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Reporting

The preventive screening industry as a business: how the models differ, what they cost, who pays, and what the incentives do to the medicine.

Germany

Germany quietly became the cheapest place in the world to buy a serious health check

The same diagnostic workup that costs $7,500 in San Francisco and sits inside a €25,000 Swiss week is available in Berlin and Essen for between €1,400 and €1,900. The reasons have more to do with how German medicine bills than with anything a marketing department decided.

20 Aug 2026

Germany

What Germany gives you free, and what the €1,900 check adds

Every private screening programme in Germany is priced against a statutory benchmark that almost none of them mention. Check-up 35 costs nothing, arrives every three years, and covers about eleven measurements. Here is the gap, itemised.

8 Jul 2026