Most medical tourism sites are directories where any clinic can pay to list themselves. JetWell is different. We vet thousands of clinics and accept fewer than 2%, every booking includes complication coverage so you're protected if something goes wrong, and an AI concierge helps you find the right clinic without the research nightmare. Safely book hair transplants, dental, LASIK, cosmetic surgery, and more across Thailand, Turkey, Mexico, South Korea, and centers of excellence all of the world.
Hey PH! I'm Joe, founder of JetWell. I built this because I'm a two-time medical tourist myself.
A few years ago I got a hair transplant in Istanbul. Quotes in the US were $15,000 to $20,000. I paid $3,050 in Turkey for 3,800 grafts at a clinic that was honestly nicer than any medical facility I've been to in the States. Then I got LASIK in Bangkok for $1,700 and turned it into a family trip. The total cost of the procedure plus three weeks in Thailand was less than what LASIK alone would have cost me at home.
Both experiences were incredible, but figuring it all out on my own was not. Finding a clinic you can actually trust means hours on Google, Reddit, and YouTube trying to separate real reviews from paid ones. There's no standard vetting, no protection if something goes wrong, and no one place that handles the whole thing and actually looks out for you.
So I built JetWell. We vet thousands of clinics and accept fewer than 2%. Every booking includes travel and complication coverage through JetCover, and our AI concierge helps you find the right procedure and clinic without the research nightmare.
I'm also currently planning several more procedures abroad for myself (shoulder surgery, septoplasty, and laser treatment for sun spots), so I'm very much still a user of what I'm building.
Happy to answer literally anything about medical tourism, startups, or what it's actually like getting a procedure done in another country. Ask away!
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@epicsaurusΒ The vetting process and complication coverage are what stand out to me, since those are usually the biggest concerns with medical tourism. How do you evaluate clinics before accepting them, and what does the complication coverage actually include if a patient needs follow-up care after returning home?
Before a clinic is invited to become a JetWell partner, we look at the publicly available reviews on Google, Trustpilot, etc, verify the clinic/hospital/doctors' credentials and validity of those credentials, and analyze the clinics' complaint histories. If invited, we hold 1:1 interviews with the clinic's management teams and staff. As we get going, we also intend to send a team onsite to verify and film all aspects of the clinic's practices and procedures.
JetCover, our comprehensive travel (emergencies & unplanned procedures) and complication insurance (planned procedures), covers the patient from when they enter the terminal to 180 days after the procedure. $25k is included, but upgrades up to $150k are available. If follow-up care is needed, the insurance covers both local/domestic care and international revisions. Here's a link to the base coverages: https://jetwell.ai/jetcover/terms.
Hope that helps, but let me know if you had any other questions! π
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@epicsaurusΒ The vetting process and complication coverage are what stand out to me, since those are usually the biggest concerns with medical tourism. How do you evaluate clinics before accepting them, and what does the complication coverage actually include if a patient needs follow-up care after returning home?
Go Boldly
@nicole_hynek Thank you for the question!
Before a clinic is invited to become a JetWell partner, we look at the publicly available reviews on Google, Trustpilot, etc, verify the clinic/hospital/doctors' credentials and validity of those credentials, and analyze the clinics' complaint histories. If invited, we hold 1:1 interviews with the clinic's management teams and staff. As we get going, we also intend to send a team onsite to verify and film all aspects of the clinic's practices and procedures.
JetCover, our comprehensive travel (emergencies & unplanned procedures) and complication insurance (planned procedures), covers the patient from when they enter the terminal to 180 days after the procedure. $25k is included, but upgrades up to $150k are available. If follow-up care is needed, the insurance covers both local/domestic care and international revisions. Here's a link to the base coverages: https://jetwell.ai/jetcover/terms.
Hope that helps, but let me know if you had any other questions! π