{"id":10940,"date":"2018-07-14T05:00:28","date_gmt":"2018-07-14T09:00:28","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10940"},"modified":"2018-07-13T12:17:34","modified_gmt":"2018-07-13T16:17:34","slug":"medical-tourism-startups-seek-patients-willing-to-travel-for-major-surgeries","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/?p=10940","title":{"rendered":"Medical tourism startups seek patients willing to travel for major surgeries"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emily Rappleye for <em>Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review<\/em>)<\/p>\n<p>The burgeoning medical tourism industry \u2014 valued at $68 billion in 2016 by PwC \u2014 is expected to nearly double by 2021 as startups work to woo patients to travel for major surgeries, according to a report from\u00a0<em><a href=\"https:\/\/www.bloomberg.com\/news\/articles\/2018-07-12\/startups-look-to-mainstream-medical-tourism\" target=\"_blank\" rel=\"noopener noreferrer\">Bloomberg<\/a><\/em><em>. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.beckershospitalreview.com\/healthcare-information-technology\/medical-tourism-startups-seek-patients-willing-to-travel-for-major-surgeries.html\">Continue reading article here&#8230;<\/a><\/em><\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/file000159850141morgue-file-june-2017-700x525.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-medium wp-image-8432\" src=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/file000159850141morgue-file-june-2017-700x525-300x225.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"225\" srcset=\"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/file000159850141morgue-file-june-2017-700x525-300x225.jpg 300w, https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2017\/10\/file000159850141morgue-file-june-2017-700x525.jpg 700w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a><\/p>\n<pre>Notice: The link provided above connects readers to the full content of the posted article. The URL (internet address) for this link is valid on the posted date; medicarereport.org cannot guarantee the duration of the link\u2019s validity. Also, the opinions expressed in these postings are the viewpoints of the original source and are not explicitly endorsed by AMAC, Inc.; the AMAC Foundation, Inc.; or medicarereport.org.<\/pre>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>(By Emily Rappleye for Becker&#8217;s Hospital Review) The burgeoning medical tourism industry \u2014 valued at $68 billion in 2016 by<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":4,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12,21],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-10940","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-health-care-general","category-health-care-finance"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/4"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=10940"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":10941,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/10940\/revisions\/10941"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=10940"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=10940"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/medicarereport.org\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=10940"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}