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Moving to Mexico · Healthcare · Reviewed September 4, 2026

Healthcare in Mexico for foreigners

Mexico runs a mixed public and private. This page covers how a newly arrived American gets inside it, how long that takes, what to do about the period before it happens, and what private cover costs here against what you are used to paying at home.

System modelMixed public and private4 of 15 countries here
Typical private cover$150/mo$1,800 a year
US employer plan, for scale$777/moLocal cover is 81% cheaper
Rank on premium9 / 15Cheapest first, across every country we cover

General information, not medical advice. What you are entitled to depends on your permit category, your contribution record and your circumstances, and what you are covered for depends on the policy you actually buy. Confirm your position with Mexico's health authority and read the policy documents before you rely on them. For anything clinical, ask a doctor.

The system in brief

SystemThree parallel systems. IMSS is the contributory social insurance scheme for private sector employees, ISSSTE covers federal workers, and IMSS-Bienestar provides free care to people without social security. OECD Health at a Glance 2025 puts core service coverage at 78% of the population, health spending at USD 1,588 per capita in PPP terms against an OECD average of USD 5,967 (about 6% of GDP versus 9%), and 2.7 practising physicians per 1,000 people against an OECD average of 3.9. Out-of-pocket payments account for 41.2% of all health spending, the highest share in the OECD and roughly four times the US figure of 10.9%.
Access for foreignersLegal residents can enrol voluntarily in IMSS through the Seguro de Salud para la Familia (Modalidad 33), a single annual premium priced by age. The 2026 schedule runs from MXN 9,300 at ages 0-19 to MXN 22,150 at 80 and over, about USD 550 to USD 1,306 a year at the Banxico FIX rate of 16.956 MXN/USD. The brackets most movers fall into are MXN 12,350 at ages 30-39, MXN 14,350 at 40-49, MXN 14,850 at 50-59 and MXN 20,600 at 60-69, so roughly USD 730 to USD 1,215 a year. IMSS screens for pre-existing conditions and applies waiting periods before some treatments, so confirm the current rules before relying on it. Registered residents with a CURP can also enrol in IMSS-Bienestar. In practice most American residents use private hospitals, paying cash for routine care and carrying a Mexican major-medical policy for catastrophic cover. Medicare does not pay for care in Mexico.
ModelMixed public and private
Typical private cover$150/mo
US employer plan, for scale$777/mo total premium

Mexico runs three parallel systems. IMSS covers private-sector employees, ISSSTE covers federal workers, and IMSS-Bienestar covers people without social security. The OECD puts core-service coverage at 78% of the population, health spending at USD 1,588 per person in PPP terms against an OECD average of USD 5,967, and 2.7 practising physicians per 1,000 people against an OECD average of 3.9. Out-of-pocket payments make up 41% of all health spending in Mexico against 11% in the US, the highest share in the OECD. That single number tells you how the system really works: people pay cash.

Legal residents can buy into IMSS voluntarily through the Seguro de Salud para la Familia, known as Modalidad 33. It is one annual premium priced by age, and for 2026 it runs MXN 12,350 at ages 30 to 39, MXN 14,850 at 50 to 59 and MXN 20,600 at 60 to 69, so roughly USD 730 to USD 1,215 a year. IMSS screens for pre-existing conditions and applies waiting periods before some treatments, so confirm the current rules before you count on it for a condition you already have.

Most Americans instead buy a Mexican major-medical policy and pay cash for routine visits. Premiums are not published centrally; brokers commonly quote something in the range of USD 100 to USD 200 a month for a healthy person in their forties or fifties, and considerably more past 60. Medicare pays nothing in Mexico.

Check what the public tier does not cover before you assume it replaces your policy. Dental, optical and outpatient prescriptions are the usual exclusions.

Getting covered, step by step

The order matters more than the paperwork. In a mixed public and private, entry is not granted by arriving; it is granted by a registration or a contribution, and everything before that is on you.

Who can actually join in Mexico: Legal residents can enrol voluntarily in IMSS through the Seguro de Salud para la Familia (Modalidad 33), a single annual premium priced by age. The 2026 schedule runs from MXN 9,300 at ages 0-19 to MXN 22,150 at 80 and over, about USD 550 to USD 1,306 a year at the Banxico FIX rate of 16.956 MXN/USD. The brackets most movers fall into are MXN 12,350 at ages 30-39, MXN 14,350 at 40-49, MXN 14,850 at 50-59 and MXN 20,600 at 60-69, so roughly USD 730 to USD 1,215 a year. IMSS screens for pre-existing conditions and applies waiting periods before some treatments, so confirm the current rules before relying on it. Registered residents with a CURP can also enrol in IMSS-Bienestar. In practice most American residents use private hospitals, paying cash for routine care and carrying a Mexican major-medical policy for catastrophic cover. Medicare does not pay for care in Mexico. Check the official rule →

  1. Weeks before you fly: buy a bridging policyMany residence permits require documented medical cover at the application stage, and every route leaves you outside the local system for a period after you land. A monthly international policy covers both. Buy it before you arrive so the start date is the day you travel, not the day you get around to it.
  2. Before you fly: collect your recordsGet a summary from your current doctor, a list of medications by generic name rather than US brand name, immunisation records, and copies of imaging or specialist reports for anything ongoing. Refill prescriptions to cover the first few months, and check the import rules for anything controlled.
  3. On arrival: register your address firstAddress registration is normally the prerequisite for everything else, health registration included, so it goes first in the queue. Take the lease and your permit paperwork with you.
  4. Then: get into the systemThere is a public tier for residents and a large parallel private sector, and most foreigners end up using both. Public entry follows residence or contributions; private cover is bought directly and is what most newcomers rely on in the first year.
  5. Then: work out when cover actually startsWhether the public tier opens to you at all, and on what basis, is the question to settle first: in some of these systems it follows residence, in others it follows employment, and in others it stays closed to foreigners indefinitely. The rule for this country is set out above. Private cover, by contrast, starts the day the policy does, which is why most newcomers arrive on one.
  6. Once registered: choose a doctor and use it onceRegister with a local doctor and book a routine appointment before you need one. It is how you learn the referral chain, the appointment system and the out-of-hours arrangement while the stakes are low.
  7. Finally: overlap, then cancel the bridgeKeep the bridging policy running for two or three weeks past the date your local cover is confirmed active. Cancelling on the same day is how people end up with a gap exactly as long as one administrative delay.

The gap between landing and being covered

There is almost always a period where you are living in Mexico and not yet inside its health system. The gap is a decision as much as a delay: you can be technically eligible for the public tier and still be waiting months for the appointment you actually need.

How long it lasts depends on how quickly the registration in your case is processed, and that is the one variable you cannot control. Price the exposure rather than guessing at it. At Mexico's typical private premium of $150 a month, bridging cover costs:

Cost of holding bridging cover in Mexico, at $150 a month
If the gap runsTotal costReasonable when
1 month$150You are joining a local payroll and your employer handles the registration.
3 months$450The realistic default for most permit routes: registration, processing, then a card.
6 months$900Self-employed, or on a route where entitlement follows a residence period.
12 months$1,800You are staying on private cover by choice, or the permit requires it throughout.

Premiums vary with age, declared conditions and the excess you choose. Treat the figure above as a mid-market single-adult benchmark for planning, not a quote.

What private cover buys on top

Once you are inside the local system, private cover stops being a necessity and becomes a trade. What it typically adds:

  • Speed. Shorter waits for specialists, scans and elective procedures is the main thing being bought almost everywhere.
  • Choice of doctor and hospital, including consultants who are not taking public referrals.
  • Language. Access to English-speaking clinicians and English-language paperwork, which matters more in an emergency than it does on a good day.
  • The usual exclusions from public tiers: dental, optical, physiotherapy and some outpatient prescriptions.
  • Direct billing, so the hospital invoices the insurer instead of you, and repatriation or evacuation cover if you are far from major hospitals.

Before buying, read three things: the waiting period for pre-existing conditions, the annual limit, and whether the policy pays the provider directly or reimburses you afterwards. Those three decide what the policy is worth in the week you actually use it.

What it costs against a US plan

Employer-sponsored single coverage averaged about $777 a month in total premium, most of it paid by the employer, before deductibles and out-of-pocket costs. A comparable private policy in Mexico runs about $150 a month , roughly 81% less, and here it usually sits on top of a public entitlement rather than instead of one.

Typical private cover in Mexico against the US employer-plan baseline
MeasureMexicoUnited States
Per month$150$777
Per year$1,800$9,324
Over three years$5,400$27,972
Difference per year$7,524 less in Mexico
Share of the average local net salary15%18%
What it buys youCover on top of, or ahead of, the mixed public and privateYour primary route to care

The two figures are not like for like, and the difference is the point. The US number is a total employer-sponsored premium for a single adult, most of it paid by an employer and invisible on a payslip, and it still sits in front of deductibles, copays and out-of-network billing. The Mexico figure is what an individual pays out of pocket for private cover in a market where a public tier exists underneath it. The salary-share row is the one to read if you are taking a local job rather than keeping a US one.

See how the rest of the budget compares in Mexico →

Private cover across every country we cover

Mexico ranks 9 of 15 on typical private premium, cheapest first, at $150 a month. The median across the dataset is $130, which puts Mexico 15% above it. The range runs from $58 in Sweden to $465 in Germany.

Typical monthly private cover for a single adult, cheapest first
CountryRankPer monthPer yearSystem model
Sweden1$58$696Universal public system
Norway2$60$720Universal public system
Portugal3$75$900Universal public system
Spain4$90$1,080Universal public system
Canada5$95$1,140Universal public system
New Zealand6$95$1,140Universal public system
United Kingdom7$112$1,344Universal public system
Australia8$130$1,560Mixed public and private
Mexico · this page9$150$1,800Mixed public and private
Japan10$160$1,920Social health insurance
Thailand11$180$2,160Mixed public and private
Netherlands12$182$2,184Social health insurance
Ireland13$184$2,208Mixed public and private
Italy14$200$2,400Universal public system
Germany15$465$5,580Social health insurance
United States (baseline)Not ranked$777$9,324Employer-sponsored premium

A cheap premium and a cheap system are different claims. A low figure in a mainly-private market often means a low ceiling on what the policy pays; a low figure alongside a universal public system usually means the policy is only buying speed.

What each funding model costs to sit on top of

Private premiums are not random across countries; they track what the public tier already does. Grouping every country in the dataset by funding model shows the pattern, and shows which group Mexico belongs to.

Typical private premium by healthcare funding model, across the 15 countries covered on this site
Funding modelCountriesMedian premiumRange
Universal public system8$93/mo$58 to $200
Social health insurance3$182/mo$160 to $465
Mixed public and private · Mexico4$165/mo$130 to $184

Read the median as what the market charges to top up that model, not as what healthcare costs in it. Where a public tier is broad, private cover is priced as an upgrade. Where there is no public tier to fall back on, the same monthly figure is buying your whole route to care.

The short list, before you fly

  • Check whether your Mexico permit requires proof of medical cover at application, and what minimum sum it has to cover.
  • Confirm the date your US plan ends, including whether it covers you at all once you are living abroad. Most employer plans do not.
  • Have the bridging policy active from the day you travel, not the day you land.
  • Carry medication in original labelled packaging with a copy of the prescription, and check the import rules for anything controlled.
  • Save the local emergency number and the nearest hospital to your address in your phone in the first week.
  • Ask your insurer, in writing, how pre-existing conditions are treated on the policy you are buying.

Proof of cover is a document requirement on most residence routes, so the insurance decision and the visa decision are the same decision. The Mexico residence routes and what each one asks for →

Health questions about Mexico

Does Medicare cover me in Mexico?

No. Medicare pays for essentially no care outside the United States. Americans in Mexico either pay cash at private hospitals, buy a Mexican major-medical policy, or enrol in IMSS voluntarily through Modalidad 33, whose 2026 annual premium runs MXN 12,350 at ages 30 to 39 and MXN 20,600 at 60 to 69. Many people keep paying Medicare Part B anyway to avoid late-enrolment penalties if they return.

Sources and review

The Mexico figures on this page, meaning the system description, foreigner access and typical private premium, come from the sources below and are reviewed alongside the rest of the Mexico dataset. The US premium is the KFF employer-survey figure held in our US baseline.

What these numbers are. Several figures on this page could not be matched to a published statistic and are reasoned estimates. Treat them as directional and check the official sources before acting on them. Where a source entry says a value is derived, estimated or crowd-sourced, that is exactly what it is: no international body publishes a like-for-like index for every category, and private insurance premiums are not published at all in most countries. Rent figures are national market averages, so a capital city will run above them. How the dataset is built.

  1. Banco de Mexico, tipo de cambio FIX (16.9560 MXN per USD, 3 September 2026) - the rate used for every peso-to-dollar conversion on this page — accessed September 4, 2026
  2. World Bank, PPP conversion factor for household and NPISH final consumption, Mexico (MXN 11.308778 per international dollar in 2025; MXN 10.801299 in 2024; the United States is 1.0 by construction) - the independent cross-check on the headline index. Divided by the 2024 period-average exchange rate it gives a consumption price level of 59.0 against the US at 100; rolled forward on Mexican and US all-items CPI to July 2026 and restated at the July 2026 peso it gives 62.4, which reproduces OECD's published 62 to within half a point — accessed September 4, 2026
  3. World Bank / IMF IFS, official exchange rate for Mexico, period average (MXN 19.24 per USD in 2025; MXN 18.30 in 2024) - used for the PPP price-level cross-check and the currency-risk comparison — accessed September 4, 2026
  4. OECD, Monthly comparative price levels, Mexico against the United States = 100: 62 in July 2026 (SDMX observation MEX.M.CPL.IX.USD.USA, 2026-07, OBS_VALUE 62). This is the headline col_index on this page. OECD builds it from the annual PPP benchmark for private final consumption, extrapolated with each country's consumer price index and converted at current market exchange rates, so it is a like-for-like consumer basket including rent and not a crowd-sourced sample. No crowd-sourced or user-submitted pricing is used anywhere on this page — accessed September 4, 2026
  5. OECD, PPP detailed results - price level indices, Mexico with the United States as base = 100, 2024 benchmark by COICOP division: food and non-alcoholic beverages 88.3, clothing and footwear 72.0, housing/water/electricity/gas and other fuels 42.7, furnishings and household equipment 89.7, health 46.0, transport 80.6, information and communication 65.6, recreation/sport/culture 63.3, education services 9.05, restaurants and accommodation 65.1, miscellaneous goods and services 55.0, actual individual consumption 50.9. These are the benchmark levels behind the category indices on this page. World Bank ICP 2021 agrees independently: dividing its Mexican category PPPs by the 2021 exchange rate of 20.2724 gives food 86.0, restaurants and hotels 59.3, transport 81.5 and actual housing/water/electricity/gas 38.1 — accessed September 4, 2026
  6. OECD consumer price indices by COICOP 2018, Mexico (compiled from INEGI's INPC, 2015 = 100), 2024 annual average to July 2026: all items 154.452 to 165.615 (+7.23%), food and non-alcoholic beverages 181.300 to 190.991 (+5.35%), actual rentals for housing 127.702 to 137.304 (+7.52%), water supply and other services relating to the dwelling 162.045 to 182.905 (+12.87%), electricity/gas and other fuels 132.157 to 127.968 (-3.17%), transport 161.884 to 170.856 (+5.54%), restaurants and accommodation 175.220 to 201.221 (+14.84%) - the Mexican half of the roll-forward from the 2024 OECD benchmark to July 2026 — accessed September 4, 2026
  7. US Bureau of Labor Statistics, CPI-U (US city average, not seasonally adjusted), 2024 annual average to July 2026: all items CUUR0000SA0 313.689 to 333.918 (+6.45%), food at home CUUR0000SAF11 306.536 to 321.643 (+4.93%), food away from home CUUR0000SEFV 368.743 to 396.859 (+7.62%), transportation CUUR0000SAT 270.685 to 289.420 (+6.92%), rent of primary residence CUUR0000SEHA 420.060 to 447.963 (+6.64%), fuels and utilities CUUR0000SAH2 314.768 to 353.712 (+12.37%) - the US half of the same roll-forward. Series are retrievable through the BLS public API, for example https://api.bls.gov/publicAPI/v1/timeseries/data/CUUR0000SAF11 — accessed September 4, 2026
  8. Federal Reserve Bank of St Louis (FRED), Mexican pesos to one US dollar: monthly average 18.3256 for calendar 2024 and 17.4557 for July 2026 (series EXMXUS), daily 16.9750 on 26 August and 17.0430 on 28 August 2026 (series DEXMXUS) - the exchange-rate leg of every index on this page and the independent confirmation of the Banxico FIX rate quoted above. The category indices are computed as the 2024 OECD benchmark multiplied by the Mexican category CPI ratio, divided by the matching US CPI ratio, multiplied by 18.3256/17.4557, which puts them on exactly the same July 2026 footing as OECD's published headline of 62. At the 3 September FIX rate of 16.956 every index would be about 3% higher — accessed September 4, 2026
  9. ESTIMATE, not a measured statistic: utilities_index_vs_us = 27. Basis is the typical monthly household bill for electricity, heating, water and refuse for a normal dwelling, converted to USD and indexed against a US monthly equivalent of about USD 210 for the same basket, so the Mexican bill assumed here is about USD 57 a month. The consumption assumption is a two-to-three-person dwelling on CFE's subsidised domestic tariff (tarifa 1/1A-1C) staying below the DAC threshold, LP gas cylinders for cooking and water heating rather than central heating, which almost no Mexican dwelling has, municipal water, and refuse collection, which most Mexican municipalities fund from the predial rather than billing separately. The saving over the United States is driven by consumption, not price: Mexican dwellings are smaller, unheated and use a fraction of US household electricity. It could not be derived from a permitted source because INEGI (ENIGH household expenditure) times out and CFE's tariff application serves a broken TLS certificate chain, both re-tested on the access date, and because the published OECD and World Bank ICP category levels stop at housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels combined (42.7 for Mexico in the 2024 OECD benchmark), which mixes rent with utilities and so cannot be used as a utilities-only ratio. What is verifiable is the direction: Mexican electricity/gas prices FELL 3.2% in nominal peso terms between the 2024 average and July 2026 while the US fuels-and-utilities index rose 12.4%. Treat USD 57 as a central case and verify against an actual CFE bill; a DAC-tariff household running air conditioning on the hot coast can pay several times this. The URL below is the INEGI-compiled electricity/gas/other-fuels series that establishes that direction — accessed September 4, 2026
  10. ESTIMATE, not a measured statistic: rent_1bed_center_usd 765 and rent_1bed_outside_usd 495. No Mexican statistical agency publishes advertised rents by dwelling size, and no permitted source publishes a US one-bedroom rent level by centre and periphery either, so both legs of this calculation are assumptions. The checkable half is the rent index of 45, derived below from OECD's 2024 price level for housing, water, electricity, gas and other fuels rolled forward on Mexican and US rent CPI. Applying 45% to an assumed US metropolitan one-bedroom of USD 1,700 in the centre and USD 1,100 outside gives the USD 765 and USD 495 carried here. Mexico City, Monterrey, San Miguel de Allende and the Riviera Maya sit well above them; secondary cities sit well below — accessed September 4, 2026
  11. Servicio de Administracion Tributaria (SAT), official portal home - Mexico's own tax authority and the responsible national authority for anything on this page about Mexican tax residency or Mexican tax obligations; the IRS pages cited here cover only the United States side and have no jurisdiction over Mexican tax. The portal home is cited rather than a deeper topic page because SAT's public site is a single-page application that returns the same shell for every /portal/public/ path, so no deeper URL can be confirmed as live content from outside a browser session. The substantive Mexican rule quoted on this page is Article 9 of the Codigo Fiscal de la Federacion, cross-checked against PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries below — accessed September 4, 2026
  12. Mexican fuel-price transparency feed that every service station must publish under the price-disclosure rules administered by the energy regulator (formerly CRE, now the Comision Nacional de Energia): national mean of MXN 23.67 and median of MXN 23.99 per litre of regular gasoline across the 13,794 stations of 16,318 in the feed that posted a regular price on 4 September 2026, about USD 5.28 per US gallon at 16.956 MXN/USD - the Mexican side of the fuel comparison and part of why the transport index sits near the US level — accessed September 4, 2026
  13. Secretaria del Trabajo y Prevision Social (gob.mx), average IMSS-registered contribution base salary of MXN 671.3 per day at the close of May 2026 - basis for the average net salary figure. MXN 671.3 a day is about MXN 20,410 gross a month; deducting ISR at the 2026 resident tariff and the employee IMSS contribution leaves roughly MXN 17,600, which at the July 2026 average rate of 17.4557 MXN/USD is the USD 1,010 carried here. The daily wage is the official statistic; the step from gross to net is our own calculation and is an estimate. This is the formal-sector average and sits above whole-economy averages, because more than half of Mexican employment is informal, so the typical Mexican worker earns less than this figure suggests — accessed September 4, 2026
  14. Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, Visa de residencia temporal (qualifying categories including economic solvency, family ties, property and investment; explicitly permits work for an employer paying from abroad; 30-day card exchange rule) — accessed September 4, 2026
  15. Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, Visa de residencia permanente (retiree and pensioner route; spouses of Mexicans hold temporary residency two years before applying for a permanent card) — accessed September 4, 2026
  16. Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, Visa de residente temporal estudiante (required for any student staying more than 180 days, regardless of nationality) — accessed September 4, 2026
  17. Secretaria de Relaciones Exteriores, Visa de visitante sin permiso para realizar actividades remuneradas (scope of the visitor condition: tourism, business meetings, training, medical and short educational stays) — accessed September 4, 2026
  18. Instituto Nacional de Migracion (gob.mx), official site and Tarifas de Derechos Migratorios 2026, in force from 1 January 2026 - the official page publishes the fee table only as an image, so the amounts below are taken from a secondary transcription — accessed September 4, 2026
  19. Migralaw (Mexican immigration law firm), transcription of the 2026 INM fee schedule - temporary resident card MXN 11,141 for 1 year, 16,693 for 2, 21,143 for 3, 25,058 for 4; permanent resident card MXN 13,579; visitor derecho de no residente MXN 983; consular visa fee USD 56; the 50% discount for family unity or a formal job offer is not automatic and must be requested with documents. Secondary source, used because INM publishes the table only as an image and Mexican consulate websites block automated access — accessed September 4, 2026
  20. Mexperience, financial criteria for Mexican residency 2026 (UMA of MXN 117.31 per day published 8 January 2026; 680 UMA monthly income and 11,460 UMA savings for temporary residency; 1,140 UMA and 45,850 UMA for permanent residency; an extra 220 UMA per dependent spouse or minor child) — accessed September 4, 2026
  21. IRS, Mexico tax treaty documents (1992 income tax treaty and 2003 protocol, both listed as in force). This is the United States tax authority and is cited only for the US side of the treaty; it has no jurisdiction over Mexican tax, so the tax authority link on this page points at SAT instead — accessed September 4, 2026
  22. IRS, Figuring the foreign earned income exclusion (maximum exclusion USD 132,900 per qualifying person for tax year 2026; USD 130,000 for 2025) — accessed September 4, 2026
  23. IRS, Totalization agreements - the page does not enumerate countries and directs readers to the SSA list of agreements in force, which does not include Mexico. The 2004 US-Mexico agreement was signed but has never entered into force — accessed September 4, 2026
  24. PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, Mexico individual residence (a person is resident once they establish a home in Mexico; where a home is also kept abroad, the centre of vital interests turns on more than 50% of income from Mexican sources or Mexico being the primary place of professional activity) — accessed September 4, 2026
  25. PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, Mexico taxes on personal income (2026 resident table runs from 1.92% on the first MXN 10,135.11 to a top rate of 35% on income of MXN 5,107,703.93 and above) — accessed September 4, 2026
  26. PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, Mexico individual other taxes (general VAT rate 16%; a 50% VAT tax credit in the northern border region gives an effective 8% rate; employee social security contributions capped at MXN 29,103 a year) — accessed September 4, 2026
  27. PwC Worldwide Tax Summaries, Mexico corporate other taxes (VAT payable at the general rate of 16% on sales of goods and services, leases and imports) — accessed September 4, 2026
  28. OECD Health at a Glance 2025, Mexico country note (health spending USD 1,588 per capita PPP versus an OECD average of USD 5,967; about 6% of GDP versus 9%; 78% of the population covered for a core set of services; 2.7 practising physicians per 1,000 versus an OECD average of 3.9; life expectancy 75.5 years) — accessed September 4, 2026
  29. World Bank / WHO Global Health Expenditure Database, out-of-pocket expenditure as a share of current health expenditure, 2023 (Mexico 41.24%, United States 10.93%) — accessed September 4, 2026
  30. El Imparcial, IMSS Modalidad 33 Seguro de Salud para la Familia annual premiums for 2026 by age bracket (MXN 9,300 at 0-19; 11,550 at 20-29; 12,350 at 30-39; 14,350 at 40-49; 14,850 at 50-59; 20,600 at 60-69; 21,500 at 70-79; 22,150 at 80+). Mexican news source, used because IMSS blocks automated access to its own tramite page — accessed September 4, 2026
  31. Instituto Mexicano del Seguro Social (gob.mx), official IMSS portal — accessed September 4, 2026
  32. US Energy Information Administration, weekly US regular all formulations retail gasoline price (USD 4.071 per gallon, week ending 31 August 2026) - the US side of the fuel comparison — accessed September 4, 2026
  33. World Bank, total population of Mexico (131,946,900 in 2025; 130,861,007 in 2024) — accessed September 4, 2026

Nathan Brooks · Editor, Your New Country

Nathan builds and maintains the Your New Country dataset, reconciling figures from the OECD, Eurostat, the World Bank and national statistics offices, and reading each country’s immigration and tax guidance at the source before it is published.

  • Reads each country’s immigration, tax and health guidance in the original official source rather than in secondary coverage
  • Reconciles every published figure against OECD, Eurostat, World Bank and national statistics releases on a quarterly cycle
  • Publishes the derivation and the access date beside each number, and marks estimates as estimates

Data reviewed September 4, 2026 · source confidence: low ·methodology

Your New Country publishes reference information, not medical advice and not a statement of your entitlement. Eligibility and cover are decided by Mexico's health authority and by your insurer, not by this page. Confirm both before you travel. Mexico health authority →

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