Healthcare in Shanghai for foreigners

Diagnostic tests, imaging & pathology

Prepare the service and record handoff in Shanghai

Use the nationwide planning center to distinguish provider types, check the exact campus and order route, match patient identity, request the required report, images, data or pathology material, and connect the result to the responsible clinician. This city page does not confirm that a named provider offers a particular test or has current capacity.

Adult vaccination & travel health

Verify the exact local clinic, center and document in Shanghai

Use the nationwide planning center to separate an adult vaccination clinic from an International Travel Health Care Center, preserve provider-issued records, and check the actual border or destination requirement. This city page does not confirm a clinic, passport workflow, vaccine stock, appointment, price, certificate service or travel acceptance.

Source review status: Published local route

Provider-specific public service guide identifying the International Certificate of Vaccination or Prophylaxis as a defined output of International Travel Health Care Centers and describing Shanghai service ownership and charges in the stated circumstances. It supports confirming the exact issuing center and document name. It does not apply to every center or branch, replace the 2024 revised border law or WHO certificate rules, identify a traveller's required vaccination, prove eligibility or stock, correct or replace an individual certificate or guarantee acceptance by any destination, transit authority, carrier, school or employer.

Open the reviewed local Shanghai travel-health route

Community health & family doctors

Follow the current Shanghai primary-care route

Verify the responsible community institution, ordinary-visit process, family-doctor eligibility, accepted identity and address evidence, service package, record handling and referral route.

Local basic medical insurance

Use the documented Shanghai implementation

Confirm active participation, the insured place, designated-provider or provider-selection rules, the accepted credential and the settlement status before treating a hospital visit as covered.

Local maternity insurance & benefits

Follow the current Shanghai benefit route

Keep participation, active entitlement, maternity medical expenses, hospital settlement, manual reimbursement and maternity allowance as separate locally controlled records.

Resident & child medical insurance

Verify the current Shanghai foreign-family route

Confirm the adult or child's exact local eligibility category, accepted identity, enrolment and payment event, benefit start date, hospital credential and any guardian requirements before relying on coverage.

Outpatient chronic & special-disease benefits

Use the current Shanghai recognition and treatment route

Keep diagnosis, active participation, the local disease catalogue, formal recognition, validity, selected providers, payment scope and settlement response as separate records.

Work-injury insurance & occupational health

Use the current Shanghai reporting, recognition and benefit route

Protect the person first, then keep the event report, participation record, work-injury recognition, occupational-disease route, agreement-provider care, rehabilitation, labour-capacity assessment and payment decision separate.

Sick leave, medical period & return to work

Use the current Shanghai certificate, pay and employment route

Keep the medical visit and provider document, employer leave record, local sick-pay rule, statutory medical-period ledger, return-to-work evidence and any employment decision separate.

Health examinations & certificates

Use the current Shanghai work, study and residence route

Confirm the exact application, responsible examination or validation center, appointment, identity and preparation rules, final document, validity and receiving authority before relying on the result.

Death, bereavement & repatriation

Use the current Shanghai death-document and funeral-service entry points

Keep medical or police proof, the official funeral-home route, family or representative authority, foreign-national document closure, cremation and international transport as separate tasks. Confirm eligibility before relying on a local benefit or one-stop service.

Disability, rehabilitation & long-term care

Use the current Shanghai assessment, service and payment boundary

Keep clinical rehabilitation, accessibility, disability-certificate programs, assistive devices, long-term care participation, formal assessment, designated services and family charges separate. The four major-city guides state whether the local long-term care route is effective, limited or still in rule-making.