Affordable Medical Tourism Solutions
Reuters is reporting that Healthbase Online, a medical tourism facilitator, is engaged in a pilot program with Wellpoint to provide global health care coverage to Wellpoints members in Wisconsin. Healthbase’s involvement in the pilot involves setting up all the medical & travel logistics.
Under the Wellpoint program, members who choose to have non-emergency elective procedures performed overseas, such as joint replacement, will have access to Joint Commission International accredited HealthCare providers in India.
The program would save members thousands of dollars in out-of-pocket costs.
As previosuly reported here in this blog, studies conducted by UCLA medical school have shown that patients who have procedures down overseas have a much greeater chance of experiencing complications or post-op infections. Nonetheless there continues to be interest in the program in the name of saving money. We will see if similar programs proliferate among other health insurance carriers, subsequent to this pilot program.
