About
A coordination company, registered in Shanghai, built to be checked.
LukeBridge exists because families are already crossing the distance between what treatment costs at home and what it costs in Shanghai — often without a written clinical answer, a fixed fee, or anyone accountable for the handover back.
Why this exists
The market moved before the information did.
New Zealand has no publicly funded CAR-T pathway. Australia and the United Kingdom fund it for eligible patients; the United States depends on insurance; several Canadian provinces fund it for eligible patients under strict criteria, with coverage and wait times that vary by province. A Chinese hospital pathway can be a fraction of the private price — and it comes with different eligibility rules, different products, different risks, and a long trip.
What families lack is not enthusiasm. It is a written answer before they commit, a fee that is not a percentage of the treatment, and someone accountable for the handover home. That is the product.
LukeBridge (Shanghai) is registered in Shanghai for a reason: the work happens where the hospitals are. What we will not do is pretend that living in Shanghai makes us a medical provider. It does not. We are the administrative layer around a hospital decision you make with your own doctors.
We are deliberately small. One coordinator, one records screener, one engineer measuring the funnel. Three people can be honest; a sales floor cannot.
Principles
Six rules we wrote down before launch.
Patient pays, hospital treats
You pay the hospital for medicine and care, directly. You pay us a published fee for coordination. The two invoices never touch, and we take no percentage of either.
We do not practise medicine
Coordination is our whole product. We do not diagnose, interpret scans, prescribe, or advise on which product to choose. Those are the treating physicians' decisions, signed in their records.
Every clinical statement is the hospital's
Our written review is an administrative records review against published hospital criteria. The clinical opinion is issued and signed by the hospital's physicians, in writing, for your case.
We publish the number that decides
This service is an experiment with a stated test: will patients pay for coordination when going direct is possible? The dashboard behind this site tracks that, and we will not pretend the answer is yes before it is.
Say no early
A pre-screen that cannot say no is a sales funnel. We decline cases that have no pathway, and we refund the review fee when a hospital declines.
Research is not a product
Clinical research in China is free to participants under the 818 rules. We do not sell, reserve, or broker research places, and we will decline a coordination fee that is really a price of admission.
No dark patterns in a bad year
No urgency countdowns, no invented scarcity, no testimonial we cannot document, no outcome claim dressed up as a statistic.
Team
Who does what
- CoordinationName not yet published
- A bilingual case manager in Shanghai runs hospital liaison, scheduling, interpreting, and the payment route. One named person per case, reachable in your timezone.
- Records screeningName not yet published
- A records reviewer — not a physician — checks that your file is complete and formatted to hospital intake standards, and compares it with each hospital's published criteria. They do not diagnose, interpret results, decide eligibility, or give a second opinion. The hospital decides, in writing.
- MeasurementName not yet published
- An engineer maintains the funnel, the cohort tables, and this website. No patient data leaves the systems described in the privacy notice.
Screener particulars
Screener particulars not yet published. Our records screener is not a physician and does not hold a licence to practise medicine in your country. Their qualification (if any) and the country in which it was obtained will be published here before we accept a paid engagement; the same details are in your service agreement.
We do not employ physicians to treat you, so there are no clinician profiles to publish: the hospital’s physicians are named in their own records. The coordinator, records reviewer, and engineer above are the people behind the service; their names are also in your service agreement before you pay. Any clinical qualification held by the records screener is published above, together with the country in which it was obtained. We do not represent that any member of staff is licensed to practise medicine in Australia, Canada, New Zealand, the UK, or the US.
Governance
How the incentives are held
- No hospital commission. If a hospital offers a per-patient payment, we decline it in writing and tell the patient it was offered.
- No markup on medical costs. Hospital invoices are passed through unaltered; we do not earn on the treatment price.
- Clinical questions go to the hospital. If a case sits outside standard therapy, we route it to the hospital’s multidisciplinary review — we do not advise on it.
- Complaints go to a named person. A written complaint is acknowledged within five business days; escalation details are in the terms.
Fees: pre-screen free, written review US$350, coordination US$15,000–US$30,000.
Registered operator
A company you can check, not an inbox.
PRC e-commerce law, the UK Consumer Contracts Regulations, and Australian and New Zealand consumer law all require a trader to identify itself before it takes money. These are our particulars. They are repeated in the footer of every page and in the terms.
- Registered name(企业名称)
- LukeBridge (Shanghai)
- Unified Social Credit Code(统一社会信用代码)
- Not yet published
- Registered address(注册地址)
- Shanghai, People's Republic of China — street address not yet published
- Telephone(联系电话)
- Not yet published
- Responsible person(负责人)
- Not yet published
Do not pay us until the missing details above are published. We are completing publication of our registered particulars. Before any payment, ask for our business licence, the signed service agreement and the hospital’s written estimate. You can also email care@lukebridge.com and we will send them.
UK GDPR Article 27 representative
Not yet published. If you are in the UK, email care@lukebridge.com before you send any health information, and we will confirm whether a representative is in place for your enquiry.
LukeBridge is not a medical provider. We coordinate records, hospital introductions, and in-country logistics. We do not diagnose, treat, prescribe, or supply medicines, and no doctor–patient relationship is created. Every clinical decision is made by the hospital’s physicians. Full compliance notice.