Unimed Health System

What Unimed Health System does

Unimed Health System is a privately held, for-profit healthcare provider headquartered in San José, Costa Rica. Founded in 2007, the company operates a small clinical practice (11-50 employees) delivering four core service lines: urgent care, telemedicine, laboratory testing, and travel medicine, with the travel-medicine offering oriented toward international travelers. This positioning implies a dual-customer profile mixing local residents (urgent care, lab tests) with foreign visitors and corporate travel programs (travel medicine, telemedicine consults).

The underlying product surface spans in-person clinic services and a telemedicine channel, though no technical detail on the telemedicine platform, electronic medical record system, or any proprietary technology is available in the input data — the company's own website (unimedhs.com) returned only a verification checkpoint and provided no scraped content. Similarly, no specific products, product features, integrations, certifications, or compliance attestations are documented in the source material.

The business model is services-based: revenue is generated per visit or per consultation across urgent care, lab tests, and telemedicine, supplemented by travel-medicine packages (vaccinations, certificates, pre-travel consultations) typically purchased by individual travelers or arranged through corporate or institutional channels. No pricing model, contract structure, payor mix, GTM motion, or revenue mechanics are disclosed. Public-firmographic gaps (no disclosed revenue, no funding rounds, no management team, no customer logos, no partnerships) materially constrain any deeper commercial inference about the business.

Name

Unimed Health System

Website

https://unimedhs.com

Company type

Private

Founded year

2007

Headcount range

11–50 employees

Short description

Unimed Health System is a Costa Rica-based private healthcare provider founded in 2007, offering urgent care, telemedicine, lab tests, and travel medicine services primarily to international travelers in San José.

Ownership category

akta.pro rank

Product category

Travel Medicine & Urgent Care Services

NAICS

Outpatient Care Centers (6214), Offices of Physicians (except Mental Health Specialists) (621111), Other Ambulatory Health Care Services (6219)

SIC

Services-Offices & Clinics Of Doctors Of Medicine (8011), Services-Specialty Outpatient Facilities, Nec (8093)

akta.pro primary industry

International/Medical Tourism Hospital Systems (HLAFAAAN)

akta.pro secondary industries

Primary Care & General Medicine Virtual Care (HLALAAAA), Hospital-at-Home & Acute Virtual Care Platforms (HLALABAC)

Keywords

• Urgent care services
• Telemedicine consultations
• Travel medicine
• Clinical lab testing
• International traveler healthcare

Headquarters

HQ city

San José

HQ country

Costa Rica

HQ region

Latin America

Markets served

GTM type

B2C

Offering type

Services

Cost components

Personnel, Operations, Infrastructure, Supply Chain, Marketing or Sales

Core offering

Unimed Health System delivers outpatient medical services in San José, Costa Rica, including urgent care for acute conditions, telemedicine consultations, clinical laboratory testing, and travel medicine services targeted at international travelers visiting or transiting Costa Rica. The firm operates as a single-site provider combining in-person acute care with remote consultations and diagnostics.

Differentiator

Problem solved

Functional benefit

Products and services

• Urgent Care Walk-in and same-day outpatient treatment for acute, non-emergency illnesses and injuries, delivered to international travelers and local patients at the firm's San José clinic.
• Telemedicine Remote clinical consultations that allow patients, including international travelers, to receive medical advice, triage, and follow-up without an in-person visit.
• Laboratory Tests On-site clinical laboratory diagnostics for patients and travelers, supporting routine screening, travel-related testing, and workup of acute conditions seen in urgent care.
• Travel Medicine Pre-travel and post-travel medical care for international travelers, including travel-related vaccinations, fit-to-fly assessments, and post-travel screening or treatment.

Ideal customer profiles1 record

Technology focussed No

API detail

Has API

No

API docs

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Broad incumbents

• Bumrungrad International Hospital: Asia's largest medical tourism hospital, serving over a million international patients annually. Competes for the same cross-border medical tourism demand and offers a broader specialty and accreditation footprint than Unimed.
• Teladoc Health: Largest global virtual care platform offering general medical, specialty, and multilingual telehealth. Represents the broad incumbent competing with Unimed's telemedicine arm for cross-border consumer virtual visits.
• Cleveland Clinic: US-based academic medical system with a dedicated global patient services program and Cleveland Clinic Latin America presence. Represents the upper-tier competition for international patients seeking premium care.

Direct peers

• International Medical Group (IMG): Travel medical insurance and assistance provider offering telemedicine and international provider networks to travelers. Comparable given overlapping traveler-health and cross-border virtual care focus.
• International SOS: Global medical assistance and travel medicine provider offering pre-trip advice, telemedicine, and in-country care for travelers and expatriates. Highly comparable given Unimed's combined travel medicine, urgent care, and telehealth bundle.
• Global Rescue: Travel risk and medical assistance company providing traveler health services including telemedicine, evacuation, and in-country referrals. Closely comparable to Unimed's traveler health and telemedicine offering.
• Hospital CIMA San José: Costa Rica hospital operated by International Hospital Corporation with established medical tourism programs serving US and Canadian patients. Comparable as a private Costa Rica provider competing for the same international patient pool.
• Clínica Bíblica Hospital: San José, Costa Rica-based private hospital that explicitly serves international patients and medical tourists with multilingual services. Most direct comparable given shared geography, traveler focus, and private ambulatory service mix.
• Hospital Hotel La Católica: Costa Rica hospital combining clinical care with hospitality services aimed at medical tourists. Comparable business model that bundles accommodation and medical services for international travelers.
• Passport Health: Largest North American travel medicine clinic network providing pre-travel consultations, vaccinations, and travel health products. Closely comparable given Unimed's explicit travel medicine service line.

Market position

Strengths4 records

Weaknesses4 records

Competitive moat2 records

Key risks5 records

Key highlights5 records

Customer concentration

• Facebookfacebook.com/unimedhealth
• LinkedInlinkedin.com/company/unimedurgentcare

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Funding overview

Funding rounds

Investors

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M&A

Investments

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