FAQ

Answer: Health Tourism, also known as Medical Tourism, is the practice of traveling to another country to receive medical treatment, procedures, or services. This often involves seeking high-quality healthcare services at a more affordable cost or accessing specialized medical expertise not readily available in the traveler’s home country.

Answer: Finding a reputable healthcare facility abroad is crucial for a successful health tourism experience. We, as a Health Tourism platform, partner with accredited and well-established medical facilities worldwide. Our team carefully evaluates the providers’ credentials, patient reviews, and quality of services before listing them on our platform. Rest assured, you can rely on our vetted network of healthcare providers.

Answer: The visa requirements vary depending on the destination country and your nationality. Some countries offer medical visas specifically for health tourism purposes, while others may require a standard tourist visa. We recommend checking with the embassy or consulate of your chosen destination to understand the visa requirements for medical travelers.

Answer: Planning your health tourism trip is a straightforward process with our platform. Firstly, browse through our list of healthcare providers and destination options. Once you’ve chosen a medical facility and a destination, contact us to initiate the booking process. Our team will guide you through the necessary steps, including appointment scheduling, travel arrangements, and accommodations, ensuring a seamless and stress-free experience.

We offer wide range of international doctors and clinics and you can compare fees and quality of services, choose the best doctors with your budget

compare. Our role is to make things better for you. 

There are a host of services incorporated in our medical travel program. We will walk you through the entire process. You need not be aware of anything about the medical tourism process other than your wish to receive a medical procedure. Please follow this link to receive more information about our process.

A legitimate concern that most people have when considering medical care abroad is legal recourse in the event that something goes wrong. In the unlikely event that some medical malpractice error does occur, it would be very unrealistic to expect any financial recourse in a foreign jurisdiction.

Absolutely not, however, cost is always an important factor to consider when seeking medical care. If you work with World Medical Tourism, we will assist you in finding the facilities and doctors that will be much less expensive than in the US. However, we do not encourage you to travel abroad for surgery because it is cheaper. Surgery is a risky procedure, regardless where it is performed and should be taken very seriously and discussed with your family and other professionals. If you are serious about a surgery abroad, we can inform you about where you will find the best hospitals and doctors to perform your surgical procedure and save money.

The difference in price depends upon the medical procedure you choose. In reviewing the cost of many procedures in the some countries, versus the same ones performed in our selected destinations, costs are typically lower abroad. The greatest cost savings is typically found in cardiac procedures (75-90% lower fees outside of the United States). If you have received quotes in the US for $10,000, you can expect the same procedure to cost between $2,000 and $5,000. This significant cost reduction enables you purchase a round trip air ticket, recover in a 5 star resort, buy a new wardrobe, and return home saving money.

Although many countries have imitated our world-renowned health care system in terms of quality and technology, they have not adopted our legal system completely. Doctors in the US are required to pay medical malpractice insurance that usually cost over $100,000 annually. Foreign doctors are required to pay medical malpractice insurance as well, but their costs are as low as $4000 annually. In addition to this insurance, certain economies are at different stages of development than the US. This absolutely does not mean that their healthcare technologies and institutions are behind the US. In fact, most of the private hospitals in our network use exactly the same equipment and instruments as the most advanced hospitals in the US. 

Here are some other reasons why the costs are less overseas:

•             Lower cost of labor

•             Lower real estate values

•             Lower construction costs (to build hospitals)

•             Favorable exchange rates

•             Lower government taxes

•             No accounts receivable collections issues with medical tourism patients (cash/credit card payment before release from hospital)

•             No emergency room bad debt

•             Less administrative paper shuffling

•             Less bureaucracy/red tape

•             Cheaper medical supplies/equipment/medications

To begin with, one of our key service offerings to you is to provide all the information to you about the doctors in order for you to make the most educated decision possible. We will provide you with resumes and facilitate phone conversations or even video conferences. If you are still not comfortable, we will work to provide you with the information about the doctors that is important to you.

As part of our health tourism service, we will help facilitate the initial consultation between you and the doctor. For cosmetic surgery, the doctors will want to see images of the designated regions for surgery. These images can easily be sent via email though the use of a privacy number that will be assigned to you to protect your anonymity.

We will do our best to insure that you are comfortable with the hospitals that you choose.

A large part of our value to you is that we have visited these facilities personally and can attest to their standards of hygiene, modernity and use of technology. We will also be your advocates to assist in obtaining necessary statistics for your chosen facility. Additionally, even though the hospitals in our network have accreditation from their government and non-government entities, we will continue to work with the executive management teams of the foreign hospitals in our network to seek accreditation from the Joint Commission International.

Our sole purpose is to provide you with the necessary tools and information to make an informed and educated choice about medical tourism options. We absolutely will not encourage, advice, advocate or underwrite any of the doctors or healthcare facilities in our network. The choice is completely up to you. We will facilitate your research and provide answers to multitude of questions that you may have.

If you are interested in or require a certain procedure that is not listed on our website, please contact us so that we may assist you in your search. Our network covers a wide spectrum of medical procedures, from the least invasive procedures to the most advanced procedures.

Such advice is certainly to be expected. Rest assured that the US is not the only country that has rigorous healthcare standards and strong patient rights. If fact, you may be surprised to learn that your local hospital has lost accreditation due to poor quality standards. Many hospitals throughout the world are accredited by the JCAHO or Joint Commission International, a US based hospital accreditation organization. Check to see if your hospital is accredited by the JCAHO.

 Your travel plans will be entirely dictated by the surgical procedure you select. Once you select a procedure and destination, we inform you about the recommended recuperation time required before return travel.

World Medical Tourism has been in existence since July of 2003 and has had an international presence since January of 2004. Feel free to conduct an internet search on us — you’ll be pleased to find only positive information about the great things we do for our patients.

You don’t have to work with a medical tourism service agency. You can contact an overseas hospital directly, schedule your appointments, and book all your arrangements on your own. Many people have done this. However, if you work with a reputable service agency, they have taken care of all the guesswork for you. They have personally inspected all of their affiliate hospitals, met the doctors, and have established strong relationships with their affiliates. They will have a direct connection to all the administrators of your hospital. Equally important, they will have many past clients that have had your procedure, whom they can refer you to speak about their experience with the destination, the doctor, the hospital, and even the hotel. Pages could be written about the value of working with a service agency, versus attempting to manage the process on your own.

It depends on your selected procedure. In most cases the required length of stay in your destination will be between 2 and 3 weeks. Your surgeon will advise you on the length of stay in the hospital and destination in your initial pre-travel quotation.

No problem. If you need to make any changes to your medical retreat itinerary, your Program Manager will take care of all the work for you. They will revise your flight itinerary, as well as your hotel stay. They will even contact family and friends back in the USA to inform them of your changes.

Our Program Managers are available 24/7 to serve you. They sleep with their cell phones so that they are in constant contact with you. You will never have to worry about being abroad and not being able to contact us for assistance.

Prior to you departure from the US, you will be given 4 contact numbers. These contacts include your US Program Manager, Destination Program Manager, the Director of Facilitation, and the Managing Director of World Medical Tourism. In most destinations, you will receive a cell phone to use through the duration of your medical retreat. This cell phone is programmed with all the pertinent phone numbers that you will need.

At World Medical Tourism, we offer a Guarantee, which stipulates that if you decide to not go through with your procedure after meeting your doctor and touring the hospital, you will be refunded 100% of your initial deposit. For more information, please see our Guarantee.

We encourage our clients to bring a companion along with them. They can stay in the same hotel room at no additional charge. In fact, many of our hotel affiliates offer large buffet breakfast for two. The only extra expense that your companion will incur will be the cost of the flight, meals, and other travel essentials.

Yes. You can make your own flight arrangements. However, we strongly encourage our clients to use our affiliate travel partner so that in the event you need to make any changes to your medical retreat flight itinerary, we easily work with our travel partner to make those changes on your behalf. Although you may find a cheaper flight over the internet, making changes could be very difficult.

Yes, many of our clients have used their frequent flyer mileage for additional savings. Once you begin working with our travel partner, they will assist you in finding flights that will accept your frequent flyer miles.

Yes. You can arrange your own hotel stay. However, we strongly recommend that you stay in one of our affiliate hotels. The simple reason is our concern for your safety. We have personally selected our affiliate hotels based upon their proximity to the hospitals, reputation for customer service, safety, amenities, and convenience. If you’re not familiar with the destination, you could select a hotel that is less expensive than our affiliate partners, but may be in an unsafe area or have poor customer service.