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Medical travel is evolving into a worldwide health care delivery system offering both quality care and significantly lower costs.

Why Medical Tourism?

Medical tourism (medical tourist) is a term applied to the exploitation of cost differentials that significantly benefit the informed buyer. Why should only large corporations be the ones to benefit from the huge cost advantages incurred through outsourcing?


The world of health care has changed significantly in the past few years. We all know that the cost of quality health care has skyrocketed, the quality of that needed care has not, and many overseas facilities taken up the slack to provide luxury quality care and surroundings to specifically serve the medical tourism market. It's a market like all others that is service driven, where hospitality and healing surroundings combine with superior quality medical care and unquestionably lower costs to create a very real incentive you can't ignore.


Medical tourism is becoming an accepted reality to more and more people - a growing number are becoming spokespeople for the medical tourism concept having themselves become medical tourists. They speak of ultra-modern facilities to superior personal service, significantly shorter wait times to more modern, luxurious and relaxing recuperative environments. Medical tourism enables the health care consumer to make advantageous purchasing decisions that don't compromise on care, and can improve the overall experience.


One thing many people are unaware of is that traveling to obtain better medical care has always been a standard practice for the wealthy. Medical tourism, bringing rich foreigner to the US, has always created a thriving demand for hospitals specializing in state of the art strategies. These are clients who pay cash, do not involve the oversight hassle imposed by insurers, and in short are the best customers.


From NewAmericaMedia.org


While many Americans are traveling to India and Singapore for affordable lifesaving or cosmetic procedures, affluent foreign patients are paying cash upfront for stateside surgery and routine checkups in large medical centers with concierge services that cater to traveling families' banking, dining and shopping desires.


Call it medical tourism, American style.


Bouncing back from a post-9/11 setback in Middle Eastern patients by reaching out to Europe, Latin America and the Caribbean, this market is competitive and lucrative. Neither the American Hospital Association nor the federal government knows the total number of foreign patients who received care at U.S. international medicine centers last year, or how much revenue U.S. hospitals and local economies reaped for treating them and hosting their families. According to "The Healthcare Business Market Research Handbook," by Richard K. Miller and Associates, annual revenue to U.S. hospitals for treating foreign patients who return home afterward totals more than $1 billion.

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