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New 2009 Deloitte
Medical Tourism: Update and Implications - 2009 Report
Cost-saving medical tourism projected to grow 35 percent annually
With health care costs increasing at six percent per year for the next decade, and medical tourism offering savings of up to 70 percent after travel expenses, the Deloitte Center for Health Solutions estimates that the medical tourism industry will recover from the current economic downturn and attain 35 percent annual growth in coming years. This growth holds important implications for U.S. health care providers, health plans, consumers and the government.
A new study, “Medical Tourism: Update and Implications,” updates the Center’s 2008 report on the industry and examines the many factors that have influenced the growth and regulation of patients traveling for medical care, including Washington’s search for ways to control the country’s soaring health care costs. This timely study already has generated coverage by news media, including the Associated Press and USA Today.
This new report features:
- Medical tourism guidelines
- The role of health plans to incentivize medical travel
- States’ initiatives to adopt legislation
- Growth of foreign medical sites
- Impact of the U.S. economic downturn
Medical tourism has transitioned from a cottage industry to an acceptable alternative for elective care that’s safe and cost effective if coordinated by reputable health plans and providers. The emergent technologies of distance medicine combined with insurance coverage for certain low-risk procedures provide a backdrop for health growth in this sector.
Wednesday, October 28, 2009
Our vision is making travel to Spain available to receive world class health care a simple and desirable option for Americans and Canadians.
Our goal is to be recognized by Americans and Canadians as the first choice provider for medical and surgical care.
Our aim is to surpass the services offered by other medical tourism companies and produce a medical travel experience of the highest quality for people seeking non-acute surgical treatment. We are confident that Spain is perfectly placed to be at the forefront of such a service, providing first world health care with highly experienced, well trained specialists and excellent private hospitals.
SimpleCare Med Retreat believes in a complete approach to treatment, achieved by a close relationship with the patients’ doctors in their own country. This relationship results in relevant diagnostics tests being undertaken before arrival in Spain and Our guarantee is that, you will receive the highest quality health care at an internationally accredited hospital from a board certified surgeon using state-of-the-art equipment then, recuperate in a 4-5 star hotel and save up to 70% of the procedure cost in the US.
The only costs you will be responsible for before you return home will be your airfare and hotel expenses.
We’re confident, once you get to know us you won’t want to go through the process in any other way.
Wishing you a healthy and happy day from the SimpleCare Medical Retreat team.
Tuesday, October 27, 2009
Medical Tourism
The choice is yours.
Health Insurance Companies
Now Insurers can offer a high quality product complete with affordability in health premiums that allows you access to the rapidly growing medical travel and self insured market with a product and a destination whose quality you can trust and rely on. This allows you the competitive advantage to offer world-class quality surgical and medical services with reduced costs to your company and reduced (or no) 'out of pocket' expenses for your members.
The benefits to the insurer of offering a medical travel option may include:
• Market expansion: offering low premium products to sections of the market that are currently not members.
• Market consolidation: offering a lower cost solution to existing members.
• Limiting premium risk: providing lower cost, high quality procedures allows the insurer to manage their premium pool with more elasticity.
• Limit premium increases. The potential to limit premium increases: of particular importance in current financial times. With US medical inflation running at over 10%, the access to a lower cost provider will allow a deceleration of the premium increase.
• Provider competition to existing medical providers: resulting in a reduction in cost of local providers.
Find out how we can help your company to develop a tailor -made product option involving Medical Travel
Self Insuring Companies
We offer companies that provide self insurance to your employees to make substantial savings from your employee medical benefit costs but without compromising quality and yet providing your employees with a medical experience in one of the most beautiful, clean and tranquil countries in the world.. PPO, and cost containment companies
For all third party administrators (TPAs), Preferred Provider organizations (PPOs) or networks and cost containment companies medical travel to Spain offers you the chance to provide your clients with an option that will enable them to cut costs but not compromise on quality for non-acute surgical and medical services.
Physician Groups.
Work with us to provide affordable high quality healthcare to your patients who, for whatever reason, want or need care abroad.
SimpleCare is interested in partnering with you to provide access to world class, first world medical facilities and surgeons in a first world country.
Many of our specialists have trained and are board certified in North America and all are extremely experienced in the operations they perform.
The hospitals we use are all internationally accredited.