High-quality Healthcare Abroad

By doing the proper research, or consulting with a good agent, you ensure that you will receive high-quality medical services with the best doctors in your destination country.

Medical treatment centers in many of these countries offer state-of-the-art facilities. This includes new or renovated private hospitals that use cutting edge technology and equipment. The doctors in these facilities are trained to American and European standards, providing service that is equal or greater to what hospitals in USA offer.

Every year, hundreds of thousands of Americans travel abroad in order to receive medical procedures at a much lower cost — a phenomenon called "medical tourism."

“Medical tourism” was valued at about $439 billion last year in a new report by Visa and Oxford Economics, which projected that it could grow 25 percent a year over the next decade. This year, an estimated 1.4 million Americans will leave the country for a medical procedure, according to Patients Beyond Borders.

Given the high cost of healthcare in the US, Americans cite savings as the most common reason to travel abroad for health treatment. For Americans without health insurance, the difference in cost can be staggering.

Mediacal Tourism Savings?

Using US costs across a variety of specialties and procedures as a benchmark, average range of savings for the most-traveled destinations:

Brazil: 20-30%
Costa Rica: 45-65%
Colombia: 35-75%
India: 65-90%
Malaysia: 65-80%
Mexico: 40-65%
Singapore: 25-40%
South Korea: 30-45%
Taiwan: 40-55%
Thailand: 50-75%
Turkey: 50-65%

Many Americans take advantage of the lower costs of healthcare abroad to save money on cosmetic surgeries and dental work that is not covered by their health insurance in the US.

Since dental work and cosmetic surgery is not usually covered by most health insurance plans in the US, many Americans find that they are able to save thousands of dollars by traveling abroad for these costly procedures.

According to Physicians for a National Health Program, an estimated 108 million Americans have no dental insurance simply because most insurance companies do not offer dental coverage for adults. And dental work is not cheap in the US.