How we verify providers

✓ Verified by &NewMe on a surgeon’s card means we found public, official records for two things, and saved the link to each one:

• The hospital holds the Turkish Ministry of Health’s international health tourism authorisation, or is listed on HealthTürkiye, the Ministry’s health tourism portal.
• The named surgeon’s specialty - for example general surgery for weight-loss surgery - is confirmed on an official profile: the hospital’s own doctor page, a university profile or a medical society list.

Tap the badge on any card to see exactly what we checked and when. Each surgeon’s profile lists every check with a link, so you can open the same record yourself.

• Ministry of Health authorisation for international patients, in the Ministry of Health, Health Tourism Department: authorised facilities records or on the hospital’s own certificate page.
• HealthTürkiye listing in the HealthTürkiye health facilities list.
• Accreditation, when the hospital has it: JCI (JCI: find accredited international organizations) and TÜSKA, Türkiye’s health care accreditation institute. JCI is voluntary: a hospital without it can still be verified.

We record the certificate number where it is published, the link and the date we checked.

• Specialty and title on an official profile (hospital, university or medical society). A surgeon’s own website or social media alone is not enough for the badge.
• Where they practise: the hospital profile that lists them.
• Society memberships only where the society publishes a list we can link to. The HealthTürkiye health professionals directory is checked too.

If a record cannot be found or the page does not load, we leave the check out and the badge waits until we can confirm it.

Some providers on &NewMe are agencies or clinics that arrange your treatment. For them we will check the international health tourism authorisation certificate in the HealthTürkiye agency list and the travel agency licence in the TÜRSAB agency search. These checks are not shown as badges yet.

We are starting with weight-loss (gastric sleeve) surgeons and will add other treatments step by step. No badge on a card does not mean a provider failed a check - it may simply not have been reviewed yet.

We check at listing and when details change, for example when a surgeon moves hospital. Every badge shows the date of the last check (“Last checked”), so you can see how recent it is.

The default order is &NewMe choice (our editorial selection), then Google rating and review count. Commission does not affect ranking, and any paid placement is labelled Sponsored. Read the full rules in how we rank providers.

You can repeat every check without us. Our verification checklist shows how to look up a hospital, a surgeon and an agency in the official lists, what a written quote should include and the red flags to watch for.