Currency, conversion and what you actually pay

A Turkish clinic will happily quote a British reader in pounds or an American in dollars. The invoice frequently arrives in euros or lira, and the conversion then happens at your bank's rate on the settlement date.

A figure agreed in March can settle differently in June. Ask which currency the invoice will be in, in writing, and treat the quoted figure in your own currency as indicative until you have that answer.

Our corpus contains explicit currency-qualified cost queries in six currencies, all attached to Turkey: pounds, US dollars, Australian dollars, Canadian dollars, New Zealand dollars and rupees.

That pattern tells you something about the market. Readers are not asking what a transplant costs in the abstract, they are asking what it costs in the money they hold, which is a sign of a purchase being budgeted rather than browsed.

Every figure in our pricing configuration is stored in US dollars. Where a page shows another currency it is converted at indicative rates and rounded, and it says so.

Where we hold no rate for a currency, the page prints US dollars and states that rather than inventing a conversion. A converted figure with no rate behind it is a made-up number, and printing one would undermine every other figure on the site.

Confirm the invoice currency in writing. Pay on a card with no foreign transaction fee, which on a four figure procedure is worth more than most negotiating. Expect a deposit of a few hundred to hold a date, and treat a demand for the full amount before arrival as a reason to ask why.

Budget the conversion uncertainty rather than the quoted figure, and price the flights separately since they move more than the exchange rate does.