ABC News Alludes to the Quiet Power Behind Medical Travel to Costa Rica, Medical Tours Costa Rica

Medical Tours Costa Rica makes possible almost ten million in savings over 5 years using medical travel to Costa Rica
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SAN JOSE, Costa Rica - Oct. 17, 2013 - PRLog -- Recently an amazing article, a breakthrough piece really for medical travel to Costa Rica was released by ABC News via Nightline. Our thanks to the Medical Tourism Association for initiating contact with ABC. The reason this piece was ground breaking is because it highlighted a nascent trend that could break the stalemate in the United States between quality health care and the increasingly burdensome and overwhelming costs of providing this care.

Having a procedure done in Costa Rica may seem logistically complex and it would be if the patient were trying to manage all the details on their own. One company with a pair of brothers are really at the heart of what has made medical travel to Costa Rica as simple as getting on a plane. Brad and Bill Cook are the most recognizable names in medical travel in Costa Rica. They grew up in Costa Rica and have been associated with or working for the major hospitals in Costa Rica for most of their adult life. As former directors of Clinica Biblica Hospital’s international office they were responsible for arranging travel and coordinating everything from hotels, recovery centers, medical care, and transportation for Biblica’s patients.  Their breakaway company Medical Tours Costa Rica has taken the concept light years further. “Over the years we have developed our own network of caregivers based on quality first and foremost. We are now able to use our knowledge and experience to benefit all walks of patients across a wider range of care options,“ says Bill Cook Vice president of Medical Tours Costa Rica.

http://abcnews.go.com/Nightline/video/us-companies-medica...

So how does a Medical Tours Costa Rica fit exactly into the equation where HSM saved almost ten million dollars over five years?

Medical Tours Costa Rica (MTCR ) is a pioneering company that specializes in providing patients and companies with first class medical care coordination and travel support services in Costa Rica and Puerto Rico.  And this is exactly what they did for another pioneering company called IndUShealth that acts similarly to a third party administrator (TPA). TPA’s handle the administrative and compliance details for companies that self-fund their risk management. These are often called self-insured corporations. IndUShealth administers their medical tourism benefit by vetting facilities and physicians, paying providers, assisting patients prior to travel and in general overseeing the entire medical program for the employer. Essentially the administrators of the HSM insurance plan use MTCR as their Costa Rica go to company for all things medical travel. This includes but is not limited to handling all the logistics of individual or group medical travel journeys to Costa Rica, finding the best surgeons at the best prices and then hand-holding the patient throughout the care process in Costa Rica. In this case and as outlined by ABC News the key pieces of the puzzle were the two doctors who performed wonderfully for both patients. Dr. Oscar Oeding was the orthopedic surgeon and DR. Jacobo Zafrani was the bariatric surgeon. Without the fine training and experience of Costa Rican medical professionals none of what we are discussing could be possible.

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The Cook brothers experience in medical travel is second to none and the hope of course is that more companies similar to HSM will discover the amazing cost savings and high quality care options that exist using Medical Travel to Costa Rica.

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