Phil Midden, FAHM of Companion Global Healthcare®,  will explain why the international medical travel industry continues to grow. More employers are now offering incentives for members to consider seeking care abroad as a great way to lower their health care costs while expanding coverage at the same time.  This is a benefit that is added to their current plan, not a replacement. 

The international medical travel industry serving U.S. residents has existed for a number of years among the uninsured, under insured and those seeking treatments and surgical procedures not available state side. As medical costs have continued to consume increasingly greater amounts of employers’ bottom lines and added to the out of pocket expenses born by their employees, medical travel has now been introduced to the group market. This course gives an introduction to the medical travel industry; the dynamics behind its growth; guidelines for shopping, designing, selecting, insuring and implementing a group medical travel option from the point of view of the health insurance agent, broker or consultant.