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Domestic Medical Tourism Becoming Very Popular With Employers and Insurers, Says Health Options Worldwide
PRINCETON, NJ--(Marketwire - November 16, 2010) - Self-funded and fully insured employers are jumping on the medical tourism bandwagon, offering the option in their healthcare benefit packages. Medical tourism, or medical travel, which used to be exclusive to uninsured consumers who would travel overseas for low-cost surgeries and medical care, is now growing in popularity with employers and insurers plan sponsors. "They see there are substantial cost savings and reduced employee downtime, so they want to be part of the growing trend," says David Goldstein, president of Health Options Worldwide, an online medical tourism agency that connects patients with physicians domestically and internationally.
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