Previously in Medical Care Outsourcing Soon to be Primetime it was mentioned that the insurer United Group Programs was beginning to offer coverage for offshore medical procedures and had even added Bumrungrad International Hospital in Bangkok to their preferred providers list. It seems to going prime time rapidly, with over 40 companies having already signed […]

A series of press releases have appeared on PRWeb.com regarding the death of a young man at Bumrungrad Hospital. The story is that a 23 year old man named Joshua Goldberg checked into the hospital on 12 February 2006 because his leg was swollen, had no feeling, and he could not move it. He died […]

Bumrungrad International Hospital, Southeast Asia’s largest private hospital, has opened a representative office in Hanoi, Vietnam. The Hanoi office will assist Vietnamese in accessing health services from Bumrungrad’s Bangkok-based hospital. 2,600 patients from Vietnam have already received treatment at Bumrungrad. This is another step in the hospital’s expansion to reach patients in other countries around […]

Visitors from most western countries can arrive in Thailand without a visa and get a 30-day “visa on arrival” stamp in their passport that allows a 30 day stay in the Kingdom. This is the normal process for tourists who typically stay only a week or two. Foreigners wishing to stay longer are required to […]

From Asia-Pacific News comes a story of a U.S. man who is planning to sue a Thai dentist as a result of an accident during a dental procedure. Robert Ramos of New York was undergoing root canal work on August 18 at Krungthep Pattaya Hospital by a dentist named Kasidis Wachiraprakansakul when Ramos felt some […]

The dramatic cost delta between medical treatment in the U.S. and at some of the world class overseas medical centers is compelling employers to send their employees overseas for treatment. A recent example is cited in the Los Angeles Times:
“Carl Garrett of Leicester, N.C., will fly to a state-of-the-art New Delhi hospital in September for […]

Medical tourism from the American woman’s perspective has been reported on in Women’s e-News and one particularly interesting article discusses the experiences of several women who sought treatment at Bumrungrad International Hospital. The details of those experiences really tell the story of why medical tourism is so popular. From the article:
June Flowers suffered from a […]

An August 13 story in the Los Angeles Daily News is titled “Low rates lure more Americans to venture abroad to have surgery”. It has some interesting tid bits about medical tourism.
One item is the story of how Planet Hospital got its start. They are a service that connects western patients with overseas doctors and […]