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Around the world in 80 co-pays: a look at medical tourism

Over the past year there has been a lot of buzz about the term medical tourism. With health care costs continually rising, the attractiveness of providing medical care at up to 90 percent savings is pretty hard to ignore.

By Jonathan S. Edelheit | Updated on July 01, 2011

Over the past year there has been a lot of buzz about the term “medical tourism.” With health care costs continually rising, the attractiveness of providing medical care at up to a ninety percent saving is pretty hard to resist.

For those who have been resisting this growing trend, the resistance is usually because they don’t want to be the “trendsetter” in U.S. healthcare. More than a year ago, medical tourism was one of the top projects for all the major U.S. health insurance carriers. They all were moving forward with it, issuing RFPs for companies to propose implementing it for them, and performing site tours of top international hospitals to add to their network.

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