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Unreviewed Written 23 October 2026| 3 sources| Current visa requirement sheet opened and read; no patient statistics located Medical Tourism in Taiwan Verified against primary record Entry route Visitor visa for medical treatment purposes[1] Central requirement A diagnosis and treatment recommendation letter from a Taiwanese medical institution, naming the patient and tentative stay[1] Financial requirement … Read more

Unreviewed Written 23 October 2026| 3 sources| Dubai regulator’s own pages read; no emirate or federal patient count located Medical Tourism in the United Arab Emirates Verified against primary record Principal regulator described here Dubai Health Authority, Health Regulation Sector[1] Dedicated unit Health Tourism Department[1] Scope of regulation Health tourism services, the facilities offering them, … Read more

Unreviewed Written 23 October 2026| 4 sources| Visa terms read from the 2010 foreign ministry announcement itself Medical Tourism in Japan Verified against primary record Medical stay visa introduced 17 December 2010, initially as a one-year trial[1] Maximum stay Up to 6 months; over 90 days requires a Certificate of Eligibility[1] Maximum validity Up to … Read more

Unreviewed Written 23 October 2026| 4 sources| Three health ministry parliamentary replies opened and read in full Medical Tourism in Singapore Verified against primary record Foreign medical travellers (2006) About 410,000, estimated by tourism board survey[1] Foreign medical travellers (2007) About 348,000, a fall of 15 per cent[1] Spending by medical travellers (2007) 1.7 billion … Read more

Unreviewed Written 23 October 2026| 4 sources| Both governing statutes opened and read, including the solicitation carve-out Medical Tourism in South Korea Verified against primary record Governing statute Act No. 13599 of 22 December 2015, on overseas expansion of medical services and attraction of international patients[1] Statutory definition of international patient Foreign national who is … Read more

Unreviewed Written 23 October 2026| 4 sources| No Chinese government instrument could be opened directly; every row is labelled accordingly Medical Tourism in China Independently reported Principal designated zone Boao Lecheng International Medical Tourism Pilot Zone, Hainan, approved 2013[3] Legal mechanism State Council decisions of 2018 suspending central drug and device approval rules inside the … Read more

Unreviewed Written 23 October 2026| 6 sources| Observatory figures read from the 2015-2016 annual report, the most recent published Medical Tourism in Belgium Verified against primary record Statutory basis of the count Law of 4 June 2007, Article 4, in force 1 July 2010[4] Stays by patients not insured in Belgium (2014) 94,740[3] Of those, … Read more

Unreviewed Written 23 October 2026| 6 sources| Dutch outflow cross-checked against the Belgian hospital record that counts it Medical Tourism in the Netherlands Verified against primary record Data reported to the Commission (2023) None supplied; insurers apply their own procedures[1] Cross-border care as a share of the national care budget About 1 per cent[2] EHIC … Read more

Unreviewed Written 23 October 2026| 5 sources| Both directions of the French financial flow read from the CLEISS and Commission records Medical Tourism in France Verified against primary record Reimbursement requests (2023) 180,001 received, 55,615 granted, 81,588 refused[1] Care in France for persons insured abroad (2022) EUR 946.08 million met by French institutions[3] Care abroad … Read more

Unreviewed Written 23 October 2026| 5 sources| German figures read directly from the Commission’s 2023 reference-year data report Medical Tourism in Germany Verified against primary record Prior authorisation requests (2023) 3,910 received, 3,179 authorised, 731 refused[1] Reimbursement requests (2023) 164,143 received, 143,814 granted, 20,319 refused[1] Amount reimbursed, authorised care (2023) EUR 7,589,767[1] National hospital diagnosis … Read more