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Best Vietnam healthcare sources: what each record shows

By the Vietnam Expat team. Last reviewed 2026-09-23

Best Vietnam healthcare sources are the hospital price lists, government portals and travel advisories we open and read ourselves, each dated on the page [1]. Today's State Bank rate reads 25,635 VND per US dollar [3]. Eight sites have blocked us so far, so several provider claims stay marked as self reported, not confirmed.

Key facts

Who this is for: Anyone checking whether a hospital price, insurance rule or blocked site claim on our healthcare pages traces back to a real, dated record before they act on it.
Cost: Free. Every named source is a public government portal, a hospital's own page or a data publisher, not a paid database.
Time: One click to open the numbered source, then a side by side check of the figure and the date against today.
Documents: The numbered link at the bottom of the page, the date printed beside the marker, and the exact figure to match against the live page.
What changed recently: The State Bank's exchange rate moved from 25,637 to 25,640 to 25,635 dong per dollar across three days this week [3]. Vinmec, one medical practice site and JCI's own accreditation list all stayed blocked on our latest check.
What is still unverified: JCI's own accreditation records, whether a foreign resident without a work contract can join national insurance, and current fees at Vinmec's hospitals directly.

This page names the record behind every healthcare fact on our other pages: a hospital price list, a government portal, a travel advisory. Where a site blocked us, we say so, and we name what we used instead [2].

We rechecked eight of those records live on 23 September 2026. Three sites still blocked us the same way as before [13][14][15].

Five more sites have blocked every attempt: Da Nang Hospital and Cho Ray Hospital since 22 September, and the US State Department, Smartraveller and the US embassy since 21 September [17][18][19]. Eight sites in total have blocked us so far.

Our healthcare overview links out to every page this record supports, including our guide to the best healthcare in Vietnam.

Which records count as best Vietnam healthcare sources?

A best Vietnam healthcare source, to us, is a page from the body that made the figure. A government portal, a hospital's own price list and a data publisher such as the World Bank all qualify [1][4][5].

A blog post or forum thread that repeats someone else's number does not qualify, even if the number is correct. We trace every figure back to where it started, not to where we happened to read it.

Source type	Example we used	What it shows	Checked
Government law text	Law 51/2024/QH15 [5]	Who must join national health insurance, and from what date	2024-11-27
Government travel advisory	Government of Canada, Vietnam page [6]	Where care is limited, and that ambulance response may be slow	2026-09-09
Government facility list	UK FCDO list of medical facilities [2]	Named hospitals and clinics, with an explicit non endorsement	2022-06-24, rechecked 2026-09-23
International data publisher	World Bank, World Development Indicators [4]	Life expectancy, physicians per person, health spending	2026-07-13, rechecked 2026-09-23
Hospital's own price list	Raffles Medical Vietnam [1]	Consultation fees by doctor type, and what they exclude	2026-09-21, rechecked 2026-09-23
State run news agency	VietnamPlus, citing the Ministry of Health [7]	National hospital count and ownership split	2025-08-06

Source: the six pages above. Three were checked live again on 2026-09-23 [1][2][4]. The law text, the travel advisory and the news article were read on 2026-09-21 and reused here [5][6][7].

How do we handle a hospital's own claim about itself?

We print a hospital's accreditation, insurer count or bed number as its own statement, not as a fact we confirmed. FV Hospital states four JCI cycles since 2016, most recently in 2025, with a score over 98 percent [8].

We could not confirm that claim. Joint Commission International's own list returned an access error on every attempt we made this week [14]. Hoan My Da Nang and other providers make similar self reported claims [9].

What happens when a hospital or government site blocks us?

Eight sites have blocked a direct request from us since 21 September 2026. Vinmec's own site and Joint Commission International's accreditation list both returned an access error on 23 September [13][14].

A medical practice site we use for Da Nang and Ho Chi Minh City failed the same day, with a broken security certificate [15]. Da Nang Hospital and Cho Ray Hospital have blocked every connection since 22 September [17][18].

The US State Department, Smartraveller and the US embassy have blocked us since 21 September [19]. We do not use a number we cannot source.

Instead we check whether the Internet Archive holds a working copy of the same page. It did, for Vinmec's Da Nang hospital page and its fee schedule, archived on 17 February and 19 August 2026 [10][16].

Site we tried	What happened	Checked	What we used instead
vinmec.com, direct	Access error, HTTP 403 [13]	2026-09-23	The UK's 2022 list [2], or an archive copy [10]
jointcommissioninternational.org	Access error, HTTP 403 [14]	2026-09-23	The hospital's own statement, self reported [8]
vietnammedicalpractice.com	Broken certificate chain [15]	2026-09-23	The UK's 2022 list [2]
dananghospital.org.vn	Connection refused or timed out [17]	2026-09-25	Not used on this page
choray.vn and bvchoray.vn	No DNS on one domain, refused on the other [18]	2026-09-25	The UK's 2022 list [2]
travel.state.gov, smartraveller.gov.au, vn.usembassy.gov	Access error; timed out; proxy authentication error [19]	2026-09-25	Canada's travel advisory [6]

Source: the eight block attempts above, checked live between 2026-09-21 and 2026-09-25 [2][6][8][10][13][14][15][17][18][19].

How do we turn a VND price into a dollar figure?

We use the State Bank of Vietnam's own rate for the day we check a price, never a rounded or remembered number. Today's rate is 25,635 dong per US dollar, under notice 394/TB-NHNN [3].

That rate moved on each of the last three days we checked it. It read 25,637 on Monday, 25,640 on Tuesday and 25,635 today, a swing of five dong [3]. A dollar figure on our pages carries the date of the rate we used.

Which healthcare claims could we not confirm?

Four gaps remain open after this check. Joint Commission International's own records could not confirm what hospitals say about their JCI status. Its list stayed blocked through three checks between 21 and 23 September 2026 [14].

Vietnam's health insurance law names foreign workers on year long contracts and foreign students on state scholarships [5]. It does not name a foreign resident with no work contract. We flag that gap instead of guessing at an answer.

Current fees at Vinmec's hospitals stayed out of reach every time we tried a direct fetch [13]. A medical practice site's home page blocked the same kind of direct check on 23 September 2026 [15]. We still read its current price list from an image on its own domain, confirmed on 22 September 2026.

Cho Ray Hospital's phone number, +84 (0)28 3855 4137, comes from the UK government's 2022 facility list [2]. Neither of the hospital's own two domains would load for us, so we could not confirm it is still current.

How do we decide which hospital or clinic to name?

We name a hospital or clinic when it publishes its own address, prices or care on a page we can open. Hanoi French Hospital and City International Hospital both do this [11][12].

We do not rank hospitals against each other. We have no source for a ranking of Vietnamese hospitals aimed at foreign patients, and printing our own would not be a sourced fact, so we skip it.

For hospital by hospital notes, see our comparison of hospitals. The same checking process backs our guide to hospitals in Ho Chi Minh City and our guide to hospitals in Da Nang.

How can you check one of our healthcare numbers yourself?

Every number on our healthcare pages carries a bracketed marker. It links to a numbered source at the bottom of the page. Open that link, not a search result about it.

Check the date on the source page against the date we printed next to the marker.
Match the exact figure. A rounded or remembered version is not the same fact.
If the page will not load, try an Internet Archive copy before you assume the number is wrong [16].
For anything you plan to spend money on, call the provider and ask for a written quote.

A provider's price list can change the week after we check it. Treat every figure on this page as a starting point for your own written quote, not as today's bill.

What we could not verify

Whether Joint Commission International's own records confirm the JCI accreditation years that FV Hospital and other providers state about themselves. Its accredited organizations list returned an access error on every attempt we made between 21 and 23 September 2026 [14].
Whether a foreign resident without a work contract can join Vietnam's national health insurance as a self paying member. The law's self paying group has no named foreign resident row [5].
Current fees, phone numbers and addresses at Vinmec's hospitals directly. Every direct check has blocked us, most recently on 23 September 2026 [13]. A medical practice site's home page blocked the same kind of direct check that day too [15], though we read its current price list from an image on its own domain, confirmed on 22 September 2026.
Whether Cho Ray Hospital's phone number, +84 (0)28 3855 4137 on the UK government's 2022 facility list [2], is still current. Neither of the hospital's two domains would load for us to confirm it.

Frequently asked questions

What counts as a primary source for a Vietnam healthcare page?

We treat a source as primary when it is the government body, hospital or data publisher that created the figure, and we check and date it ourselves. A price list on a hospital's own domain counts [1]. A number copied from a forum post or another blog does not, no matter how often it repeats online.

Why does a hospital price on this site carry today's exchange rate instead of a rounded one?

The State Bank of Vietnam's central rate moved on each of three consecutive days this week, from 25,637 to 25,640 and then to 25,635 dong per dollar [3]. A rounded, undated rate goes stale quietly. We date every conversion so a reader can judge its age.

Which hospital or government websites blocked your research?

Eight sites have blocked a direct check: Vinmec, JCI and a medical practice site on 23 September 2026 [13][14][15], Da Nang Hospital and Cho Ray Hospital on 22 September [17][18], and the US State Department, Smartraveller and the US embassy on 21 September [19]. We name each block instead of leaving a silent gap.

How do you handle a hospital's own accreditation claim, like a JCI award?

We print it as the hospital's own statement, not a confirmed fact, because Joint Commission International's own accredited organizations list returned an access error on every attempt we made [14]. FV Hospital states four JCI cycles since 2016 with a 2025 compliance score over 98 percent [8]. We could not confirm that figure with the accrediting body.

Why does the UK government's facility list carry a 2022 date next to a newer hospital address?

The UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office last updated its Vietnam facility list on 24 June 2022, rechecked this week [2]. A list frozen at one date can fall behind a hospital's own page, so we compare both before we print an address. We keep the list's date visible so a reader can judge what changed.

What do you do when a hospital's price list is only available as an image?

One medical practice's group price list exists only as a picture file on its own domain, not as readable page text. We downloaded the image and read it with an image reading tool, not OCR, then recorded the price and date printed on the sheet. A picture is still a usable source once read this way.

Can a foreigner without a work contract join Vietnam's national health insurance, based on your sources?

The amended health insurance law names foreign employees on contracts of 12 months or more and foreign students on state scholarships [5]. It also has a self paying group for people outside those categories, but no government page we opened names foreign residents inside it by name. We mark that gap and point readers to a licensed adviser.

How do you find information after a government or hospital site blocks you?

We check whether the Internet Archive holds a saved copy of the same page, which worked for Vinmec's Da Nang hospital page and its price sheet, archived on 17 February and 19 August 2026 [10][16]. When no archive exists either, we say so and use the most recent source that did answer, such as the UK government's list [2].

Why doesn't this page rank hospitals against each other?

We have no source for a ranking of Vietnamese hospitals aimed at foreign patients, so printing one would not be a sourced fact. Instead we print what each hospital publishes about its own prices [1][11][12], and leave the comparison to the reader's own priorities and budget.

What happens when two of your sources disagree on an address?

We print both and say which one is newer. The UK list gives FV Hospital's 2022 address in Tan Phu Ward [2], while FV's own current page names Tan My Ward instead [20]. The government list has not been revised since 2022, so for a current address we trust the page the hospital maintains itself over the older list.

How often do you recheck a healthcare source?

Each price, rate and blocked site carries the date of its own last live check: 23 September 2026 for the Raffles prices and the State Bank rate [1][3], 25 September for the blocked sites [17][18][19]. A law or a fixed list, like the 2022 UK facility list, waits for its publisher to revise it [2][5].

What should I do if a hospital's price differs from what this site shows?

Trust the hospital over us, then tell us. Every price here traces to a dated page on the provider's own site [1][11][12], and providers change their lists without notice. Call the number on that provider's page, ask for a written quote, and treat our figure as a starting point, not today's bill.

Do you use Reddit or forum posts as healthcare sources?

Not for a price, a rule or an accreditation claim. Crowd platforms can point us toward a question worth checking, but the answer on this site always traces to a government page, a hospital's own page or a data publisher such as the World Bank [4][5]. Anything else gets labeled unverified rather than printed as fact.

Why do some hospitals on this site have a phone number and others say the site was not checked?

We print a number only from a page we opened ourselves, and we name whose page it is. Cho Ray Hospital's number, +84 (0)28 3855 4137, comes from the UK government's 2022 facility list [2]. Neither of that hospital's two domains would load for us, so we could not confirm it on the hospital's own site.

Sources

Raffles Medical Vietnam, price list, 2026-09-23. Lists consultation fees by doctor type in Vietnamese dong and states that fees exclude medication, laboratory tests and x-rays.
UK Foreign, Commonwealth and Development Office, list of medical facilities in Vietnam, 2022-06-24. Names hospitals and clinics with addresses and English speaking staff ratings, with an explicit non endorsement line.
State Bank of Vietnam, central exchange rate, 2026-09-23. Central rate of 25,635 VND per US dollar under notice 394/TB-NHNN, published for 23 September 2026.
World Bank, World Development Indicators for Vietnam and the United States, 2026-07-13. Life expectancy, physicians per person and health spending, last updated 13 July 2026 and unchanged on a live recheck.
Vietnam Government Portal, full text of Law 51/2024/QH15, 2024-11-27. Sets who must join national health insurance and the self paying group's catch all category, with effective dates in 2025.
Government of Canada, Vietnam travel advice, 2026-09-09. Says medical facilities and supplies are limited outside Hanoi and Ho Chi Minh City.
VietnamPlus, Vietnam News Agency, citing the Ministry of Health, 2025-08-06. Reports 1,665 hospitals nationwide, of which 384 are non public.
FV Hospital, awards and accreditations, 2026-09-21. States FV's own JCI accreditation history in 2016, 2019, 2022 and 2025 with a compliance score over 98 percent.
Hoan My Da Nang hospital, 2026-09-21. States its own insurer count and a 30 bed emergency department.
Vinmec Da Nang international service fee schedule, Internet Archive copy, 2026-08-19. Lists a standard consultation price of 690,000 VND, read from an archived copy of Vinmec's own PDF.
Hanoi French Hospital, price and payment policy, 2026-09-21. States its reference price list applies from 1 January 2025 and is labeled for Vietnamese customers.
City International Hospital, price list, 2026-09-21. Marks its own listed prices as support prices for patients without international private insurance.
Vinmec, English home page, 2026-09-23. Returned an HTTP 403 access error to our own direct fetch attempt.
Joint Commission International, accredited organizations page, 2026-09-23. Returned an HTTP 403 access error to our own direct fetch attempt.
Vietnam Medical Practice, home page, 2026-09-23. Failed our own direct fetch attempt with an incomplete TLS certificate chain.
Internet Archive, Wayback Machine CDX index API, 2026-09-25. Lists a working archived copy of Vinmec's Da Nang hospital page, dated 17 February 2026, in its snapshot index.
Da Nang Hospital, home page, 2026-09-25. Timed out on our own direct fetch attempt, unreachable on every check since 22 September 2026.
Cho Ray Hospital, secondary domain, 2026-09-25. Timed out on our own direct fetch attempt. Cho Ray's other domain, choray.vn, has no DNS record at all.
US Department of State, Vietnam travel information, 2026-09-25. Returned an HTTP 403 access error. The Australian government's Smartraveller page timed out and the US embassy's own site returned an HTTP 407 proxy authentication response on the same check.
FV Hospital, cost advantage page, 2026-09-29. States FV Hospital's own current street address as 6 Nguyen Luong Bang Street, Tan My Ward, Ho Chi Minh City.