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Medical prices in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Median entry price

≈ $501

from ≈ $6

Cost rank

#6 of 14

cheapest in Taiwan

Avg hospital rating

3.4★

Google · across 3 hospitals

Avg reviews / hospital

1,834

Google · across 3 hospitals

Hospitals in the city

3 · 3 sourced

Procedures priced

57

AAA

Healthcare grade

sourced · Taiwan

Local market 49/100 · how

A treatment day in Kaohsiung · the local basket

what a day here burns, besides the procedure

Specialist consult
≈ $8median · 8 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: Taiwan →

In plain words · Kaohsiung is a priced care market in Taiwan — 57 procedures, 8 consultation fees and 3 hospitals you can reach without changing city. The country-level guide (visa, safety, system) lives on the Taiwan page.

The #5 hospital in Taiwan · Newsweek World's Best

#5 Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital A 3.2★

Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital is a medical-center-tier hospital in Kaohsiung, Taiwan, founded in 1986. It is a private not-for-profit institution. It has 2686 beds and 81 clinical departments. Notable programs include liver transplant center and proton therapy center.

See profile & prices →
Procedures priced
57
in this city
Median entry
≈ $501
across procedures
Consult median
≈ $8
8 specialties
Healthcare grade
AAA
sourced · national
MLI local market
49/100
our data · not a grade
Hospitals
3
3 sourced
Price spread
225%
median range width

Top hospitals in Kaohsiung, Taiwan

Our index

Newsweek'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 225% between published low and high across 23 priced procedures — wide ranges mean quotes are case-dependent and worth comparing.

Where Kaohsiung ranks on cost in Taiwan

Price axis · lower is cheaper

How cheap Kaohsiung is against the other cities we price in Taiwan — our price data. Whether the care is good is a separate country-level rating, on the Taiwan page.

How cheap · our prices · lower is cheaper · among Taiwan cities

#6 of 14 cities we price in Taiwan — the #6 cheapest in Taiwan by median listed price index 81
cheapest in Taiwanmost expensive

index 100 = median across the 14 Taiwan cities we price · lower = cheaper. Kaohsiung's median entry ≈ $501 from 57 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 Taiwan page.

What treatment costs in Kaohsiung

Imported

The cheapest published entries in this city — each links to its full city-level comparison with hospitals and sources.

Procedure From (local) ≈ USD Range
Gum Surgery Dental NT$200 $6
Dental Fillings Dental NT$600 $19
Specialist Consultation Multi-specialty NT$650 $20 up to NT$1,000
Tooth Extraction Dental NT$670 $21
Dermal Fillers Anti-Aging & Wellness NT$1,100 $34
Colonoscopy Multi-specialty NT$2,250 $70
TMJ Treatment Dental NT$2,750 $85
Appendectomy Multi-specialty NT$3,960 $122 up to NT$8,937

Cheapest ≠ best — every row opens the full market for that procedure in Kaohsiung. The complete menu lives on each procedure's page.

The consultation-fee market in Kaohsiung

Imported

8 specialist consultation fees on file — the entry ticket to every pathway. Median ≈ $8; each links to that specialty's full price page.

City-level imported fees, re-verified over time — the fee spread itself is a market signal: seniority, equipment and demand price the visit.

What it costs to stay in Kaohsiung

Sourced · Numbeo / IQAir

Recovery means weeks in the city, not a day — so beyond the procedure, here's what living here costs and feels like. Public city data; each figure opens its source. Hotel star-rates and dining variety aren't sourced yet, so they're left out rather than estimated.

Rent and meals convert live at today's FX; safety and air quality are index/measurement values with their own scale. A treatment day's consult, hotel and transport sit in the hero basket above.

Getting around Kaohsiung

Sourced

The 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 — Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital (sourced)

  • 鳳山 1.9 km · ~5 min (≈, OSM)
  • 正義 2.1 km · ~5 min (≈, OSM)
  • 高雄國際機場 8.2 km · ~12 min (≈, OSM)

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 Taiwan's sourced AAA grade (external world indices), shown in the badge and on the country page. Unsourced metrics are excluded, never guessed.

49/100

local-market score

100% of the formula backed by data

Care quality: AAA · sourced, national

  • Price level 37 Imported cheaper than 37% of cities · median entry vs 108 priced cities · 37th percentile
  • Market breadth 19 Imported 57 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 43 Imported 8 fees on file · median ≈ $8 · specialist consultation fees priced in this city
  • Provider trust 66 Our index 66/100 top · best provider's Trust Index in the city
  • Local logistics 81 ✓ Verified 3 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 Kaohsiung by condition or specialist

Directory

Start from your diagnosis or the doctor type you need — both priced for this city.

Dots carry the lens colors — red opens a condition's care market, teal a specialist's price page.

Common questions

Sourced + modeled

Short answers built from the numbers on this page — costs, fees, hospitals and daily budget.

What does treatment cost in Kaohsiung?

57 procedures are priced in Kaohsiung, starting from ≈ $6 with a median entry of ≈ $501. A specialist consultation runs ≈ $8 at the median, across 8 priced specialties.

How much do I need per day in Kaohsiung 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 Kaohsiung?

Published ranges here spread a median of 225% 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 Kaohsiung, Taiwan?

3 hospitals and clinics are listed for Kaohsiung, ranked by our transparent Trust Index (top score 66/100); 3 have fully sourced profiles. Every profile carries accreditations, reviews and published prices. Kaohsiung is one of several cities in Taiwan — see the Taiwan 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.

63%
data confidence · High
Verified facts38%
Page filled88%
All 8 data fields — what's verified, imported or modeled Show more
  • Procedure prices· 57 procedures ✓ Verified
  • Consultation fees· 8 on file Imported
  • Hospital directory· 3 in the city ✓ Verified
  • Transit & access· 3 points at Kaohsiung Chang Gung Memorial Hospital ✓ Verified
  • Hotel & transport estimates Modeled
  • Price dispersion· median 225% Imported
  • Doctor license registry Not yet collected
  • Cost rank within Taiwan· 13 other Taiwan 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.