ItalyCare — World-Class Medical Care in Tuscany

How it works

A clear path, managed for you — start to finish

You never navigate a foreign healthcare system alone. ItalyCare manages every step, under the clinical supervision of an experienced Italian university physician. And in Tuscany, if you choose it, a dedicated concierge stays with you through every phase — from the moment you land to the day you fly home.

Visit in the U.S.

You see a U.S.-licensed physician — your own doctor or one from our network — and gather your records, tests and imaging.

Case review in Italy

Our clinical director reviews your complete file with the clinic in Tuscany and defines your personalized care plan.

A clear quote

Medical care at the facility's own price, with no mark-up. The services — flight, stay, support — you choose one by one, and that price is firm. All in writing, no surprises.

Treatment in Tuscany

You are welcomed in person, treated in an accredited private clinic, and followed daily by your ItalyCare coordinator.

Recovery & return

Convalescence in Tuscany, then home with a full English medical report for your U.S. physician — plus remote follow-up.

Your concierge

One person, always the same one, with you from arrival to departure: transfers, appointments, an interpreter at your visits, restaurants and rest. How much they do is up to you — right up to being reachable twenty-four hours a day.

Why Italy

Among the world's finest medicine. The most advanced technology.

Italy's healthcare system is consistently ranked among the very best in the world, and Tuscany is home to historic university medical schools that train some of Europe's finest physicians.

World-class doctors — university-trained specialists and surgeons, personally selected for each case by our clinical director.
Cutting-edge technology — including Da Vinci robotic surgery, advanced cardiac and arrhythmia centers, and laser and computer-guided procedures at selected private clinics in Tuscany.
Pain management for every patient — pain control is at the center of every care pathway, with dedicated pain-therapy specialists and protocols designed to avoid dependence-forming medications whenever clinically possible.
Modern accredited facilities — private clinics with ISO-certified quality systems and international patient services.

Treatments

Our areas of excellence

We focus on a select portfolio of specialties where Italian private healthcare offers outstanding quality — and where savings for American patients are most significant.

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Cardiology

Diagnostics, arrhythmia care and cardiac surgery in clinics with dedicated cardiology centers, supervised by our clinical director — a university cardiologist.

Save up to 50%+

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Orthopedics

Hip and knee replacement with rehabilitation programs that become a recovery stay in Tuscany, close to your family.

Save 40–60%

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Dental Care

Single implants to full-arch restorations (All-on-4), performed in a modern dental network with computer-guided implantology.

Save 50–70%

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Executive Check-up & Longevity

Complete diagnostic programs combined with thermal spas and wellness — the perfect introduction to healthcare, Tuscan style.

From $1,700

Dental Excellence · Tuscany

Your new smile, made in Tuscany — with Dental Clinique

For dental care, ItalyCare works with Dental Clinique — a family-owned Tuscan dental group, headquartered in the heart of Pisa with clinics across Tuscany: over 50 dentists and specialists, graduates of Italy's leading universities. Advanced technique, and a professionalism patients rate among the best.

Computer-guided implantology — your implant is planned digitally on a 3D CT scan (Dentalscan) before anyone touches your mouth: precise, predictable, minimally invasive.
Immediate-load implants & All-on-4 — in selected cases, fixed teeth in days, not months. A full-arch restoration costs 50–70% less than in the U.S.
Piezoelectric surgery & laser dentistry — gentler techniques, less swelling, faster recovery: ideal when your stay in Italy is measured in days.
Complete care under one roof — from invisible orthodontics to veneers and cosmetic dentistry, with the same team from first scan to final smile. And you choose your dentist: the specialists' faces and credentials are published for every clinic.
Your path — dental visit and X-rays in the U.S., case planned in Italy, treatment at whichever clinic in the group suits you best, while your family enjoys Tuscany.

4.9/5

patient rating, from over 400 reviews

50–70%

typical savings vs. U.S. prices

50+

dentists and specialists in the group

12h

open every day, Monday–Saturday

10+

clinics across Tuscany

Cost comparison

Superior quality. A very different bill.

Indicative prices in U.S. dollars, from published industry sources. Your ItalyCare quote is always in writing before you travel: medical care at the facility's own price, with no mark-up, plus the services you choose.

Procedure	Typical U.S. price	Italy (private care)
Single dental implant	≈ $4,800	$900 – $1,600
Full-arch All-on-4	$15,000 – $28,000	$8,100 – $12,400
Hip replacement	≈ $40,000	$16,000 – $32,000
Knee replacement	$35,000+	$14,000 – $28,500
Heart bypass surgery (CABG)	$35,600 – $84,000	$32,000 – $39,000
Executive check-up	$2,000 – $6,000	$1,700 – $2,400

Sources include Authority Dental (2025), GoodRx, Bookimed (2024–26), KFF and peer-reviewed cost studies. Figures are indicative ranges, not quotes; final pricing depends on your personal care plan.

The Tuscany experience

Your treatment. Their vacation. Everyone's Tuscany.

While you are in the clinic's care, ItalyCare takes care of the people who came with you.

Family Package — hotels, guided tours and experiences in Lucca, Pisa and Florence for your travel companions.
Thermal & wellness — Tuscany's historic spa towns, vineyards and countryside.
Recovery stays — where clinically appropriate, convalescence becomes a restorative stay in selected Tuscan retreats.
Always in English — interpreter at every medical appointment, English-speaking coordinator on call.

Why you can trust Italian care

Safety and protection, built into Italian law

Accredited private clinics

We work with a small number of selected, officially accredited private clinics across Tuscany — chosen and visited personally by our clinical director. We never operate from an anonymous catalog.

Mandatory malpractice insurance

Italian law (Gelli-Bianco, L. 24/2017) requires every clinic and physician to carry malpractice insurance — and since 2024, patients can claim directly against the insurer. These protections fully apply to international patients.

Physician-led, not sales-led

Every case is reviewed and supervised by our clinical director, a university cardiologist and surgeon. If a treatment isn't right for you, we tell you.

Total fee transparency

You always know what you pay, what the clinic charges, and how ItalyCare is compensated. Written, fixed quotes — before you commit to anything.

Comfort-first pain care

No one should endure avoidable pain. Dedicated pain-therapy centers follow every patient, with protocols that avoid opioids and dependence-forming medications whenever clinically possible.

Who we are

The people who answer for your care

ItalyCare rests on three people with a name and a record you can check: the one who runs it, the one who looks after you in the United States, and the one who decides, in Italy, whether and when you travel.

Bruno Farnesi

CEO & Founder — California

International medical-sector entrepreneur, born in Pisa and living in California. Bruno runs the company and personally follows the relationship with every patient and their family, from first contact to the return home. He is what holds the two shores of this project together: he knows Tuscany because he was born there, and he knows America because he lives and works there.

Julia Isen, MSN, FNP-C

President — San Francisco, California

Julia is a board-certified Family Nurse Practitioner and President of ItalyCare, with over twenty-five years of experience in primary care, internal medicine and women's health, and sixteen years as co-owner of her own clinical practice. She has taught in UCSF's Adult-Gerontology and Family Nurse Practitioner programs since 1998 — one of the leading nursing schools in the United States — supervising nurse practitioner students in its internal medicine and women's health clinics. Before that she worked at the Veterans Administration Medical Center and San Francisco General Hospital, and at Walter Reed Medical Center during her years in Washington DC. She holds a Bachelor of Science in Nursing and Biology from Northeastern University and a Master of Science in Nursing from the University of San Francisco, summa cum laude. She holds active licenses in California and Florida and brings six years of telemedicine experience — which is what allows her to genuinely follow a patient after the return home. She volunteers with the Himalayan Rescue Association in Nepal and sits on the board of One Path Medical, which provides care in Tibet: she knows what it means to treat, and to be treated, far from home. She is our patients' American point of reference — she checks that the file is complete before a case travels to Italy, and follows continuity of care on their return, with their own physician.

Prof. Ferdinando Franzoni

Clinical direction — Tuscany

Prof. Ferdinando Franzoni is Associate Professor at the University of Pisa, in the Department of Clinical and Experimental Medicine. A graduate in Medicine and Surgery from Pisa and a specialist in Internal Medicine with honours — the Italian equivalent of U.S. board certification, earned through a five-year university residency — he brings thirty years of cardiology practice: echocardiography and cardiac and vascular colour Doppler, stress testing, Holter monitoring, autonomic testing. He is a member of the Italian Society of Cardiology and of the European Society of Cardiology, and in 2024 completed a second-level Master's in advanced echocardiography and imaging. He has authored more than 250 scientific publications, some two hundred of them in peer-reviewed international journals, for a combined impact factor above 400 and more than five thousand citations; he reviews for journals including Heart and the International Journal of Cardiology. For twenty years his research has concerned one thing: what physical exercise does to the heart, the vessels and the brain as we age. Alongside the university he has directed private clinics and diagnostic centres, and for over ten years he has been responsible for clinical risk management at an accredited private hospital, with specialist training in the field at the Catholic University of Rome: he knows how a facility works from the inside, and he knows where things go wrong. At ItalyCare he is the clinical director — no patient travels without his clearance, and he is the one who decides when it is safe to fly home.

World-class medical care in Tuscany —
at a fraction of U.S. costs