Top 10 Questions When Considering Medical Travel
Top 10 Questions When
Considering Medical Travel
Medical travel, or medical tourism, is growing in popularity … but is it the right option for you? Below, we’ve answered the top ten questions patients have about traveling for health care.
Many patients consider traveling for surgery to save both time and money.
Receive Faster Treatment
The waiting period for a disc replacement in Canada, for example, can be more than a year. A patient can travel to the United States, Turkey, Malaysia or India and have the procedure done almost immediately. Since most of the doctors in medical tourism destinations have been trained internationally, patients can expect high-quality health care at reputable institutions.
Save Money With Affordable Surgery
Some surgery options and medical procedures, especially knee and hip replacements, may not be covered by health insurance. As a result, patients seeking cheap and high quality surgery consider traveling for surgery to expand their options and reduce health care costs.
No. Health Options Worldwide provides you with a wide array of choices both within the United States and abroad. While patients can save money by traveling abroad for health care, many U.S. hospitals are reducing costs in order to become more accessible to patients and more competitive with international health care providers.
Patients can use our online marketplace to compare health care and surgery costs across a wide variety of destinations, both domestic and international.
Health Options Worldwide does not recommend or endorse any physician or hospital. We enroll willing medical professionals into our network and allow our patients to decide who to see and how much to pay. Health care providers upload information about their services into our database so you can make educated health care decisions. These details include experience, expertise, awards and more.
Through our online marketplace, patients can choose doctors and hospitals based on price, location, experience and a variety of other factors.
Lower labor and insurance costs contribute to cheaper surgeries in international hospitals. Cross-border patients can rest assured that the difference in cost isn’t due to a lack in quality; international hospitals abide by similar quality standards as facilities in the United States, ensuring affordable and high quality surgery options.
Most of the hospitals in our network have English-speaking doctors as well as an English-speaking staff. In fact, many international physicians have been trained in either the United States or the United Kingdom, so cross-border patients can travel for surgery with greater peace of mind.
Traveling for surgery can be an affordable health care option, as surgery is often less expensive outside the United States. Even after considering travel costs, most cross-border patients save money when traveling for health care.
The recovery time is the same no matter where the procedure is performed. Each physician and hospital must determine what’s best for your specific medical condition.
Following surgery, patients can either travel home or remain in the destination where they received treatment depending upon their physician’s recommendations. It's important for patients to consider follow-up care when making medical travel arrangements and to have a discussion with the physician so you are prepared for after this procedure. Patients can use our online marketplace to search for travel surgery destinations as well as local options where they can receive follow-up care.
If your insurance provider denies coverage of a procedure--or if you don't have health insurance--then you may be able to save money by traveling for health care. For patients who must pay out-of-pocket for health care treatment, medical travel can make treatments more affordable and accessible.
Some employers are recommending medical travel for their employees to ensure that patients receive affordable, efficient treatment in a timely manner, thus reducing the number of sick days taken by employees.
Whether you're an underinsured patient looking to reduce medical costs or you're simply wishing to look beyond the options provided by your insurance provider, Health Options Worldwide can connect you with a wide variety of health care options to fit your needs.
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