The St. George Hospital building on Rosenheimer Strasse in Bad Aibling

Transparency in Medicine

Why travel to Germany for treatment

What the German system lets a licensed hospital do for a patient with a complex chronic disease, which programs international patients come for, and how the trip to Bad Aibling runs.

Why here

What a German physician is allowed to do for you

Patients cross an ocean for the system the physicians work in. German law lets a licensed hospital combine conventional medicine with therapies that are rarely offered as inpatient procedures elsewhere, under the same medical law that governs everything else it does. German medical schools teach natural medicine (Naturheilkunde) as part of the standard curriculum.

Whole-body hyperthermia room with four beds under infrared canopies
Whole-body hyperthermia room · St. George Hospital
Three practical reasons

Why the treatment exists here and may not at home

The legal room to treat

German medical law lets a licensed physician use a therapy outside its approved indication as an individual treatment attempt, decided with the patient after medical consultation and with written consent, when the findings and the patient's situation justify it.

Therapies run as hospital procedures

Whole-body hyperthermia, H.E.L.P. apheresis, immunoadsorption, multimodal inpatient Lyme programs and photodynamic therapy are carried out here on a ward with physicians and nurses present. In many countries they are not offered as inpatient hospital procedures at all.

One hospital, one chart

Diagnostics, hyperthermia, apheresis, infusions and ward care are in the same building, so the work-up on your first morning and the therapy on your fourth day are read by the same physician from the same chart.

What international patients come here for

  • Treatment program for international patientsChronic Lyme disease

    Inpatient, 2 to 5 weeks; treated here since 1995, more than 12,000 patients.

  • Treatment program for international patientsLong COVID and ME/CFS

    2 to 3 weeks; H.E.L.P. apheresis or immunoadsorption decided from the findings.

  • Treatment program for international patientsIntegrative oncology

    2 to 4 weeks, added to surgery, chemotherapy or radiotherapy, never in their place.

  • Treatment program for international patientsWhole-body hyperthermia

    On a hospital ward; more than 30,000 sessions in oncology and chronic infections.

What it costs

An itemized cost overview before you book anything

Treatment is self-pay: a package price plus the add-ons your plan needs, set out in EUR after the medical review and the video call. A deposit is paid before admission, and airport transfers are charged extra. Reimbursement is never promised. Costs and insurance

Getting here

Munich Airport, then an hour by road or rail

From Munich Airport, the road runs south-east on the A8 toward Salzburg, with the Alps ahead for most of the hour. Bad Aibling is a spa town in Upper Bavaria, between Munich and the Alps.

  • Munich Airport (MUC), an international hub
  • About 60 minutes by car from the airport; the International Office can arrange a transfer, charged extra
  • Regional trains from Munich to Bad Aibling
  • English spoken on the ward and in the International Office
  • Hotels and guesthouses nearby for a companion; the International Office helps book them
Bad Aibling seen from the north, with the Mangfall mountains behind
Bad Aibling and the Mangfall mountains · Flodur63 / Wikimedia Commons, CC BY-SA 4.0
In their words

Three patients who made the trip

“Your clinic gave me my life back. I went from not being able to walk up the stairs to returning to a full, active, vibrant life.”

International Patient, USA

Lyme Disease (9 Years Post-Treatment)

“I came with an inoperable Chondrosarcoma classed as terminal in 1998. I was 28 years old. I am now 55 with 4 beautiful children.”

International Patient, USA

Integrative Cancer Treatment

“Our son is back to full health, doing all the sport he loves, back to full time schooling. Thank you for helping our boy get his life back.”

International Patient’s Parent, Ireland

Post-COVID Recovery

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