Eye Surgery Cost in China (2026): Full Price Guide
Every major procedure in one table — cataract, laser vision, glaucoma, retina and eyelid surgery — with dated China ranges against US and EU private-pay medians. Plus what the quoted price actually costs to settle: currency, card fees, the payment ceiling, and what happens to your money if the surgeon declines you.
Read the guide → Pricing · CataractCataract Surgery Cost in China (2026): Monofocal vs Trifocal
Per-eye pricing for monofocal, EDOF and trifocal IOLs, what the fee includes, the 6-day trip timeline, and which lens questions to ask before you fly.
Read the guide → SafetyIs Eye Surgery in China Safe? An Honest Assessment
Surgeon volumes, platform generations, regulation, the real risks with published numbers rather than the word "rare" — plus how to verify a hospital, a doctor and a device, and what cannot be verified at all.
Read the guide → PlanningEye Surgery in China for Foreigners (2026)
International patient departments, whether that door costs more and which bill lines actually change, what's in English, records your home doctor can use, visas and aftercare — plus what happens if you need a revision, and what recourse a foreign patient actually has.
Read the guide → HospitalsBest Eye Hospitals in China (2026)
Zhongshan Ophthalmic, Tongren, EENT of Fudan and the other institutions that define Chinese ophthalmology — which national ranking is actually being quoted, the private chains by disclosed scale, and how to choose by condition.
Read the guide → Pricing · Medical eye careGlaucoma & Retina Treatment Cost in China (2026)
SLT laser, MIGS, trabeculectomy, drainage implants, anti-VEGF courses and vitrectomy — dated national price ranges, the angle-closure ladder China sees most, and how ongoing care is handed back to your home specialist.
Read the guide → Pricing · EyelidPtosis Surgery in China (2026): Cost & Candidacy
Functional droopy-eyelid repair — per-eye pricing, how the technique is chosen by measurement, the honest revision-rate caveats, and the 5–7 day trip. Now also separates ptosis from hooding and eyebags, with cosmetic lid pricing in yuan.
Read the guide → Pricing · CorneaCorneal Transplant in China (2026): Cost & Realities
PK, DALK, DSAEK and DMEK priced by technique — plus an honest account of donor-tissue availability, published graft-survival figures, and the lifelong aftercare a graft commits you to: arranging the home corneal specialist across the three separate jobs a graft creates, the year-one to year-five schedule, and what to leave China with.
Read the guide → Pricing · CorneaKeratoconus Treatment in China (2026): Cross-Linking Cost
Cross-linking, ring segments and specialty lenses priced separately — plus the two tomography scans you need before anyone should treat you, and when not to travel at all.
Read the guide → Pricing · Diabetic eye diseaseDiabetic Retinopathy in China (2026): Cost by Stage
Screening, PRP laser, macular-edema injection courses and diabetic vitrectomy priced by stage — plus which stages justify a trip, and which are better managed at home.
Read the guide → Pricing · Ocular alignmentStrabismus Surgery in China (2026): Cost & Timing
Adult squint correction — dated price ranges by muscle count, how the technique is chosen from the measured angle, the six-month stability rule, and honest reoperation rates.
Read the guide → Paediatric · Myopia controlMyopia Control for Children in China (2026)
Published ortho-K and spectacle costs, the NMPA-approved 0.01% atropine, why red-light devices were reclassified Class III — and an honest test of whether travelling for it works.
Read the guide → Emergency · VitreoretinalRetinal Detachment in China (2026): The Emergency Guide
The one eye emergency you can acquire while already in China — where the 24-hour eye emergency door is, the macula-on and macula-off clocks, walk-in registration and paying.
Read the guide → Genetic · RetinaInherited Retinal Disease in China (2026)
One gene therapy is purchasable — RPE65, ¥480,000 per eye at Lecheng — and it fits under 1% of patients. What the LHON and HG004 trials really offer, and what is sold that is not treatment.
Read the guide → Aftercare · Lens-based surgeryEye Surgery Aftercare Once You Are Home (2026)
The two commonest events after lens surgery peak at 4–6 weeks and at 6 weeks or more — after you have flown. What each costs to fix locally, and the one procedure to refuse first.
Read the guide → Trip planning · Bilateral surgeryBoth Eyes on One Trip in China (2026)
Laser is one session, cataract is not. What actually sets the gap between your two eyes, why a longer gap makes the second one more accurate, and what a second trip really costs.
Read the guide → Pricing · Orbit & oculoplasticsThyroid Eye Disease in China (2026): Drugs & Decompression
China licensed its own IGF-1R antibody in 2025 — course cost against the US list price, orbital decompression ranges, and why surgery has to wait for the inactive phase.
Read the guide → Cities · ShanghaiEye Hospitals in Shanghai for International Patients (2026)
EENT of Fudan — and why its five English names cost people appointments — plus Shanghai General's retina depth, Ninth People's for eyelid surgery, the three access tiers priced before anyone examines you, dated costs, and Shanghai's imported-drug route: what it is and why it is not a reason to book.
Read the guide → Cities · BeijingEye Hospitals in Beijing (2026): Tongren, PUMCH & Access
Three of China's top-ten eye departments are here. Where Beijing really ranks, the documented booking route for foreigners, what you pay at the counter, and dated costs.
Read the guide → Cities · GuangzhouEye Hospitals in Guangzhou (2026): Zhongshan Ophthalmic
China's #1-ranked eye institution in one city, the Aier private layer around it, dated costs, the 240-hour visa-free transit and where it breaks for eye surgery, the three windows of the year not to book — and the site's high and pathologic myopia guide, from screening to ICL candidacy to an honest read of posterior scleral reinforcement.
Read the guide → Cities · ShenzhenEye Hospitals in Shenzhen (2026): the Cross-Border Route
A border crossing rather than a flight — the two institutions that matter, what Hong Kong's voucher and Hospital Authority schemes really cover, what Shenzhen's own insurance covers if you live there, and when to stay put.
Read the guide → Cities · ComparisonShanghai vs Beijing vs Guangzhou (2026)
Side-by-side institutions, cost and English access across all three cities, plus a decision framework organized by condition, not city prestige.
Read the guide → Comparison · DestinationsEye Surgery Abroad (2026): Which Country for Which Problem
Organised by diagnosis rather than price — where India, Turkey, Korea and China each genuinely win, why China is absent from every published round-up, and when the right answer is your own health system.
Read the guide → Comparison · DestinationsEye Surgery in China vs Korea (2026)
Korea received 2.01 million foreign patients in 2025 — 62.9% for dermatology, 87.7% at clinic level. Why routine cataract prices are effectively a tie, and which diagnoses belong in a clinic and which in a tertiary hospital.
Read the comparison → Planning · Money & paperworkInsurance, HSA/FSA & Records for Eye Surgery Abroad (2026)
What actually reimburses treatment received abroad, which travel and drug costs a US HSA or FSA can cover, the bill a foreign hospital must issue, when a claim needs a certified translation rather than an apostille, and the records that make follow-up at home possible.
Read the guide → Comparison · CataractCataract Surgery Abroad (2026): China vs Turkey vs India vs Korea
Per-eye prices by lens class across the four major destinations — plus the volume, lens-availability and aftercare differences the price tables don't show.
Read the guide → Planning · AftercareFlying After Eye Surgery: How Long to Wait, by Procedure
Typical flight-clearance windows for cataract, glaucoma, retina and eyelid surgery — and the one absolute no-fly rule every retina patient must know.
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