Insurers worry about credentialing in medical tourism
Credentialing & Verification Update, November 11, 2008
Even when an American can get an operation in India for a fourth or fifth of the cost of having the same procedure performed stateside, most insurers will not cover treatment abroad. The few insurers exploring covering foreign medical care say credentialing is their top concern, according to a BusinessWeek report.
"[Inusruers] have to take reasonable measures that the providers overseas have the credentials to provide adequate care," Scott Edelstein, a lawyer in the Washington, D.C. and San Francisco offices of the global law firm Squire, Sanders & Dempsey, told BusinessWeek.
Further complicating insurers’ ability to cover foreign care is access to legal recourse, the report explains. Access to the courts is more limited in India than in the U.S., and monetary judgments—when reached—tend to be lower.
Read the full BusinessWeek report on medical tourism.
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