Employee Incentives and Education
Motivated individuals will travel long distances for medical treatment. Plan sponsors should be prepared to offer financial savings to motivate employees to travel distances for treatment.
Benefits Management
Motivated individuals will travel long distances for medical treatment. Plan sponsors should be prepared to offer financial savings to motivate employees to travel distances for treatment.
Foreign laws governing medical liability are not as strict as those in the U.S. and malpractice compensation awards are not as generous. Foreign physicians do not usually carry the same level of malpractice insurance as physicians practicing in the U.S.
All surgical procedures carry a certain degree of risk. Even the most skilled physicians may have an adverse outcome from a procedure. When a medical traveler has a negative outcome it is natural to wonder if it was due to the physician’s training or a substandard hospital.