How Much Can You Save with Medical Travel?
00:00:00.000 | The average savings that we tell patients they can expect, whether it's a complex dental procedure
00:00:05.520 | or an orthopedic procedure like a new knee or a new hip, which is very common, or IVF,
00:00:11.120 | is anywhere from 40 to 65 percent. So if you want to just figure roughly half, that's a good number.
00:00:18.560 | People who've been goaded by advertising or social media where they're advertising some cost
00:00:24.960 | that is 80, 85 percent savings, 90 percent savings, you really want to watch out for that. Cost
00:00:29.840 | shopping is one of the biggest mistakes that a medical traveler can make. Those are the people
00:00:34.080 | that get into trouble, because the clinic's got to make money too. So they can't offer a knee
00:00:39.280 | procedure for $800. They got to pay their rent. They got to keep their equipment up. They got to
00:00:44.240 | feed their families. So if you aren't within that 50 to 70 percent, 40 to 60 percent cost range,
00:00:50.560 | you want to look out. If it's not enough of a savings by the time you add your travel,
00:00:54.080 | your accommodations, your dining, and all that, unless you're tacking it on
00:00:58.080 | to your procedure, then you're probably not saving enough.