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Medical tourism feels the love with personalize care and insurance encouragement

It’s tough not to choose medical tourism when you can get a boatload of medical benefits, while being pampered to your heart’s content. The industry is ever-gaining popularity, and destinations are actively pursuing objectives that put the interests of the patient, like privacy, at the forefront. Insurance companies understand the growth of the medical tourism industry, and have opened their doors for the medical tourist.

Medical tourism is a natural friend to privacy

Infertility treatment

Medical tourism serves well to those who do not want others to know about any treatments they are getting or for that matter, surgeries that they undergo. In most cases, this is applicable to the stars, celebrities as well as VIPs who do not want their treatments and procedures made public.

The treatments that they prefer hiding from others include some cosmetic surgeries, infertility, or any condition they wouldn’t want to be public knowledge. In these cases, medical tourism offers such people a chance to leave their country and seek their desired healthcare overseas.

Personalized care a highlight of medical tourism

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With increasing population in the cities, there are a few efficient doctors and too many patients to take care of. The number of doctor/s serving people, if we talk in terms of doctor(s) available/per thousand patients, is quite less. It is, therefore, quite natural that these few doctors cannot pay attention to every patient and his/her needs.

An efficient practitioner charges more for personalized care. In some cases, people are ready to pay extra for personalized care, which, in turn, results in increased number of patients. Now, in a bid to earn more, medical practitioner ends up rendering second-class services to patients.

Unavailability of eligible physicians or medical professionals leave patients with no other choice but to look for alternatives, wherein medical tourism comes out to be the best one. Medical tourism caters well to those who want better care or personalized care at a fraction of the cost that the patient might need to pay in his home country.

Insurance companies and employers encourage medical tourism

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Insurance companies and employers are responsible to pay their employees for any health needs. As a result, the number of insurance companies and employers who encourage insured people and employees to travel abroad for healthcare is increasing with each passing day. The insurance companies have taken measures like including medical tourism in their policies to obtain the maximum monetary benefits and urging more and more patients to travel abroad for treatments. People who have high deductible plan should opt for services overseas, which are more economical as well as more beneficial for insurance company and employer.

Combine it with CAM for relaxing and pampering yourself

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There aren’t too many people who opt for medical travel for the sole purpose of combining medical care with Complementary Alternative Medicines (CAM). Still, we cannot and should not drop these medical tourists from the list of reasons why people are opting for the medical tourism.

Some of the chronic diseases and some diseases that are simply incurable after their primary stages come very hard on people; for example, cancer which requires powerful treatments like chemotherapy and radiations to eradicate it fully during the primary stages or even at a later stage. In such cases, complementary alternative medicines come to the rescue and help mitigate the sufferings of patients. CAM helps alleviate suffering and take away the pain to make patients feel better and relaxed.

Smiling young man in an acupuncture therapy

Complementary alternative medicines are nothing but ancient techniques that have resurfaced to provide relief to a number of ailing patients. As a result, people have now started combining medical care with alternative practices or more aptly known as Complementary and Alternative Medicine.

If you want alternative treatments, you have to travel abroad in case you don’t have access to CAM in your home country. To benefit from CAM therapies, traveling to regions like India and China makes more sense since alternative practices are a specialty in these countries.

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