Medical Translation Services
A medical document is translated for a reader who will act on it: an insurer assessing a claim, a court weighing evidence, or a physician continuing care. We translate the record in full with clinical terminology, keep the structure, and certify it on request, from $54 per document.
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Certified Translations
For USCIS, US courts, WES, ECFMG and CGFNS.
Quote Response
Same-day certified PDF delivery available for most documents ordered before 4pm ET.
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Prepared For Submissions To US Agencies & Credential Services
*Authority names are referenced as industry benchmarks of compliance. All official translation orders are processed directly through DHCTranslations.
What a Medical Document Needs From a Translation
Clinical writing is compressed and full of local shorthand. The translation has to open that shorthand out for a reader who was not there, without adding a diagnosis the record does not contain.
What the Translation Covers
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Clinical Terminology: Diagnoses, procedures, drugs and units are rendered in the terminology a US clinician expects to read, with the original term kept where a local name has no equivalent.
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Structure and Dates: Admission and discharge dates, chronology and headings stay in the order recorded, because a sequence of events is often the point of the document.
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No Clinical Additions: We translate what is written and flag what is illegible. The translator does not resolve an ambiguous finding or fill in a missing value.
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Handwriting and Stamps: Margin notes, signatures and hospital stamps are described in place, so a reviewer can see the record was complete rather than cropped.
Before You Order
Medical orders go wrong when the translation is requested for one purpose and delivered for another, so the purpose is the first question.
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Who Is Reading It: An insurer, a court and a treating physician need different framing, and the certification follows whichever it is.
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The Complete Record: Every page and the reverse, including the pages of results that look routine, since a missing page reads as an omission.
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Patient Data Handling: Records are treated as confidential from the first email, held for a maximum of 90 days, and never reused in another project.
Tell us if a record is an extract rather than a complete file, so the translation says so.
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How a Medical Translation Runs
The linguist reads the whole record before quoting, because a set of results and a narrative discharge summary are different jobs at the same page count.
Send the Record
Photograph or scan every page, including results tables and the reverse sides, and name the body receiving it.
- All pages, including tables
- The insurer, court or physician
- Any deadline attached to the claim
Approve the Quote & Pay Securely
Review a fixed, itemized quote and pay through the encrypted gateway.
- Major credit/debit cards accepted worldwide
- Secure global payment gateway integration
- Instant invoice and receipt generation
Receive the Translation
The record comes back as a PDF mirroring the original page order, with any illegible passage flagged rather than guessed.
- Full translation in page order
- Signed statement where required
- Notes on illegible or ambiguous text
Documents That Arrive With a Medical File
ECFMG
Physician qualifications translated for ECFMG and residency files.
CGFNS
Nursing credentials translated for licensure and verification.
Document Translations
Civil records and certificates filed alongside a claim.
Legal Translations
Medical evidence translated where a case depends on it.
Can't find your specific document type?
We translate document types that are not listed here. Send us the document and we will confirm the price before you order: [email protected].
Most frequently requested languages we translate
These are the languages our clients ask for most often, but they are only a fraction of what we cover. We translate 200+ language pairs, so if yours is not listed, just ask.
What our clients say
Rated 4.9/5 from 314 verified reviews for USCIS submissions, court filings and credential evaluations.
“The criminal-record extract showed the issue date and the period covered clearly, which is what the licensing team asked to see.”
Artūrs B.
“The marksheet printed my mother's clan after my given name, and the note explained it once so the university stopped asking about a surname.”
Banri L.
“Very professional service. This company quoted me a much more reasonable price for my Polish - English legal document. Very pleased with the quality.”
Ilona Dul
Frequently asked questions
DHCTranslations translates hospital records, clinical reports and medical evidence for US insurers, courts and clinicians from our New York base. Send the complete record and the name of the body receiving it, and the quote follows before any work starts.
From $54 per document at DHCTranslations, then $0.12 per word into English and $0.14 per word from English into another language after 400 words. Hospital files are usually long, so most medical orders sit on the per-word rate rather than the floor, and the quote states the word count.
A short clinic letter is normally emailed by DHCTranslations the same business day when it is confirmed before 4pm ET. A forty-page hospital file takes two to three business days. Where an insurer or a court has set a deadline, tell us and we will confirm what is achievable before you pay.
A linguist who works on medical documents as a matter of routine rather than a general translator with a dictionary, and a second reader checks the terminology before the certificate is signed. That second reading is what keeps a drug name or a unit intact.
No. Where the record is ambiguous or a value is missing, the translation reproduces what is written and marks the gap. A translator who supplies a missing finding is giving a clinical opinion, which is not the service you are buying.
Usually, and where a word cannot be read the translation says so in a bracketed note rather than choosing the most likely reading. A reviewer who knows the case can then confirm it, which is quicker than a corrected translation later.
Yes, including protocols, patient information and adverse event reports, though a trial file usually needs a glossary agreed before the first document. That is one conversation at the start and it prevents a set of documents describing the same term four ways.
They arrive through a secure upload, are opened only by the linguist and the reviewer, and are held for a maximum of 90 days before deletion. Nothing is reused in another project, and an NDA is signed where a hospital or insurer requires one.
Often yes, and the insurer sets the form. A certified translation with a signed statement is the usual requirement, and where an insurer asks for specific wording we use theirs rather than ours. Tell us who is reading it and we will prepare accordingly.
Yes. Laboratory reports, pathology results and veterinary files are handled by the same medical linguists, since the terminology and the format are close relatives of a hospital record and the same care applies.
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