5 Best Hospitals in Chiang Mai for Foreigners (2026): Insurers, Room Rates and Emergency Care

This guide compares five hospitals in Chiang Mai's city district, Mueang Chiang Mai. Three are private (Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai Ram and Lanna), one is the private hospital of Chiang Mai University's medical faculty (Sriphat), and one is run by a foundation of the Church of Christ in Thailand (McCormick). They differ on price, on which insurers they list, and on which services for foreign patients they state. Every figure below comes from the hospital's own pages, with its date, and the sources are listed at the end.

1. Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai (BHC)#

Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai, opened in 2014, is the Chiang Mai hospital of Bangkok Dusit Medical Services (BDMS), which describes itself as Thailand's largest private hospital operator, with 60 hospitals as of August 2026. It carries the Bangkok Hospital brand, one of 32 Bangkok Hospital-branded hospitals in that network. Its International Medical Services team provides interpreters and medical coordinators for overseas visitors and expatriates, and the hospital publishes the 44 insurers and assistance companies it has contracts with.

The trade-off is price: its standard room has the highest published rate of the five. None of the five publishes a doctor's consultation fee, but the room rates show the gap. A standard single room here costs ฿4,650 a day after the hospital's listed discount of 25 to 40 percent, with nursing, hospital service and three Thai meals (2026 sheet, valid to 31 December 2026). A single room at Lanna costs ฿2,880 on its list of 16 March 2024.

• Insurers: the hospital publishes the 44 insurers and assistance companies it has contracts with, among them Allianz Worldwide Care, April International, AXA Insurance, Chubb Samaggi, Pacific Cross and Thai Health Insurance (list read 28 October 2026); check yours there.
• Centres: heart, bone and joint, cancer, brain, women's health, digestive and liver, and health check-ups.
• Location: 88/8-9 Moo 6, Chiang Mai-Lampang Superhighway, Nong Pa Khrang, on the east side of the city, so it is quickest to reach from the east.
• Emergency: open 24 hours, seven days a week; the 24-hour hotline is 1719 within Thailand. International Medical Services also offers phone language support in 24 other languages around the clock.
• Accreditation: listed in Joint Commission International's directory (Hospital Program, effective date 29 August 2015, checked 28 October 2026).

2. Chiang Mai Ram Hospital#

Chiang Mai Ram, opened in 1993, is a private hospital founded by Chiang Mai doctors together with Ramkhamhaeng Hospital in Bangkok. Its published room rate is below Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai's: ฿3,800 a day for a deluxe room with nursing and medical service (list updated 29 January 2026). Its International Patient Service Center provides medical interpreters in seven languages (English, French, German, Chinese, Japanese, Burmese and Korean); ask for one when you book.

Its specialist centres include a heart catheter (balloon) centre, a paralysis treatment centre and a children's hospital. Patients who pay themselves get 20 percent off room, medicine, X-ray and lab charges on bills of ฿10,000 or more with the hospital's free Platinum card; doctor fees, packages and dental work are excluded (offer published 3 September 2026).

• Best fit: patients paying themselves who want a private hospital with a lower published room rate than Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai, and families, through its children's hospital.
• Insurers: the hospital publishes 71 insurance and assistance partners, 21 of them under English names such as International SOS, Henner, APRIL Assistance, Euro-Center and HTH Worldwide (GeoBlue); check yours there.
• Location: 8 Bunruangrit Road, Si Phum, just west of the Old City, a short Grab ride from Nimman, Santitham or the Old City.
• Emergency: the hospital runs a 24-hour emergency ambulance and patient-transfer service with emergency medicine doctors, on 052-004601.
• Accreditation: listed in Joint Commission International's directory (Hospital Program, effective date 7 November 2009, checked 28 October 2026).

3. Lanna Hospital#

Lanna Hospital is a private hospital, run by a company listed on the Stock Exchange of Thailand since 1994. Its published single-room rate, ฿2,880 a day with meals, nursing and medical service (list of 16 March 2024), is below Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai's and Chiang Mai Ram's. Its English-language page states that all its doctors speak English (the page is undated), and its credit and finance department, open 24 hours, has staff for international billing.

• Best fit: patients paying themselves, Social Security members registered there, and dental care. Its dental clinic is open daily from 8am to 8pm on the second floor of Building A, with a published price list.
• Centres: cardiac catheterisation, gynaecologic cancer, back pain, stroke catheter treatment and sleep testing.
• Insurers: an English page lists overseas insurers, but it is old and names several companies under former names; confirm yours by phone.
• Emergency: the emergency centre has doctors and nurses on duty 24 hours; ambulance 052-134-777.
• Location: 1 Sukkasem Road, Pa Tan, about 2.3 km north of the Old City's Chang Phueak Gate in a straight line (our measurement); farther from the Old City than Chiang Mai Ram or Sriphat, but inside Mueang Chiang Mai.

4. Sriphat Medical Center#

Sriphat Medical Center is a 171-bed hospital that Chiang Mai University set up in 1997, in the Sriphat Building on the grounds of Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital, the university hospital. Its doctors are Faculty of Medicine staff, and its clinics include haematology, rheumatology, neurology, endocrinology, oncology and a heart centre. Its standard private room costs ฿3,500 to ฿3,800 a day with doctor and nursing fees, plus ฿220 a meal (rates from 15 January 2026). Its Foreign Center, on the first floor of the out-patient building, offers interpreters, medical coordination, and out-patient and in-patient credit once your insurer's letter of guarantee has arrived. It does not accept Social Security or government benefit schemes.

• Best fit: booked specialist consultations and second opinions, and patients of the 61 international insurers and assistance companies its Foreign Center lists, among them Bupa Global and Aetna International.
• Specialists: Faculty of Medicine staff, across the clinics named above.
• Location: 110/392 Inthawarorot Road, Si Phum, on the Maharaj Nakorn Chiang Mai Hospital grounds west of the Old City, a short ride from Nimman.

5. McCormick Hospital#

McCormick describes itself as the second hospital in Thailand and the first outside Bangkok. It grew from the American Mission Hospital, opened by American Presbyterian missionaries in 1888, took the McCormick name on its present site east of the Ping River in 1924, and is run by a foundation of the Church of Christ in Thailand. Today it is a general hospital with MRI, 64-slice CT, medical and surgical intensive care and a 24-hour emergency department. It publishes its room rates: ฿2,800 a day for a standard air-conditioned single room (room ฿1,700, nursing ฿700, hospital service ฿400) and ฿2,600 in the Kanda building, with doctor fees extra (rates from 27 February 2026).

• Best fit: families with children, and patients paying themselves who want a low published room rate. Its Child Health Center, staffed by paediatricians, is open daily from 8am to 8pm, and it runs a child development clinic.
• Specialists: its listed clinics include obstetrics and gynaecology, neurology and neurosurgery, cardiology, oncology, urology and a bone and joint centre.
• Emergency: open 24 hours; the emergency department's direct line is 053-921-799.
• Website: in Thai, with no insurer list or foreign-patient service named; call 053-921777 before a planned visit.
• Location: 133 Kaew Nawarat Road, east of the Ping River; with Bangkok Hospital, one of the two east-side hospitals on this list.

Quick comparison#

What this list deliberately does not do#

We have not assigned numerical scores or ranked the hospitals against each other. None of the five publishes a doctor's consultation fee (Lanna lists dental check-ups at ฿200 to ฿300), so we quote none. Room rates and fixed-price packages are published with dates, and we quote those with their dates. Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai, Chiang Mai Ram and Sriphat publish the insurers they work with, and Lanna has an older list; McCormick publishes none. Only the hospital can confirm your insurer on the day of your visit.

Rajavej Chiang Mai Hospital, on the Chiang Mai-Lamphun Road in Wat Ket, is not one of the five but is worth knowing if you pay yourself or are covered by Social Security. It publishes the lowest standard room rate above before nursing, which it charges separately, and a ฿22,000 normal-delivery package valid to 31 December 2026 (the baby's costs and any complications are extra). It is on the Social Security Office's 2025 list of Chiang Mai hospitals, as are Lanna and Maharaj Nakorn.

How to choose between them#

If you have international insurance, start with the hospitals that publish their insurer lists and run services for foreign patients: Bangkok Hospital Chiang Mai (44 contracted insurers) and Chiang Mai Ram (71 partners). For a booked specialist consultation, Sriphat's doctors are Faculty of Medicine staff. For children, McCormick runs a Child Health Center open daily from 8am to 8pm, and Chiang Mai Ram has a children's hospital. If you pay yourself, compare the room rates above: Lanna and McCormick publish the lowest single-room rates of the five, and Rajavej's standard room costs less before nursing. In an emergency, skip Sriphat: it lists no emergency department.