Medical Travel: Answers to Your Clients' Questions
http://www.travelmarketreport.com/articles/Medical-Travel-Answers-to-Your-Clients-Questions
Now, with the implementation of the Affordable Care Act, U.S. consumers face the possibility of long wait times and escalating prices; as a result, we expect medical travel traffic to be brisk in 2014. Even travel agents who don't choose to specialize ...
Don't cheat on your travel medical insurance application
http://www.thestar.com/business/personal_finance/2013/11/10/dont_cut_corners_on_snowbird_travel_medical_insurance.html
What's worrisome is that about one-quarter of Canadians going abroad will have no medical insurance, says Isabelle Forget, Head of Travel Insurance for RBC Insurance. ?If something were to happen, it could cost you $50,000 or $100,000 if you don't have ...
Medical Tourism: The Future of Healthcare?
http://www.nbcbayarea.com/investigations/Medical-Tourism-The-Future-of-Healthcare-233414371.html
Medical tourism is a growing industry, enticing millions of Americans to travel abroad in search of cheaper health care. It's transformed into a billion dollar industry attracting both patients and healthcare providers alike. But as the industry grows ...
Why medical tourists need specialist medical travel insurance: Part 2
http://www.imtj.com/articles/2013/why-specialist-medical-travel-insurance-two-30184/
Ian Youngman from IMTJ continues his review of the use and availability of specialist travel insurance for medical tourism. Globally only a handful of agencies and insurers have introduced specialist medical travel insurance covers, and in the last ...
Medical Tourism: Overseas and Under the Knife
http://www.mensjournal.com/health-fitness/health/medical-tourism-overseas-and-under-the-knife-20131122
Nearly all medical travel is elective. Therefore, the most common procedures, after dental and cosmetic surgeries, are cardiac bypass and arterial stents, hip and knee replacements, spinal disk repairs, and spinal fusions. Replacements are way more ...
Turkey Included to the Web's Best Medical Tourism Directory as myMEDholiday ...
http://www.newsday.com/business/press-releases/turkey-included-to-the-web-s-best-medical-tourism-directory-as-mymedholiday-continues-expansion-of-prime-medical-tourism-destinations-1.6505469
They provide direct access to detailed information about top medical and healthcare facilities around the world, giving patients the tools to locate, compare and contact medical travel or medical tourism providers quickly and conveniently. Their ...
Heading south? Travel insurance may be the best money you'll spend
http://www.theglobeandmail.com/globe-investor/personal-finance/household-finances/heading-south-travel-insurance-may-be-the-best-holiday-money-you-spend/article15441396/
There are plenty of insurance companies that will offer travel medical coverage and the costs vary from well under $100 to the thousands depending on age, pre-existing medical conditions and length of uninterrupted stay. About 1.3 million snowbirds ...
Why American Medical Care Could Soon Be Like Air Travel
http://www.opb.org/news/article/npr-why-american-medical-care-could-soon-be-like-air-travel/
The bigger problem these days is how much we're being charged for drugs, hospital stays, doctors and bureaucracy, according to an analysis in JAMA, the American Medical Association's journal. Those items have accounted for almost 91 percent the ...
