Healing Tourist is an online medical second opinion and medical tourism service. Senior Indian specialists give you a written second opinion on your diagnosis including a second opinion for surgery or cancer treatment or coordinate treatment abroad in India with a named coordinator and a price that does not move.
Online medical second opinion with international patient services. Upload your scans, pathology and notes; a senior specialist reviews them and writes you a signed opinion a second opinion for surgery or cancer treatment, you can hand to your own doctor. No travel. No video call needed.
A video consultation with a senior specialist who has read your reports before the call. Conducted under NMC Telemedicine Practice Guidelines.
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What Healing Tourist does
Sometimes the original recommendation is sound. Sometimes the condition is better treated at home. Sometimes travel carries more risk than benefit. We publish this number every quarter, whether it flatters us or not, because a facilitator who never says no is not giving you an opinion, they are giving you a sales pitch.
Many patients look to India because major procedures are priced far below Western private rates. These are published patient-reported ranges, not quotes, and not a promise. A second opinion may well conclude that you should not travel at all that is the point of getting one first.
Ranges are patient-reported averages for identical, accredited-hospital care. Your actual figure depends on your diagnosis, city and hospital and is confirmed only in a written, itemised quote.
What this preview is and is not
Please read: Figures shown here are illustrative published ranges for comparison only. They are not medical advice, not an offer, and not a guaranteed price. Healing Tourist is a facilitator, not a healthcare provider, and does not diagnose or treat. Actual costs and clinical suitability are established only after a qualified specialist reviews your records. Bracketed figures {{ }} require verification before release. Prices last reviewed Dec 10, 2025.
The cost gap comes from lower operating costs and exchange rates, not lower standards. Here is what patients weigh when they consider treatment in India stated as verifiable facts, not guarantees.
We work only with NABH-accredited and JCI-accredited facilities, held to internationally recognised safety and quality standards. Accreditation is a floor we insist on never a guarantee of outcome.
Many leading Indian surgeons trained and practised in the US, UK and elsewhere before returning. The specialists on our panel are chosen for seniority and subspecialty depth, not for referral volume.
India is among the world's largest English-speaking countries. Your specialist, care team and your named Healing Tourist coordinator communicate with you directly in English throughout.
Where you might face a 12–18 month queue at home, many procedures in India are scheduled within days of a confirmed plan relevant when a condition should not wait a season.
For medical travel we give a single binding figure with hospital cost and our margin itemised up front. We do not add charges after you arrive.
Records, visa-invitation letter, scheduling and follow-up run through one accountable person not a call-centre queue. You always know who to reach.
Three products, three fee models, all stated up front.
US$100, paid by you. A share of that fee goes to the reviewing specialist. We receive nothing from any hospital, and nothing further if you later choose treatment in India through us, that is a separate, separately priced service.
From ₹3,500, paid by you. We earn nothing from whatever treatment follows. If the specialist recommends surgery, we receive no payment from whoever performs it. This is deliberate.
A facilitation margin inside a fixed quote. Your quote is a single binding figure. The itemisation: what is hospital cost, what is our margin is shown to you before you commit.
These are the questions patients ask most before deciding. We would rather you asked them now than after you have paid.
At the accredited hospitals we work with, clinical standards are held to NABH and JCI benchmarks, and many surgeons trained at major Western institutions. The honest caveat: quality varies by hospital and by surgeon everywhere, which is exactly why we start you with an independent second opinion rather than a booking.
Partner hospitals carry medical liability cover, and your named coordinator stays reachable through recovery and follow-up. We will not, however, promise you an outcome no honest facilitator can. What we promise is transparency about risks before you travel.
Yes. Consultations and the written opinion are in English, and your specialist reads your reports before speaking with you. Translators for other languages can be arranged on request.
India issues an e-Medical Visa that most patients receive within a few business days. We provide the hospital invitation letter and guide the application, but we do not overstate it: approvals are the government's decision, not ours.
It is economics, not corner-cutting: lower operating costs and a favourable exchange rate. If a quote looks too good even by Indian standards, treat that as a warning sign and your second opinion is the check against it.
Then your opinion will say so. Last quarter our panel advised against travel in 43% of international cases. A recommendation to stay home is a valid, common outcome here not a failed sale.
You start with information, not a commitment. Every step is reversible until you choose to proceed.
Upload scans, pathology and notes through a secure portal. Under five minutes.
A senior specialist reads your records and writes a signed, independent opinion.
You receive a written opinion in five working days hand it to your own doctor.
Treat at home, or ask for a fixed, itemised quote for treatment in India. No pressure.
If you travel, one named coordinator handles logistics and post-treatment follow-up.
No. Healing Tourist is a facilitator.
We do not employ doctors, own hospitals, practise medicine, or make diagnoses. We connect you with independently licensed specialists and hospitals, and coordinate the logistics around them. Any doctor–patient relationship formed is between you and that clinician.
US$100 for international patients; from ₹3,500 for patients in India.
The international opinion is a records-only written review delivered within five working days. The domestic service is a live video consultation with three tiers depending on consultant seniority and duration.
Often a large fraction of Western private prices but the honest answer is "it depends, and only a written quote is real."
Published patient-reported ranges put many major procedures at a small fraction of Western private cost for example cardiac bypass around US$6,000–9,000 against US$70,000–200,000. Use the Instant Savings Preview above for order-of-magnitude only. Your actual figure is confirmed in a single itemised quote, and a second opinion may conclude you should not travel at all.
No. The international second opinion requires no travel at all.
You upload your imaging, pathology and clinical notes. A specialist reviews them and writes an opinion. Whether you then travel is a separate decision, and often our panel advises against it.
We work only with NABH-accredited and JCI-accredited hospitals.
These accreditations are held to internationally recognised safety and quality standards. Accreditation is a floor we insist on, not a guarantee of any individual outcome, and we never name a single "best" hospital because the right choice depends on your condition.
Only with the specific reviewing specialist, and only after you authorise it in writing.
Records are not shared with hospital marketing or business-development teams, and are never sold. See our privacy policy for retention periods and your deletion rights.
We will pay a fixed fee per opinion, cap your case volume at whatever you set, and never ask you to recommend a hospital.
Join the founding panel →We publish per-hospital outcomes for the partners we work with. If you would rather we didn't, we are probably not a fit.
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