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7 Medical Tourism Trends To Watch In 2016

Posted by Julie Munro on February 24, 2016   |   5 Comments

2016 is shaping up to be an exciting year for providers of medical travel (or is it medical tourism?).

Medical Travel Quality Alliance expects that these will be the trends and issues of 2016 for the medical tourism industry, and will affect nearly all segments of the industry in nearly all countries around the globe.

1. Medical tourism gives birth to a baby boom.

The demand by medical tourists for in vitro fertilization IVF, gender selection, commercial surrogacy, and birthing places keeps growing.

Chinese baby

After Thailand and India restricted commercial surrogacy, some surrogacy agencies moved operations to Cambodia and Nepal. In late 2015, Nepal and Mexico – which had allowed commercial surrogacy in the state of Tabasco – made surrogacy illegal.

But this doesn’t stop demand.

Surrogacy tourism to Russia, Ukraine and Georgia Read more…

Global Medical Tourism Fails On Quality Care To International Travelers.

Posted by Julie Munro on December 9, 2015   |   No Comments

Patient abandonedMedical tourism is at a crossroads.

The medical tourism industry has failed to live up to its promise to medical travelers of delivering better quality treatment and care for anyone seeking to travel to a foreign country for health care. Read more…

Lebanon | Clemenceau Medical Center

Posted by Julie Munro on October 7, 2014   |   No Comments

Clemenceau Medical CenterBeirut’s Clemenceau Medical Center affiliated with Johns Hopkins International has become the first hospital in Lebanon to achieve international medical tourism certification from the Medical Travel Quality Alliance.

This marks a medical tourism milestone for Lebanon and for the hospital. Read more…

How Much Does Commercial Surrogacy Cost?

Posted by Julie Munro on September 29, 2014   |   No Comments

total cost(Commercial Surrogacy Tourism, part 4)

Surrogacy tourism, like other medical travel services, is commonly promoted to be a “fraction of the cost” of commercial surrogacy in the U.S.

Yet, like other medical services, commercial surrogacy does not necessarily cost the oft-quoted US$70,000-$150,000.

A bonus of Obamacare gives a surrogate who in the past may not have had medical insurance the chance to sign with one of the state health Read more…