Everyone tells you what it costs.
Nobody tells you how it works.
You can find a price for a tummy tuck in Medellín in about nine seconds.
Try finding out how many days you need, whether you can climb stairs on day four, what happens
if your flight home gets cancelled, or who removes your drains when you're back in Ohio.
That's this site. We plan the journey. We never sell the procedure.
The procedure is one day. The trip is three weeks.
Medical tourism content is almost entirely about choosing a surgeon and comparing a price. Both of those get decided in an afternoon. Everything else — the part that actually determines whether your trip goes well — gets one vague paragraph and a stock photo of a beach.
Trip planner
Pick a procedure and get a real day-by-day itinerary, a trip budget, a housing spec, and a checklist. Not a brochure — a plan.
Open02How many days do I need?
The single most-asked question, answered for eighteen procedures, with the reason behind every number.
Open03What the trip actually costs
Flights, lodging, drivers, food, garments, meds, and the buffer nobody budgets for. Zero procedure prices — those live on the procedure sites.
Open04Entry, documents & red tape
Passport rules, Check-Mig, what to bring, what to declare, what customs asks, and how to carry your prescriptions legally.
Open05Where to actually recover
Elevators, altitude, neighborhoods, and the difference between a nice apartment and a survivable one on day four.
Open06After you fly home
Who takes your sutures out in Ohio. What to tell your GP. What a revision policy really means. The question nobody answers.
Open07Combining procedures
What can share one trip, what absolutely cannot, and how stacking changes your anesthesia time, your stay, and your risk.
Open08For the person coming with
Written for seat 14B. What you'll be responsible for, what the week looks like, and how not to lose your mind.
Open09First time leaving the country
SIM cards, taxis, tipping, ATMs, language, and every small thing that feels enormous when you've never done it.
OpenWritten from Medellín. Not from a content farm in Florida.
Most medical tourism sites are run by people who have never been to the country they're writing about. They can tell you a price because a price is a number you can look up. They cannot tell you that the beautiful apartment you just booked in Provenza has a broken elevator and forty-one stairs, or that Bogotá sits at 2,640 metres and that matters on your second post-op night, or that the pharmacy two blocks from the clinic closes at 7pm on Sundays.
I live here. That's the entire advantage, and it's a big one.
Quote you a procedure price. Recommend a specific surgeon by name. Publish a testimonial. Tell you a procedure is safe. Those are decisions for you and a licensed physician, and every one of them requires a conversation this website cannot have.
Tell you exactly how long you'll be gone and why. Show you what the trip costs before anyone touches you. Tell you what to ask, what to verify, and what a bad answer sounds like. Then get out of the way.
Before you go any further
Do you sell surgery or arrange clinics?
No. This site is the logistics layer — timelines, costs, documents, housing, and aftercare planning. When you're ready to compare surgeons and procedure pricing, we hand you to Colombia Medical and the procedure-specific sites.
Are the cost figures quotes?
No. Everything here is a typical 2026 planning range compiled from the ground in Medellín. Ranges move constantly with the exchange rate and the season. Treat them as a budgeting tool, never as a price.
Why should I trust a website about this?
You shouldn't, on its own. Verify every surgeon on ReTHUS, Colombia's national health-professional registry. Verify hospital accreditation at the hospital level. Ask any clinic for written confirmation of anything we tell you. Our job is to tell you what to check, not to be the final word.
Is Colombia actually a reasonable place to do this?
Colombia's health system ranked #22 globally and first in the Western Hemisphere in the World Health Organization's 2000 World Health Report. That report is now decades old and should be read as historical context, not a current ranking. What matters more for you is the specific surgeon, the specific facility, and your own homework.
Who runs this?
Andy, through Scout Theory LLC. Based in Medellín, not in an office in Florida. Same time zone as your clinic, same city as your recovery apartment.
Twelve questions. One plan.
The planner asks what you're having done, where you're flying from, and how you like to travel. Then it builds a day-by-day itinerary, a trip budget, a housing spec, and a document checklist you can print.