Change in Plans: Partnership to Connect HR Professionals with Cost-Saving Options at World Medical Tourism Congress
Summary
“With one eye on keeping employees healthy and productive and the other on the bottom line, self-funding employers are adjusting strategies to integrate medical tourism options into their health benefit coverage plans.For a preliminary list of speakers, go to: http://www.medicaltourismcongress.com/speakers_year/2014-speakers/ Stephano said despite the best intentions of the Affordable Care Act, the United States spends 18 percent of the gross domestic product on healthcare, more than any other peer nation.What they may not know is that Americans who have been exposed to medical tourism have taken advantage of bargain prices – up to 70 percent less abroad – for comparable elective procedures and treatments offered in the United States.“With one eye on keeping employees healthy and productive and the other on the bottom line, self-funding employers are adjusting strategies to integrate medical tourism options into their health benefit coverage plans.For a preliminary list of speakers, go to: http://www.medicaltourismcongress.com/speakers_year/2014-speakers/Stephano said despite the best intentions of the Affordable Care Act, the United States spends 18 percent of the gross domestic product on healthcare, more than any other peer nation.