- Health Service Providers:
- For general public and private hospitals; specialty clinics, and medical offices:
- The Health Service Provider must be recognized and have national qualification from the Ministry of Health, and should be enrolled in their corresponding professional college.
- The Health Service Provider must have or be in process of attaining appropriate accreditation from an accrediting body recognized and acknowledged by the government of the United States, Canada, or a country of the European Union (e.g. JCI, AAAHC, AAAASF, etc).
- Additionally, specialty clinics and medical offices must have a current and acceptable support agreement for the tending of medical complications.
- For general public and private hospitals; specialty clinics, and medical offices:
- For businesses related to health and physical and mental wellbeing:
- Businesses have to comply with the standards and requirements established by the government of the United States, Canada, or a country of the European Union.
- For health professionals:
- Health professionals must have the appropriate medical or dental specialty.
- Health professionals must be enrolled in a professional re-certification system from the respective professional college.
- Health professionals must either operate within their own nationally and internationally recognized structure or have credentials from a nationally and internationally recognized hospital.
- Tourist Services Providers (individually or in partnership):
- Tourist Services Providers must have the tourism declaration from the Costa Rican Tourism Institute (ICT by its initials in Spanish).
- Tourist Services Providers have to have an emergency service available for the transfer of clients.
- Tourist Services Providers must be located within a thirty-minute distance from an appropriate medical facility to ensure prompt treatment of any post-operative complications.
- Academia (individually or in partnership):
- Academia must have an internationally acknowledged recognition by the government of the United States, Canada, or a country of the European Union, such as the Comparability Standards Compliance Certificate with medical schools in the United States.
- Goods and Services Providers:
- Goods and Services Providers must have all the operation permits required by law.
- Goods and Services Providers’ products or services must be registered appropriately.
- Goods and Services Providers’ products or services must have international official authorization or recognition.
