Founded in 2019 to remove the information barrier between Western patients and Shanghai's Class 3A hospitals. Independent. Owned by the founders. No outside investors. No commissions accepted from any hospital.
Jing'an Office · 2024My father was on a waiting list for a procedure that ten Shanghai surgeons could have performed the next week. The barrier was not money, and it was not capability — it was information.
Medibridge exists to remove that barrier for other families. We are a small team, by choice. We accept no commissions from hospitals. Every cost is disclosed in writing. Every case file passes our medical director's desk before it goes to a hospital.
If you write to us, you will get a personal reply within one business day — from me, or from someone whose name appears on this page.
12 years in cross-border healthcare M&A at a tier-1 Shanghai PE firm. Built the original referral network with Fudan-affiliated institutions in 2019.
Internal medicine, board-certified (US & KR). Reviews every case file. Former hospitalist at NewYork-Presbyterian.
Formerly with a Geneva-based medical evacuation service. Coordinates visas, hotel, transport. On-call from arrival to departure.
CMI-certified medical interpreter (English & Japanese). Builds the bilingual record packets returned to your home physician.
Cost-effectiveness and clinical outcomes at China's elite institutions now rival, and in some specialties surpass, their Western counterparts — drawing a quiet flow of international patients to Shanghai.
For high-acuity surgery, the Shanghai pathway is no longer an outlier. The barrier is information, not capability — services like Medibridge are closing that gap with concierge-grade coordination.
A small but growing referral channel routes Western patients through Shanghai's Class 3A network — translated records, S2 visas, and continuity handed back to home physicians on return.
After being quoted $47,000 in Houston, Medibridge connected me with Dr. Chen at Zhongshan. Total cost including flights and two weeks recovery: $14,200.
My Toronto cardiologist quoted an 8-month wait. Medibridge arranged everything in three weeks. The surgeon had performed over 3,000 bypass procedures.
Quoted $380,000 for CAR-T therapy in the US. Medibridge found a Shanghai team doing the same treatment for $62,000 — visa, translation, and follow-up handled.