How we list, order and price hospitals

• We list hospitals that hold current NABH full hospital accreditation or current JCI accreditation. NABH-accredited small healthcare organisations are listed as specialist centres.
• For now we list hospitals in Delhi NCR and Chennai.
• We build each listing from the NABH register and the hospital's own website, or its group's. For JCI we accept the hospital's or its group's own statement on its website.
• A hospital marked Listed has not yet confirmed its profile with us. A Verified partner has confirmed its profile and its prices.
• We show the name of the accrediting body only. We keep the certificate dates in our own records, and we take a hospital off the list when its only accreditation is no longer current.
• To check an accreditation yourself, search for the hospital on the JCI register (jointcommissioninternational.org) or the NABH register (nabh.co).

• First come the hospitals in Newsweek World's Best Hospitals 2026, India, in Newsweek's order.
• Then every other hospital: JCI first, then NABH, then NABH for small hospitals, A to Z within each.
• No hospital can pay to move up. A Verified partner gets a badge, never a higher place.
• You can change the order: JCI first, lowest published price (when you choose a treatment), or name. With the price order, hospitals with no published price follow, in the usual order.

A ranked hospital shows its place and the area of the list, for example in India or in a city. The publisher is named at the bottom of each page that shows a rank. Where a hospital page shows ranks from both lists, a small letter after each rank says which list it comes from: a for Newsweek, b for Outlook–NEB.

• Newsweek World's Best Hospitals 2026, India, published by Newsweek and Statista. We show it on lists, hospital pages and treatment pages, and we use it for the first part of the order.
• Outlook–NEB Best Hospital Ranking 2026, published by Outlook and NEB Research. We show it on hospital pages only, and we do not use it for the order.
• Where two hospitals share a place, the label says "Joint".
• Where a publisher ranks a hospital group or a city campus rather than one building, the label names what was ranked.
• We leave out a publisher's ranks for a hospital that advertised in the same issue.

Use rankings with care

• India's range. For each of our ten main treatments we show one price range for India, in US dollars. It comes from prices that hospitals and medical travel services publish. We never use government scheme rates.
• Other countries. We show Turkey, Thailand and the United Arab Emirates the same way, so you can see where India sits. We do not print savings or percentages: a published range is not a quote.
• A hospital's own price. Where a hospital publishes a price on its website, we show that figure on its row and its page. We leave it out if the hospital does not say it applies to patients from abroad, or if its own figures disagree.
• When we show no price. If we found no reliable published price, or our figure is more than a year old, we show "Price on request" and ask the hospital for you.
• Why we keep it simple. We show the range and a bar, the time in hospital and the total time in India. We keep our sources and dates in our records, not on the page, so that the page stays easy to read.
• What decides. Every price is indicative. The hospital gives a written estimate after its doctor reviews your reports, and confirms the final cost after examining you. You pay the hospital directly; Lazuren does not collect treatment payments.

The trip block shows what you spend outside the hospital bill, for the patient and one attendant. It is never added to the treatment price.

• Stay, food and local travel. A day for two at three levels: budget, mid-range and comfortable, at the prices of the city near the hospitals. Hotel prices are the lowest listed rates near the hospitals, before tax, so a stay may cost a little more.
• During the hospital stay. We assume the attendant sleeps in the patient's room and pays for their own meals there. Some hospitals give the attendant meals; not all do.
• Flights. Typical economy return fares over the past twelve months, not a booking. Peak months cost more: from Baghdad, February; from Nairobi, August and December; from Oman and Central Asia, June and July. Booking late costs more too.
• Visas. The medical and medical attendant visa fees India publishes, with the charges added to them: the e-visa bank charge, and in Iraq a welfare-fund charge.
• Country notes. Iraq: a paper visa through the Indian embassy; the visa centre's own charge is not published, so we do not count it. Kazakhstan: India's fee table shows no visa fee, so we count the usual fee until that is confirmed. Kenya: the figure includes the yellow fever vaccination India requires.
• Not counted. The hospital's bill, extra days in hospital, a second attendant, and travel insurance.
• The rupee rate. We convert rupee prices at 1 US dollar = ⁦95.9⁩ rupees.

• Facts such as interpreters, the attendant's stay and the services for patients from abroad are as the hospital states them. Where a hospital shares one international desk with its group, its services are the group's list.
• Where a hospital does not publish a fact you need, the page says "Not stated" and we ask the hospital for you.
• When you ask for an estimate, we confirm the details that matter to you with the hospital in writing.
• Each hospital page shows the date we last checked it.
• The doctors shown are a selection of senior doctors as each hospital publishes them, not its full staff. We show what the hospital publishes: name, designation, qualifications, years of experience and languages. The order is not a rating, and we do not print praise.
• We do not show star ratings or reviews. Each hospital has a link to its reviews on Google Maps.

• We do not show photos of hospitals or doctors on these pages at present.
• The treatment pictures are illustrations made for Lazuren with an AI image tool. They do not show real patients, doctors or hospitals.
• We show no logo or seal of any ranking publisher.

Our treatment pages explain each procedure in plain words, and a doctor has reviewed them. They are general information, not medical advice: the treating doctor explains what applies to you.

• Stored privately. We keep your enquiry and the medical documents you send us in private, encrypted storage. The service providers that help us run the service (website hosting, file storage, email notifications, WhatsApp and Telegram) may store or process data outside India. Hospitals usually receive your documents through a link that stops working after a set time.
• Your contacts stay with us until you go ahead. Before we send your case to a hospital, we remove your phone number and email. Hospitals receive your case through Lazuren and reply to us.
• Only the hospitals you choose. Your reports go to the hospitals you choose, and to others only if you agree. If you ask us to suggest hospitals, we send nothing until you approve them.
• If you go ahead. The hospital you choose for treatment needs your details for the visa invitation letter and your admission. We send them to that hospital only.
• Your rights. You can ask for a summary of what we hold and who received it, ask us to correct or delete it, and withdraw your consent. Hospitals keep their own medical records under Indian law, and we cannot delete those.

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• Every estimate is free today. Later the first stays free and the 2nd and 3rd carry a small fee.
• Hospitals pay us a facilitation fee when we coordinate a patient's care.
• You pay the hospital directly for your treatment, and you may ask the hospital for its direct price.
• No hospital can pay to move up our lists.

Three things are not ready yet. Each one is marked Coming soon, and below each is what happens today.

• Your reports, in your language

  Coming soon

  Today

  Your coordinator explains each hospital's reply to you in your language.

  We are building translation of reports, so you can read them. The hospital's doctor always reads the original.

• A small fee for the 2nd and 3rd estimate

  Coming soon

  Today

  Every estimate is free today.

  Later the first stays free and the 2nd and 3rd carry a small fee. Hospitals pay us a facilitation fee, as they do now.

• A corner for partners

  Coming soon

  Today

  Referring doctors and partner hospitals work with their coordinator on WhatsApp or by email.

  We are building a corner where they can follow their cases and documents in one place.

If a fact on our site is wrong, or a hospital wants a logo removed, tell us and we will correct it.

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