costa rican market intelligence healthcare – Global Health Intelligence – Healthcare Market Insights for Emerging Markets https://globalhealthintelligence.com The leading source for hospital data and market intelligence across Latin America and Asia. Mon, 01 Dec 2025 19:25:40 +0000 en-US hourly 1 https://wordpress.org/?v=6.9.1 https://globalhealthintelligence.com/wp-content/uploads/2025/11/cropped-Profile-32x32.png costa rican market intelligence healthcare – Global Health Intelligence – Healthcare Market Insights for Emerging Markets https://globalhealthintelligence.com 32 32 Costa Rica’s healthcare services rank second best in the world https://globalhealthintelligence.com/news/costa-ricas-healthcare-services-rank-second-best-world/ Tue, 28 Feb 2017 05:11:28 +0000 https://globalhealthintelligence.com/?p=3363 An international magazine has ranked Costa Rica’s healthcare second in the world. Living Magazine studied about the worries of retired Americans living abroad. Healthcare is their number one priority. Additionally, over 40,000 Americans visit Costa Rica just to get medical services, especially dental services. American doctors say that the healthcare in Costa Rica has high-quality standards and is available at low costs. In contrast, American healthcare is one of the most expensive in the world. The average cost of a hospital stay is up to USD 18,000. Medical tourists in Costa Rica can avail healthcare benefits of appointments, surgery, prescriptions and more by paying only a fraction of what it costs in the US. Japan, Germany, France, China, United Kingdom, Italy, Canada, Brazil, Spain and Australia are the other members of that ranking. It’s really baffling to know that USD 750 billion a year in healthcare is being wasted in America. One of the advantages for foreigners in Costa Rica is that they can get covered by CCSS. The ‘Caja Costarricense de Seguro Social’ is managed by the government and is available for local citizens and legal residents alike. This includes foreigners with a pension visa.

]]> Costa Rica Hospital Demographics 2016 – Room for growth in equipment penetration https://globalhealthintelligence.com/ghi-analysis/cost-rica-hospital-demographics-2016-room-growth-equipment-penetration/ Tue, 08 Nov 2016 01:55:41 +0000 https://globalhealthintelligence.com/?p=3112 Costa Rica is one of Central America’s most important hospital markets, with a total of 136 hospitals and an average of 25 beds per hospital.  However, penetration of capital equipment remains relatively low compared with regional standards.

  • Number of hospitals: 136
  • Number of hospital beds per hospital (average): 25
  • Operating rooms per hospital (average): 0.9

Penetration of:

Procedure types:

  • Ambulatory: 63%
  • Hospitalization: 37%

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]]> Costa Rica progressing to the leading position of innovation in life science industry in the Latin America https://globalhealthintelligence.com/news/costa-rica-progressing-leading-position-innovation-life-science-industry-latin-america/ Thu, 27 Oct 2016 03:00:17 +0000 https://globalhealthintelligence.com/?p=3038 The consolidated cluster of medical devices and the increasing research and development activities in Costa Rica are taking the country to a much better position in the life science industry in the Latin American region. The facts supporting this growth include, in 2015, Costa Rica exported medical devices worth USD 2.2 billion and in 2016 the export is projected to reach USD 2.5 billion. Presently, medical devices are the main industrial export product of the country, which ranks as the first exporter per capita in Latin America. Moreover, 6 of the 10 of the world’s largest cardiovascular devices companies have production facilities in Costa Rica. Jorge Sequeira, the Managing Director of the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE) stated at Life Sciences Forum that the event evidences the progress and good positioning of Costa Rica in the field of life sciences. Costa Rica has become the second largest medical devices exporter in Latin America. The future of the industry is convergence, everyone is innovating and Costa Rica can take advantage of this trend.

 

]]> Costa Rica to host largest Latin American Life Sciences industry event https://globalhealthintelligence.com/news/costa-rica-host-largest-latin-american-life-sciences-industry-event/ Tue, 27 Sep 2016 09:11:04 +0000 https://globalhealthintelligence.com/?p=2906 Costa Rica will host for the third time the largest Latin American life sciences field event -The Life Sciences Forum 2016 – organized by the Costa Rican Investment Promotion Agency (CINDE). In all, 350 international and national participants are expected to gather at the event to analyze key trends in the life sciences industry. Participants will also explore Costa Rica’s potential in the sector with the greatest strategic positioning in recent years, as it is the second largest medical device exporter in Latin America and has attracted 47 medical devices technology projects over a five-year period and ranks 7th globally in terms of the number of manufacturing projects, ahead of the Netherlands, Brazil and Mexico, over 2008-2012. The event will include presentations in areas such asdevice innovations, 3D printing and the future of medical manufacturing, innovative materials in medical devices, opportunities for clinical investigations in Latin America and the future of the life sciences sector presented by speakers and prestigious specialists from universities in Europe, the United States and representatives from the key companies of life sciences sector globally. With annual exports over USD 2 billion dollars, medical devices as the country’s main industrial export product and over 19,000 employees working for the sector, the goal of this event is to collaborate in the global market analysis of the medical industry and Costa Rica’s potential to play a key role in the industry.

 

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