Healthcare

Healthcare is the thing expats underestimate until the first time they need it. Ho Chi Minh City has genuinely good international hospitals, but the gap between them and a local clinic is large, and so is the gap in price.

This section reviews the main options foreigners use — FV Hospital, Family Medical Practice, Columbia Asia and the international wings of larger hospitals — with what each is actually good at. On insurance, the guides work through AXA and Pacific Cross plan by plan, including the exclusions that matter and how direct billing works in practice.

There is also a guide to English-language mental health support, which is harder to find than the rest and worth knowing about before you need it.

None of this is medical advice.

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