Benefits Sourcing: What’s Next in Health Care? Creative Cost Containment
An area quickly gaining in interest and uptake is medical tourism as part of the employee care offering. Medical tourism, which means traveling across international borders to obtain health care, is in and of itself not a new concept. However, the leading benefits consulting organizations consistently tell us their clients are increasingly asking how they can leverage medical tourism to save on expenses by giving employees options for health care outside traditionally high cost locations such as the U.S., Canada and the U.K. In addition to growing interest in medical tourism abroad, the U.S. is seeing interest in and development of domestic centers positioned to provide lower rates for care.
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