Health Net embraces medical tourism
Bloomberg has a good article about how many southern Californians covered by Health Net are being encouraged to have medical procedures at some of the big hospitals just across the border in Mexico. Many patients are being offered the option of no out of pocket expense if they get their surgeries done at one of the Tijuana hospitals now on Health Net’s approved list. That can mean several hundred to several thousand dollars saved.
And while Health Net is focused mostly on southern California Hispanic patients, Aetna has come forward with options for coverage of hip and knee replacement surgery at Singapore General Hospital. Again, there are substantial savings to patients who elect that option. And Blue Cross Blue Shield of South Carolina has signed up Bumrungrad for coverage of out-of-network surgeries.
Insurers seem to be rapidly adapting to the medical tourism phenomenon.
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