The newly launched IHT World LLC was created in an effort to counter the high costs of health care by offering custom packages for employer self-funded plans and using medical tourism and the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act to help businesses cut their health care costs.
IHT World helps employees travel outside of the U.S. for nonemergency medical treatments where the quality of care is at least equal to that of the U.S. but the cost is much lower, the company says.
The combined medical costs, rehabilitation expenses, and travel fees for the patient and a travel companion are much less than the cost of the procedure in the United States, IHT World maintains. In the case of knee replacement surgery, for example, an employer could save approximately $15,000 on each procedure.
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