,500 |
| Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) Cancer Treatment (Oncology) | ₩490,000 | $328 | up to ₩980,000 |
| Dental Implants Dental | ₩1,200,000 | $804 | up to ₩3,200,000 |
Cheapest ≠ best — every row opens the full market for that procedure in Busan. The complete menu lives on each procedure's page.
Getting around Busan
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 — Pusan National University Hospital (sourced)
- Toseong 0.1 km · ~2 min (≈, OSM)
- Jagalchi 0.8 km · ~10 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 ≈ $90 est.
- Airport transfermodeled estimate ≈ $50 est.
Verifying a doctor while here: Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) / Ministry of Health and Welfare — physicians are licensed by MOHW and registered with the Korean Medical Association (KMA) · medicalkorea.or.kr/en/registeredsystem — KHIDI's public register of medical institutions certified to treat foreign patients (confirm your clinic holds a valid registration certificate); no public English per-physician license search — ask the clinic for the surgeon's Korean name, license number and specialty-board registration number, verifiable via KMA/MOHW — details on the South Korea 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 South Korea's sourced AAA 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: AAA · sourced, national
- Price level 81 Imported cheaper than 81% of cities · median entry vs 108 priced cities · 81th percentile
- Market breadth 3 Imported 8 procedures priced · share of the 303-procedure priced registry
- Provider competition 89 ✓ Verified 14 hospitals in the city · 14 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 Busan 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 Busan?
8 procedures are priced in Busan, starting from ≈ $19 with a median entry of ≈ $67. A specialist consultation runs ≈ — at the median, across 0 priced specialties.
How much do I need per day in Busan besides treatment?
Modeled estimates: a mid-range hotel near the hospitals ≈ $90/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 Busan?
Published ranges here spread a median of 410% 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 Busan, South Korea?
14 hospitals and clinics are listed for Busan, ranked by our transparent Trust Index (top score 66/100); 14 have fully sourced profiles. Every profile carries accreditations, reviews and published prices. Busan is one of several cities in South Korea — see the South Korea 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· 8 procedures ✓ Verified
- Consultation fees· 0 on file Not yet collected
- Hospital directory· 14 in the city ✓ Verified
- Transit & access· 2 points at Pusan National University Hospital ✓ Verified
- Hotel & transport estimates Modeled
- Price dispersion· median 410% Imported
- Doctor license registry· Korea Health Industry Development Institute (KHIDI) / Ministry of Health and Welfare — physicians are licensed by MOHW and registered with the Korean Medical Association (KMA) ✓ Verified
- Cost rank within South Korea· 36 other South Korea 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.