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This type of service exists in the US, but it's VIP/concierge level. Insurance typically does not cover all or even most of it. I looked into doing exactly wh
by phil21 3y ago
This type of service exists in the US, but it's VIP/concierge level. Insurance typically does not cover all or even most of it.
I looked into doing exactly what your wife (seems to) does at the Mayo clinic recently. It's not entirely out of the question, about double to triple my out of pocket for going local via the usual route.
What they offer is basically this: Describe your issue to a care team prior to your arrival, once you arrive you will meet with your primary specialist and get referred to any tests/etc. you may need doing. These will all be scheduled in advance and simply canceled if you end up not needing them. Even the most likely procedure(s) will be scheduled, so you end up getting done in 2-3 days what typically would take 3-6mo due to wait times via my local hospital system.
It's incredibly tempting, despite the cost. The primary reason I go without medical care is due to the constant starting/stopping of the system. I need to focus on a problem and get it done with, not let it drag on for months.
- fnordpiglet 3y agoI don’t know about Korea, but I know I can save money and time by flying to Thailand and going to their top medical tourism hospital. Insurance pays for part of it, but even if not the out of pocket is less than my deductible if I just pay directly. Everything is done immediately on a walk in basis, start to finish. If I need to stay the night they even have a hotel in the hospital. If you need extended treatment they have agreements with luxury hotels to provide nursing etc and the cost is less than a normal hotel in a major American city or a nice hotel in a second/third tier city. The medical system in America is broken. The best care is possible here, but it requires extraordinary measures to get it. For 99.9% of care it’s below third world.
- latchkey 3y agoVietnam also had some good hospitals. Their lasik treatments are top notch, latest equipment, and cheap. I've had great dental work done in Saigon. Friend of mine just got dental done in Puerto Vallarta because their dentist in Berkeley kept screwing it up, wanting more and more money.
- theshrike79 3y agoThere was a video about a dude getting a hair transplant (got bald at 25). It was cheaper to take a week off work, fly to Turkey with the whole family, stay for a week in a five star hotel and get the treatments in a hospital than it was to do the same operation in the US. The package covered even limo rides from the airport to the hotel and hospital =)
- MichaelZuo 3y agoThe exact same care is available in the U.S. for approximately the same price as Thailand, after adjusted for local cost of living.
- giardini 3y agoSorry, I've already survived once lying in a ditch getting IV fluid from a coconut while bleeding out and waiting for the morphine to cut in. Does Thailand have real doctors now? I always put them up there with Cambodia, North Korea, Burma(Myanmar), and Hell, known for their abundance of primarily alcoholic or drug-addicted western doctors who fled their native countries to avoid criminal charges. But I ramble...
- fnordpiglet 3y agoThailand is extraordinarily developed, along the lines of South Korea. Your experience must be quite dated. The doctors in Thailand are often western trained, but are top of their fields globally. The education system in Thailand is excellent and universal, the economy is vibrant, and the infrastructure is well developed including high speed rail etc. https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883860/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3883860/
- winrid 3y agoI've considered doing this, considering I can't get either PPO or HMO insurance to pay for an MRI here.