Altitude Sickness (AMS) Clinic, Oxygen & Pre-Trek Consults in Kathmandu

Who Is This Service For?

• Trekkers heading to Everest Base Camp (5,364m), Annapurna Circuit (5,416m), Manaslu, Langtang, or Gokyo wanting a personalized ascent & medication plan
• Travelers with pre-existing asthma, hypertension, diabetes, or prior AMS seeking a safe high-altitude clearance
• Trekkers who descended early or via helicopter evacuation needing lung/neuro evaluation, chest imaging referral, and insurance claim validation
• Climbers suffering from persistent high-altitude cough ("Khumbu cough"), headache, or fatigue after returning to Kathmandu

What Happens During Your Appointment?

Transparent Pricing & Turnaround Table

All fees are confirmed upfront before any laboratory test or infusion begins. Every visit includes an official stamped English ICD-10 medical report and itemized receipt for travel insurance reimbursement.

Before You Book — What to Have Ready

• Your passport — required for the medical report and any insurance documentation; a photo on your phone works for registration.
• Your insurance details — policy number and the insurer's 24/7 assistance line; if a GOP (guarantee of payment) is needed, it is arranged before or during the visit, not after.
• Your medication list — names, doses, and frequency of anything you take regularly, plus known allergies. Interactions are checked before anything is prescribed or administered.
• A rough timeline — when the problem started, what changed, and what you have already tried. A messy timeline told honestly beats a tidy one that skips the embarrassing parts.
• Your departure date — if you are flying, trekking, or leaving Kathmandu soon, say so at booking; it changes what gets prioritized and what gets deferred.

What This Service Does Not Include

• Hospital-level care — ICU, surgery, advanced imaging beyond our on-site capability, and overnight admission are referred to Kathmandu partner hospitals with your records transferred.
• Open-ended monitoring — if a condition needs serial checks over weeks, we set the follow-up schedule explicitly rather than leaving it vague.
• Guaranteed outcomes — we commit to the assessment, the honest answer, and the documented plan; no ethical clinic guarantees a result.
• After-hours emergency response — outside opening hours, Kathmandu emergency departments handle overnight crises; our WhatsApp line is checked at opening.

After Your Appointment — Records, Refills & Follow-Up

• You leave with documents. A stamped English ICD-10 medical report, itemized receipt, and any prescription with generic drug names — formatted for international insurers and home-country doctors.
• WhatsApp follow-up is included. A 7-day check-in window — if a symptom changes, worsens, or a question comes up, message +977-9747726036 rather than booking a second consult for something we can answer remotely.
• Refills and repeats. If a treatment course extends past your stay, we document the regimen in the report so a pharmacy or physician at your next destination can continue it — including the generic names that work across borders.
• Referral letters. If the visit revealed something that needs a specialist or a hospital, the referral letter and your records go with you — the receiving doctor reads our findings rather than starting from zero.

Cost Transparency — What the Fee Covers

The fee range for Altitude Sickness (AMS) is $40 – $85 USD (NPR 5,400 – 11,400), confirmed upfront before any test or procedure begins. That price covers the consultation itself, the documentation, and the follow-up window — laboratory tests, medications, and consumables are itemized separately so you see exactly what you are paying for. There are no surprise line items on a Thamel Clinic receipt.

Payment, Insurance & the Real Total Cost

Most Altitude Sickness (AMS) visits stay inside the quoted $40 – $85 USD range; what pushes a bill higher is add-on diagnostics or a treatment course — never hidden fees. Payment is cash, Visa/Mastercard/Amex, eSewa, or Fonepay, and insured travelers with pre-authorized coverage can often use direct insurer billing (GOP) instead of paying out-of-pocket.

Value context: the same Altitude Sickness (AMS) visit in a Western urgent-care system typically runs 3–8× the Kathmandu price, and every visit ends with the stamped ICD-10 report insurers require — documentation most international clinics charge extra for.

Currency & cash flow: the bill is issued in NPR with the USD equivalent printed on the receipt, so a reimbursement claim never argues the exchange rate. If paying out-of-pocket, card settlement lands at your bank's rate (~NPR 133 per USD); if using GOP, the guarantee covers the approved line items and any non-covered extras are quoted before they are added — the bill is never padded while you wait.

Frequently Asked Questions: Altitude Sickness (AMS)