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Using hospitals
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Start with a topic center, then open the guide that matches your exact task. The library covers administrative navigation—not diagnosis, treatment choices or provider rankings.
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Tests, medicines & records
Understand the administrative steps around tests, prescriptions, records and follow-up.
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Medicines & pharmacies
Check prescription routes, licensed sellers, medicine packaging, proof of sale and travel preparation.
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Insurance & costs
Prepare payment options, insurer approvals, receipts and claim documents.
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Routine, diagnostic & specialist care
Find source-led routes for tests, specialist services, procedures, rehabilitation and ongoing care without turning navigation into treatment advice.
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Emergency & urgent care
Verify emergency departments and after-hours routes, then navigate registration, payment, observation, admission, records and follow-up without self-triage advice.
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Problem resolution
Separate hospital complaints, medical-dispute evidence, negotiation, mediation, appraisal and court-controlled processes from record, refund, insurance and provider-verification problems.
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Maternity & newborn administration
Prepare maternity bookings, childbirth admission, birth documents and foreign-newborn registration, with shared entry links into pediatric care.
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Pediatric & child healthcare
Choose a pediatric service, register a child, protect guardian and consent records, and organize child health, medicines, costs and continuity without clinical advice.
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Diagnostic tests, imaging & pathology
Choose and verify a diagnostic service, keep orders, specimens, reports, images and pathology materials traceable, and close the responsible clinical follow-up loop without interpreting results.
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Adult vaccination & travel health
Verify adult vaccination services, preserve records, use the correct travel-health center and certificate route, and recheck live border and destination requirements without vaccine advice.
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International patient intake
Submit a planned-care enquiry, track provider review, confirm admission and travel-document support, verify coordinators and recover a stalled intake safely.
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Basic medical insurance
Confirm active participation, use the correct city route, preserve direct-settlement evidence and keep identity or location changes traceable.
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Resident & child medical insurance
Check whether a foreign adult or child has a current local eligibility route, record the enrolment event and preserve hospital-use and continuity evidence.
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Outpatient chronic & special-disease benefits
Separate diagnosis, local benefit recognition, validity, selected providers, payment scope and cross-region settlement for ongoing outpatient care.
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Work-injury insurance & occupational health
Keep accident reporting, work-injury recognition, occupational-disease diagnosis, treatment, rehabilitation, assessment and benefit payment as separate records.
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Sick leave, medical period & return to work
Separate provider-issued medical evidence, employer leave, sick pay, the statutory medical period, return-to-work records and employment decisions.
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Health examinations & certificates
Match work, study and residence examinations to the correct institution, report, validation, recipient and administrative decision.
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Death, bereavement & repatriation
Coordinate death confirmation, official documents, funeral-home services, immigration closure, cremation, ashes and international remains transport.
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Disability, rehabilitation & long-term care
Separate disability records, rehabilitation, accessibility, assistive devices and long-term care insurance through current national and city routes.
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Medical consent, guardianship & decision support
Separate patient decisions, consent, guardianship, authorization, record access, privacy, emergencies and advance care planning through current national and city routes.
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Hospital admission, surgery & discharge
Prepare a planned admission, inpatient stay, scheduled surgery, payment, language support, records, discharge and follow-up without turning administration into clinical advice.
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Dental & oral care
Choose and verify a dental route, book care, compare written quotes, preserve records and maintain payment and treatment handoffs without providing dental advice.
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Eye & vision care
Choose and verify an eye-care route, book ophthalmology, preserve examination and optical records, compare written charges and maintain safe provider handoffs.
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Internet hospitals & online care
Verify a regulated online-care route, prepare follow-up records, preserve prescriptions and payment evidence, and move safely between online and physical institutions.
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Mental health & psychiatric care
Separate psychological assistance, counselling and clinical psychiatric care; protect consent and records; and organize costs, medicines, continuity and rights.
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Women’s health & gynecology care
Choose and verify women’s health, gynecology, screening and reproductive-service routes while keeping consent, records, prices and continuity traceable.
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Maternity insurance & benefits
Separate participation, hospital settlement, maternity medical expenses, manual reimbursement and maternity allowance through the responsible local route.
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Community health & family doctors
Find community health institutions, understand family-doctor contracts and follow the correct local route for records, referrals and continuing care.
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Living in China
Practical language plus source-led health-examination, certificate and longer-stay administration routes.
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Medical Chinese
Chinese characters and pinyin for hospital navigation, with explicit limits around clinical communication.
Open topic centerNew to healthcare in China?
Start with the essentials
These guides cover the questions that usually come first: choosing a care setting, registering, paying, using insurance and keeping records.
Using hospitals · 32 min read
Your first hospital visit in China
A step-by-step guide for foreigners to choose a hospital, book, register with a passport, communicate, pay, complete tests, collect medicine and follow up.
Read the guideUsing hospitals · 15 min read
How China’s healthcare system works for foreigners
Understand community care, hospital levels, public and international routes, passport registration, payment, insurance and follow-up.
Read the guideUsing hospitals · 16 min read
How to book a hospital appointment in China
Foreigners can book China hospital appointments by official website, app, WeChat, phone or international office. Use a passport-safe route and verify the slot.
Read the guideUsing hospitals · 31 min read
Public, private and international hospitals in China
Compare public, special-service, private, international and specialist hospital routes in China by capability, access, language, cost and insurance.
Read the guideUsing hospitals · 16 min read
Hospital registration in China with a foreign passport
What foreign patients should bring, how to create or recover a hospital record, and what to do when an app or machine rejects a passport.
Read the guideInsurance & costs · 13 min read
Paying hospital bills and keeping receipts
Map every charge from hospital order to payment, final settlement, itemized statement and the receipt your insurer or employer actually requires.
Read the guideInsurance & costs · 13 min read
Insurance documents for a hospital visit in China
Prepare the identity, policy, hospital, authorization and fallback claim records needed to confirm the payment route before a visit.
Read the guideTests, medicines & records · 29 min read
How to get medical records from a hospital in China
Request China hospital records, collect formal copies and images, authorize a representative, translate files and confirm secure receipt.
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Using hospitals · 13 min read
Hospital admission and bed confirmation in China
How to tell whether a hospital bed is confirmed, what to ask before arrival, which documents to bring and what to do if the bed changes.
Routine, diagnostic & specialist care · 15 min read
How to continue chronic care after moving to China
A practical handover plan for medical records, prescriptions, appointments, insurance and refills before and after your move.
Insurance & costs · 25 min read
Maternity insurance in Guangzhou for foreign employees
How foreign employees use maternity insurance in Guangzhou, what to check before hospital care, which documents to keep and how benefits are claimed.
Insurance & costs · 30 min read
Work injury insurance in China for foreign employees
What to do after a workplace injury in China, how foreign employees use work injury insurance, what to keep and what to confirm with the employer.
Living in China · 16 min read
Work permit health checks in China: a practical guide
Where to book, what to bring, how overseas reports work and which health certificate your employer may need.
Using hospitals · 18 min read
English-speaking hospitals and interpreter services in China
Find English-speaking hospitals, interpreter and medical translation support in China, then confirm the provider, visit and communication task.
Insurance & costs · 14 min read
Health insurance for a foreign assignment to China
Verify an employer or group health plan before a China assignment, then prepare each family member, hospital route, payment fallback and job-exit handoff.
Insurance & costs · 18 min read
China basic medical insurance for foreign employees
Confirm enrolment, active participation, insured city, accepted credentials and hospital settlement before relying on China employee medical insurance.
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