Medical Tourism
Holiday Inn San Jose Downtown Aurola offers a great location for medical and dental appointments. Our central location is near many of the private clinics offering services.
There are many reasons people come to Costa Rica for medical and dental services:
1. Cost savings. By far the #1 reason for medical travelers. People are looking to get the most for their money. For example in Costa Rica, one of the fastest growing medical tourist destinations, you can save 20 to 85% over the cost of treatment in the United States, depending on type of treatment.
2. Better-quality care in many countries. Experienced medical travelers know that the facilities, technology, and the level of customer service in medical treatment centers in countries like Costa Rica that have invested heavily in the industry, are often equal or exceed those found in the United States. Many Latin American countries have invested billions into expanding and improving their healthcare systems over the past decade.
3. Excluded treatments on insurance plans. Often even the best health insurance plans have excluded conditions and treatments, which is an out of pocket expense for you. Treatments such as dental care, cosmetic surgeries, vision, weight loss programs, reproductive and infertility procedures, orthopedic surgeries, and anti-aging hormonal treatments, are a few that are often not covered on many insurance policies.
4. No wait times. In Canada, and USA you often have to suffer through extremely long wait periods for a treatment or procedure, in some cases as long as two years. In many countries with developed medical travel industries there are very time is low to none.
5. Superior inpatient care. Insurance companies want hospitals to process patients as quickly as possible for obvious reasons, therefore outpatient care procedures are being forced on the patients. Medical travelers enjoy far superior inpatient care at the best hospitals in countries like Costa Rica and where post-procedure is carefully measure for what is best for the patient.
While there are challenges with medical travel, with proper research, and good information from a reputable source your experience will be a positive. Medical tourism can be less stressful, as well as an opportunity to see a new culture and many enjoy a nice relaxing vacation after their treatment or procedure. For many medical travelers it is a life changing experience.
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