Affordable Healthcare Employer Benefits, Found in a Place You Hadn’t Thought Of

Affordable Corporate Healthcare Benefits

With healthcare costs in the United States continuing to rise at higher rates than inflation, more and more American corporations and their workers are being affected each year as their inability to pare these growing expenses to past labor commitments and legacy threaten their very sustainability. This joint problem makes both parties face a difficult choice between giving up work and retirement benefits if the company goes bankrupt or have health plans for them, their loved ones, and retirees diminished or eliminated. Nevertheless, the globalization of healthcare seems to pose an escape valve with treatment abroad.

As one of the main Medical Travel destinations, Monterrey, Mexico counts with internationally accredited hospitals and top-notch doctors that are increasingly treating foreign patients from everything ranging between plastic surgery to cancer. Gabriel Senior, CEO of Travel for Care, a local medical travel facilitator states that “There is a substantive lack of knowledge by U.S. corporations and their workers about the high quality, low cost alternatives nearby. The top Hospitals in Monterrey offer a practical solution to employers looking for a simple, all-encompassing approach to the healthcare needs of their workers, families and retirees, with very affordable prices, and the same high quality service they expect at home.”

Hospital San Jose TEC is one of the main players in Monterrey offering inexpensive healthcare packages in all areas, from executive check-ups to cardiovascular care and orthopedics. It counts with the distinctive Joint Commission International Gold Seal of Quality, teams of the best US-trained specialists in Mexico, state-of-the-art technology, and is still able to offer prices that are between a third and a fourth of those in the U.S. “Even factoring in travel expenses for the patient and its family, American employers are set to save a lot if they send their employees over” says Sebastian Viramontes, Commercial Director at Hospital San Jose TEC. For example, a total knee replacement, which averages around $40,000 in the United States can be performed by this hospital’s top orthopedic surgeons in around $12,500. Adding about $3,000 in total travel and lodging expenses for the patient and a relative, and the total cost is still less than half of that in the U.S. This could allow employers to create voluntary schemes that offer cash incentives to their employees should they take surgery abroad. The overall benefits to both parties are clear.

One of the most interesting facts about the Medical Travel trend is that while American individuals and employers still debate themselves about the quality of healthcare in Mexico and the risk of seeking surgery abroad, what they will begin to realize is that when they do so, they access precisely the level of healthcare that only the 1% wealthiest and best insured of Mexicans can access. This means that they are not trading off their local doctor for a cheap alternative, they are trading up to the absolute best in Latin America. As this story unravels, a city which not many Americans know about today, is on track to provide one of the solutions sought by the large group of people debating the difficult healthcare coverage issue. It’s globalization itself bringing affordable employer healthcare benefits.

Hospital San José TEC de Monterrey is one of Monterrey’s best regarded healthcare institutions, accredited by the Joint Commission International, and part of the Monterrey TEC, Mexico’s largest private educational system. For more information, please visit http://www.hsj.com.mx

Travel For Care is an innovative Medical Travel start-up firm headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, marketing Medical Solutions to American patients looking for elective and non-elective procedures. For more information, please visit http://www.travelforcare.com

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Heather Wicklow

Manager

Travel For Care

Heather@travelforcare.com
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