Chinese Medical Records Translation
Chinese medical records translation to English for a doctor continuing your care in the US, a health or travel insurer paying for treatment in China, a personal injury or disability case, or a USCIS medical waiver. We translate the 门诊病历, the 住院病历, the 出院小结, the 诊断证明书 and the reports behind them.
- Up to 250 words per page
- $25 per page
- Standard turnaround
- From 24 hours
- Certificate of accuracy
- Signed & stamped
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Written for Chinese (Mandarin) Simplified medical records records
What is in a Chinese hospital file
Chinese records mix Western medicine, 中医 and a shorthand of their own, and the paper that matters most for a claim is often the smallest one.
The 诊断证明书
A diagnosis certificate is a single stamped sheet from the treating department that states the diagnosis, the recommended rest or treatment and the doctor's name, sealed with the hospital's 诊断证明专用章. It is the paper a Chinese employer, insurer or court accepts, and a US insurer or a lawyer handling an injury that happened in China will want it too. The 出院小结 gives the stay in full: 入院诊断, 出院诊断, the 诊疗经过 course of treatment and the 出院医嘱 instructions. We translate both with the seal and the department named.
Abbreviations and units
Chinese doctors write prescriptions in a Latin shorthand that is not quite the US one: ivgtt for an intravenous drip, po, bid, tid, qd, prn and 1# for one tablet. Lab reports give glucose and cholesterol in mmol/L and flag results with ↑ and ↓ against a 参考范围. The translation writes the shorthand out and keeps the units and reference ranges as printed, since converting mmol/L to mg/dL is a clinical decision rather than a translation one. Drug names come over as the English generic, 阿莫西林 as amoxicillin and 头孢 as the specific cephalosporin named.
中医 entries
Most hospitals in China have a 中医科, and many records carry a 中医 diagnosis next to the Western one, 气虚, 湿热 or 肝郁, followed by a 方剂 of herbs with doses in 克 to be 水煎服. These terms have no clinical equivalent in English. We give the accepted English term, qi deficiency or damp-heat, keep the Chinese, and list each herb by its pharmacopoeia name and dose, so a US clinician sees what was taken alongside the Western prescription. 中成药 patent medicines such as 连花清瘟 are named as such.
Who is asking for your Chinese (Mandarin) Simplified medical records translation?
The translation is the same. What changes is whether the recipient wants anything added to it.
Doctors and hospitals
A new physician needs your diagnoses, medications and reports in English before the first visit. Each report is translated in full and certified, so it can go into your chart as it is.
Insurers
Health, travel and disability insurers ask for the medical report and the itemized bill in English, translated completely and certified, before they pay a claim for care received abroad.
ECFMG
ECFMG accepts a word-for-word translation on a translation service's letterhead, signed by the translator with a certification statement. Summaries and extracts are refused. Our certified translations follow that format.
Before you upload
Three things that save a day of back and forth on a Chinese (Mandarin) Simplified medical records.
Send the pages a doctor would read
The discharge letter, the current medication list and the reports it relies on cover most visits. A full hospital file can run to hundreds of pages, so start with those and add the rest if the recipient asks.
Letterhead, stamps and signatures count
The hospital header, the doctor's stamp and the registration number on a prescription identify who wrote the record. Scan each page whole, including forms and the back of any page with a stamp.
Tell us who will read it
A physician needs the clinical pages, an insurer the diagnosis and the itemized bill, ECFMG a word-for-word translation of the entire document. Say which in the order notes, with the patient's name as the passport spells it.
Details and pricing
What is included in a Chinese (Mandarin) Simplified medical records translation
One price per page covers the translation and its certification. A page is up to 250 words, and the quote tells you the page count before you pay.
Everything on the medical records is translated, including stamps, seals and handwritten notes. Tell us the English spelling you use for each name when you order.
Certified Translation
Word-for-word translation with a certificate of accuracy for official use.
$25
USD / page
up to 250 words per page
Included
- Signed & stamped certification of translation accuracy
- Certified by a professional translator
- Digital delivery via PDF
- Review and approve final translation
- 100% Guaranteed Acceptance
- Standard turnaround starting at 24 hours
Optional services
- Expedited turnaround
- Priority handling when your deadline is shorter than the standard turnaround.
- By deadline
- Notarization
- A notary public signs and stamps the certification statement.
- $20 per order
- Physical copy
- A wet-ink original of your translation, mailed by express courier.
- $35 per order
- Apostille
- Authenticates the notary’s signature and seal for use in Hague Convention countries.
- $180 per document
What the certificate of accuracy states
Your translation arrives with a Certification of Translation Accuracy issued by ImmiTranslate. It is the page the receiving organization checks first.
- The translation is complete and accurate.
- The document title and the language pair.
- The translator is competent in both languages.
- A signature and the ImmiTranslate certification stamp.
- Our American Translators Association corporate membership.
Our translation process
Our goal is to make the translation process as simple as possible for you. Our service is streamlined specifically for documents of this nature.
Chinese (Mandarin) Simplified Medical Records FAQ
Most questions about pricing and turnaround can be answered faster by requesting a quote.
- Which Chinese documents does an insurer need for a claim?
- For a travel or health insurer paying for treatment in China: the 诊断证明书, the 出院小结 if you were admitted, the 费用清单 itemized bill and the 医疗收费票据 receipts, which carry a 财政监制 code and the hospital seal. Insurers match the receipt numbers to the itemized list, so we translate the bills line by line rather than summarizing them. Send the receipts in the order they were issued.
- How do I get my records from a Chinese hospital?
- Ask the hospital's 病案室 for a 病历复印, a photocopy of the inpatient file stamped on each page with the 病历复印专用章. Outpatient visits are written in the patient's own 病历本 booklet, which you keep, and test results print from the hospital's self-service machines. Photograph each page flat and in order. Doctors' handwriting in a 病历本 is often hard to read, so a sharp photo of each page saves a round of questions.
- My mother is being treated in China. Can you put her US records into Chinese?
- Yes. Families send US records to a hospital in China for a second opinion or continuing treatment, to a Chinese commercial insurer for reimbursement, or to a 公证处 for a 病情公证 that supports a visa application. The translation uses mainland clinical terms and keeps US brand names next to the generic, since a Chinese doctor knows 对乙酰氨基酚 and not Tylenol. We can notarize the translation if the receiving office asks for that.
- How much does a certified translation cost?
- Certified translation is $25 per page, with a page counted as up to 250 words. Notarization, a mailed physical copy and an apostille are optional and priced separately.
- How long does a certified translation take?
- Standard turnaround starts at 24 hours and depends on the length and language of your documents. If you have a deadline, include it in your quote request.
Other Chinese (Mandarin) Simplified documents we translate
Medical records translation in other languages
Each of these pages is written for that language's medical records records.
Sending it with an application? Read the Insurance claim translations, USCIS translation requirements before you order.