A full body checkup in Taiwan is sold as a fixed-price package, not billed test by test. New Dawn Health's seven screening packages run from $299 to $3,499 in US dollars for the tests listed, booked in Taipei. Every figure on this page is the live price on our packages page, read on 2026-09-08; a written quotation controls if it differs.
How much does a full body checkup cost in Taiwan?
The packages fall into two families. A Holistic Exam is clinic-led: physician examination, blood and urine analysis, ECG, hearing and eye exams, chest X-ray, then ultrasounds and CT as the tier rises. A Full-Body Scan is imaging-led: a whole-body MRI without contrast plus a low-dose lung CT, with clinical tests added as the tier rises.
| Package |
Line |
Price (USD) |
Time at clinic |
What the step up buys |
| Convenient |
Holistic Exams |
$299 |
1.5 hours |
The baseline clinical check-up and an abdominal ultrasound. No CT, no MRI. Wednesdays and Thursdays only. |
| Essential |
Holistic Exams |
$699 |
3.5 hours |
Adds five ultrasounds, a 43-marker blood panel, vitamin D, bone mineral density and cardiovascular risk tests. Still no CT or MRI. |
| Light |
Full-Body Scans |
$1,399 |
2 hours |
The entry point for imaging: full-body MRI, low-dose lung CT, thyroid and abdomen ultrasound, doctor's debrief. |
| Premium |
Holistic Exams |
$1,699 |
5 hours |
Adds low-dose lung CT and a heart calcium score to the clinical check-up and five ultrasounds. No MRI. |
| Complete |
Full-Body Scans |
$1,699 |
2.5 hours |
Light plus DEXA body composition and bone density, and a heart calcium score CT. |
| Plus |
Full-Body Scans |
$3,099 |
3.5 hours |
Complete plus brain MR angiogram, coronary CT angiogram and carotid ultrasound. |
| Advanced |
Holistic Exams |
$3,499 |
6 hours |
The only package carrying both the full clinical panel and the full-body MRI, with lung CT, calcium score and five ultrasounds. |
What do you actually get for the price?
On the Full-Body Scan side, the MRI covers head, neck, abdomen (liver, gallbladder, pancreas, spleen, kidneys), pelvis (bladder, prostate, uterus, ovaries) and the whole spine. Arms and legs are excluded; a single-region MRI is a separate add-on. The scan runs without contrast, and the low-dose lung CT is there because MRI reads the chest poorly.
On the Holistic Exam side, blood analysis is a 43-marker panel including organ function and tumour markers from Essential upward, and the eye exam includes glaucoma screening and optical coherence tomography. The five ultrasounds are thyroid, carotid arteries, abdomen, and ovaries and uterus or prostate.
One choice catches people out. At $1,699 you can buy either Premium or Complete. Premium is the clinic check-up with lung CT and calcium score and no MRI; Complete is the MRI with DEXA and calcium score and no physician panel. Same price, different product. If you want both in one visit, Advanced at $3,499 is the tier that carries them.
What does the same screening cost in the United States?
There is no single US number, because the American market sells the clinical physical and the whole-body MRI as separate products priced by facility. Two sourced comparisons hold up.
Direct-to-consumer MRI. Prenuvo lists its Whole Body Scan at up to $2,499, and its Executive membership at up to $4,999 in New York City. Ezra's top MRI plan is listed at up to $3,999. Those cover imaging only; a clinical panel is priced separately.
Hospital care. Since 1 January 2021 the Centers for Medicare & Medicaid Services has required every US hospital to publish a machine-readable file of all standard charges plus a consumer-friendly display of shoppable services, so the cash price for a named MRI or colonoscopy at a named hospital is on that hospital's own site. FAIR Health, an independent national nonprofit, publishes consumer estimates built from tens of billions of commercial and Medicare claim records, organised by geographic area. Check both against your own zip code rather than a national average.
Neither figure includes a flight, and a scan performed in the US stays inside your own care network, which matters if something needs following up.
Can you pay for a checkup with an HSA or FSA?
IRS Publication 502 (2025) states that you can include in medical expenses "the amount you pay for an annual physical examination and diagnostic tests by a physician" and that "you don't have to be ill at the time of the examination". It separately allows "the cost of an electronic body scan". Publication 969 (2025) defines a qualified medical expense for an HSA or a health FSA as an amount paid for medical care as defined in Code section 213(d) — the same standard.
That is the general rule, not a ruling on your account. Publication 502 excludes what is "merely beneficial to general health", and eligibility for a specific overseas charge depends on your plan documents. Keep an itemised invoice naming each test, and confirm with your plan administrator or a tax adviser before you pay. New Dawn does not bill US insurers.
What does Taiwan already screen for free?
The Health Promotion Administration subsidises five cancer screenings, and reports that more than 20,000 people a year die of those five cancers: mammography every two years for women aged 40 to 74; cervical smear every three years from 25 and yearly from 30; faecal occult blood test every two years from 45 to under 75; oral mucosa examination every two years for betel-nut chewers and smokers aged 30 and over; and low-dose lung CT every two years for heavy smokers aged 50 to 74, and for people with a first-degree family history of lung cancer aged 45 to 74 for men and 40 to 74 for women.
Those subsidies are for people inside Taiwan's system, not short-stay visitors. What a paid package buys is the imaging the subsidy does not cover — MRI, the ultrasound panel, calcium score — completed in a single visit with a same-visit debrief.
Is a whole-body scan worth it?
The American College of Radiology states that the evidence is insufficient to recommend total-body MRI screening for asymptomatic people without risk factors, symptoms or family history, and that no life-prolonging or cost-effectiveness benefit has been established for that general population. Broad imaging finds incidental abnormalities, and those lead to repeat tests, procedures, anxiety and cost.
A whole-body MRI also does not replace mammography, cervical screening, faecal occult blood testing or colonoscopy where those are indicated, or eligibility-based low-dose lung CT. "Full body" is a marketing label, not a standardised protocol — ours excludes arms and legs and runs without contrast, and any competing product should be compared region by region before it is compared on price.
What should you confirm before booking?
- Which regions, sequences and modalities are in the package price, and which are paid add-ons.
- MRI safety: implants by exact manufacturer and model, retained metal, claustrophobia, pregnancy or possible pregnancy, kidney disease and prior contrast reactions.
- Report language, DICOM file delivery, turnaround time and who explains the results.
- Deposit, cancellation and refund terms, and any pathology or follow-up billed after the visit.
- What happens after a normal, indeterminate or abnormal result, and who arranges the next step.
Do not stop or change any medicine because of this article. Follow the written instructions of your treating clinician and the examining facility.
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