Medical Tourism

Medical tourism is emerging as a pioneering industry in the Indian medical scenario. The recent successes of Indian surgeons as in the field of pediatric heart surgery and cosmetic surgery is acting as a catalyst luring medical tourists to India. To top it all, the infrastructure of Indian healthcentres is geared with the latest equipments suited to the needs of their clients.

Medical tourism is popularized widely by travel agencies and mass media to provide a back-up for today's rapidly growing trends of traveling to different countries to get cheaper and modern health-care facilities. Report shows that medical tourists are traveling largely from U.S., Europe, U.K.,Canada, Middle East, Japan etc. It's been established now that due to a sort of lengthy procedures for some of complicated illness, such as a hip replacement, patients have to wait several months in U.K. or Canada. Read the story.

Did you know that Americans are traveling to Asia and Latin America for orthopedic and cardiac surgery? The American Medical Association does. The AMA has issued Guidelines for Medical Tourism to protect patients' rights and safety while they get treatment abroad. Learn how to implement the AMA's Guidelines to improve quality and continuity of care, transparency and patients' understanding of their legal rights.

There is a good number of reasons that motivate Americans to go the medical tourism route and travel offshore to get health care, but the primary reason is to save money. To a lesser extent, they may get overseas sugary because the procedure they need is not available in the USA, or because they want to preserve their anonymity and wish to ensure their friends and neighbors back home do not know about their surgery, but the vast majority of American medical tourism patients do it for financial reasons.

Finally, as reported in 60 Minutes, NBC and internationally reported - low cost and high quality surgery for those that need elective or major surgery. Heart surgery, plastic surgery, joint replacement, and other costly medical procedures done for up to 80% less than your current quote. Yes, its "real" and done by some of the best doctors in the world for those that qualify. Literally a life saver for the uninsured or underinsured in the United States.