Medical Travel Overview
Affordable Medical Travel,
a Growing Trend
Medical travel, also known as medical tourism, offers patients additional health care and surgery options. This practice is growing in popularity, as patients can receive faster, more affordable surgery when they look beyond their local health care and surgery options.
A study conducted by the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions found that over 750,000 Americans left the country in 2007 and spent $2.1 billion on more affordable medical treatments overseas. Experts suggest that medical travel is growing 20% to 25% annually, and by 2017, up to 23 million Americans will travel abroad for medical treatment.
Domestic and International Options Abound
Many Americans are already traveling for surgery within their own state in order to receive the best health care they can afford. Traveling for health care can reduce surgical costs while improving the overall quality of care.
Even though patients can reduce health care costs by traveling overseas, affordable health care and surgery options can be found without leaving the country. Some patients are nervous about traveling abroad for medical care. For those individuals, domestic surgery options are optimal. Health Options Worldwide satisfies the needs of all patients by combining both international and domestic options into one searchable database.
A World of Choices at Your Fingertips with Health Options Worldwide
Using our interactive marketplace, patients can shop for physicians and treatments at their local community hospital, anywhere in the United States, and around the world. Health Options Worldwide connects patients with the best health care they can afford, wherever they care to go.
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