Category Archives: Medical Tourism News

In a recent newsletter from the International Medical Travel Journal, Costa Rica has been cited as one of the hottest medical tourism destinations in 2014. “…Another favored destination for medical tourism this year is Costa Rica. This beautiful country has been one of the most popular v...  Continue reading

Taking advantage of value medical checks in Costa Rica. US In 2014, about 585,720 Americans are expected to die of cancer, almost 1,600 people per day. Cancer is the second most common cause of death in the US, exceeded only by heart disease, accounting for nearly 1 of every 4 deaths. Source: Americ...  Continue reading

March 2014  – MediTourDirect in Montreal David Charnock, Co-Founder and Marketing Director of MediTourDirect has been out there again risking life and limb, in sub-zero temperatures, promoting our Costa Rican Providers as far away as Montreal. David had 3 days based in Montreal, actively promo...  Continue reading

31 March was the deadline for open enrollment under the Affordable Care Act. The law’s potential of getting all previously uninsured Americans covered has fallen somewhat short. A poll released just days before the deadline showed that 50 percent of uninsured citizens from the ages of 18-64 pl...  Continue reading

An estimated 900,000 patients from the US sought healthcare services outside of the US in 2013, according to recent findings by Patients Beyond Borders and information published by Reuters. These numbers have risen from 2012, where between 600,000 and 800,000 medical tourists left the US for healthc...  Continue reading

The medical tourism research group at Simon Fraser University in Canada has been busy studying elements of why Canadians pay to go overseas for treatment that they could get at home for free; ‘Canadian patients’ perspectives regarding the use of medical tourism for hip and knee surgery’. Due to Cana...  Continue reading

Canadians have little faith the country’s health system is prepared to handle the needs of a looming “tsunami” of aging boomers, a new poll suggests. Six in 10 Canadians surveyed said they lack confidence in the health system’s ability to care for Canada’s rapidly greyi...  Continue reading

We had the opportunity to have a filming crew in Costa Rica, filming 2 of our Medical tourism patients. Here is the link to the segment that aired on the Program NightLine on ABC News about these 2 patients We are very happy to share this with you: ABC US News | ABC Business News […]  Continue reading

Many employers in the U.S. have dramatically reduced or terminated their retirement benefits. This combination of weaker public and private retirement programs is putting enormous financial risk on American retirees. For many years, retirees and seniors have looked to Social Security and Medicare as...  Continue reading