Health and Dental Tourism is a Top Travel Trend for 2010

by on March 12, 2010

As reported by Laura Bly, USA TODAY, health care and dental tourism will be a top ten travel trend for 2010. She reports, ” As Washington lawmakers continue to grapple with health-care reform, more Americans — an estimated 1.6 million by 2012, according to Deloitte Center for Health Solutions — will combine foreign vacations with carpal tunnel surgery, dental crowns and other short-stay, outpatient procedures that cost 30%-70% less than U.S. prices. Driving the trend: more coverage of overseas medical care by major U.S. insurers, an increase in individual insurance policies that typically carry a high deductible, and a marketing push by companies that combine travel and medical services.”
Due to low annual maximums you will probably not dee the same push from dental insurers. That is because people will be using all benefits available for a given year on one trip. Paying out benefits costs an insurance company money and if the maximum is paid there is no incentive for an insurance company to encourage the trip. But is good practice to know your dental benefits. Understand how you can use them if you take a dental vacation to countries like India, Thailand or Mexico.

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