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Saving on Surgery by Going Abroad

Medical tourism or medical travel can produce discounts of 80 percent

Posted May 1, 2008

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Cost of Medical Services Domestic or International

Regardless of whether a prospective patient decides to receive domestic surgery or travel abroad, what's most important is the quality of care and at what cost. If a patient finds an accredited hospital in the U.S. and also abroad, then it might actually come down to cost and also the track record of the specialists performing the procedure. What if a surgeon in the U.S. will perform your hip resurfacing and has only performed 50 procedures, but the specialist in India has performed 3,000? who is more qualified then? For assistance with coordinating your medical travel visit http://www.medpathgroup.com

Cost of Medical Services Domestic or International

Regardless of whether a prospective patient decides to receive domestic surgery or travel abroad, what's most important is the quality of care and at what cost. If a patient find an accredited hospital in the U.S. and also abroad, then it might actually come down to cost and also the track record of the specialists performing the procedure. What if a surgeon in the U.S. will perform your hip resurfacing and has only performed 50 procedures, but the specialist in India has performed 3,000? who is more qualified then? For assistance with coordinating your medical travel visit http://www.medpathgroup.com

This all makes perfect sense, right. You take a medically fragile person, put him on a "big ole jet airliner", fly him literally to the other side of the world so someone skilled with instruments can do six hours of manual work on his insides without killing him with infection.

Imagine you're the proverbial man from Mars looking at this from afar (or, for that matter, God, looking down on this from afar). Have earthlings gone nuts, or what?

But there are "financial realities" you say.

Yes, and there are "real realities" I say.

Corporations are standing in the way of people OR it should be cheaper and safer to do these surgeries in America.

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Insurance for Medical Tourism

While the costs are definitely cheaper abroad, the quality of doctors and hospitals need checking, thus the need for medical tourism companies. The insurance for such services though is hard to come by. I have come across an interesting company that has assisted many Americans with liver, hip, knee surgeries - www.worldmedassist.com. They have been selected by a major insurance company to deliver logistics for employees of businesses that sign up for "stop loss" insurance.

This is new - Swiss Re's Commercial Insurance announced today they now recognize medical travel coverage as part of their existing stop loss offering. Employer stop loss is available in all 50 states and the District of Columbia, through Westport Insurance Corp., a member of the Swiss Re Group, which underwrites the company's stop loss products. Coverage is coordinated with the employer's primary policy and with the patient's primary physician in the U.S. Swiss Re has selected WorldMed Assist (http://www.worldmedassist.com) as the third-party medical logistics provider to manage its medical travel option. Selected medical facilities are pre-selected to meet the criteria of the Joint Commission International (JCI) and/or an equivalent accreditation.

Dr. Quiroz

I am also a patient of Dr. Quiroz at Cosmed clinic in Tijuana. He and his staff were great and very attentive to my needs and concerns. I had an arm lift on May 28, 2008 and am still in recovery. Dr. Quiroz has checked on me and talked to me about proper care for my healing wounds. He went above and beyond to make sure that I was happy with my results. I know that I will be back at Cosmed in the near future to have more plastic surgery done. I still want to have a tummy tuck and breast implants. Cosmed gave me a great procedure at a fraction of the cost of the U.S.A. It was another step in my new journey in life. I would recommend Dr. Quiroz to anyone considering having plastic surgery. It was one of the best decisions I could have ever made.

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