Este reporte examina las tendencias del turismo médico que muestra la creciente
cifras de consumidores viajando alrededor del mundo en busca de una tratamiento
médico de calidad y accesible. Muestra cómo en Latinoamérica, Brazil, México
y Costa Rica lideran como suplidores de este tipo de servicios.
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Medical
Tourism: Emerging Phenomenon in Health Care Industry
Many patients are traveling great distances
to obtain quality care at lower cost
The impact of dramatically rising U.S. health care costs is prompting increasing
numbers of consumers to consider outbound medical tourism as a viable care option.
In 2007, an estimated 750,000 Americans traveled abroad for medical care; this
number is anticipated to increase to six million by 2010. Concurrently, inbound
medical tourism and medical tourism across state lines continue to present opportunities
for specialty hubs offering treatments unavailable elsewhere in the world or
in a community setting.
Medical Tourism: Consumers in Search of Value, a new paper from the
Deloitte Center for Health Solutions, part of Deloitte LLP, examines the growth
of medical tourism: the hot spots for outbound and inbound programs and factors
important to the attractiveness of both.
Deloitte’s 2008
Survey of Health Care Consumers explored the consumer’s outlook on medical
tourism. The survey discovered that medical tourism is set to explode in growth
over the next three to five years.
As patients are exposed to greater financial burdens resulting from higher
co-payments and price transparency efforts, they are likely to seek low-cost
treatment alternatives such as medical tourism. This, in turn, has major implications
for health care providers, health plans, employers, regulators and policymakers.
To read the full report, please download the attachment below.
Series on “Disruptive Innovations” in Health Care
This paper is part of a series of reports by the Deloitte Center for
Health Solutions about “disruptive innovations” in health care. Learn
more about the series.
Related Content:
Economist Article on Medical Tourism: Globalisation
and Health Care: Operating Profit
Modern Healthcare Feature Story: Medical
Migration
2008 Survey of Health Care Consumers: Medical
Tourism Findings
Overview: Center
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