Medical Travel
The globalization of healthcare has forced the traditional notion that people receive medical treatment close to home to be abandoned. Annually, millions of patients are crossing every foreign border to receive state-of-the-art medical treatments for classic ailments or experimental procedures for the most obscure conditions.
Recognizing the significant cost savings, employers and individuals alike are participating in medical tourism. Employers add the benefit to their self-insured health plan. Individuals (uninsured and underinsured) contact medical tourism facilitators or venture on their own to receive procedures outside their homeland. When done properly, quality of care is never compromised.
We offer over a decade of experience in the medical travel space. For the medical tourism facilitator company or the self-insured employer wanting to add a medical travel benefit, our resources and knowledge go beyond just legal. We provide expertise at a minimum in the following:
· Medical Tourism Facilitators
- Corporate formation and governance
- Risk Management
- Patient forms
- Insurance product review and assessments
- Provider Agreements
- HIPAA assessment and compliance
- Marketing risk assessment and management (FTC, etc.)
· Self-Insured Employers
- Analysis of Healthcare Providers
- Risk Management
- Summary Plan Description Amendments
- Proposed financial incentives
- Business Associate Agreements
- Medical Malpractice analysis and assessment