About Satori World Medical

With the rising cost of health care within the United States quite apparent, Satori® World Medical offers people an alternative approach to arranging medical treatment. The company, headquartered in San Diego, California, and led by President and CEO Steven Lash, relies on a global network of hospitals to help reduce the cost of health care for individuals, insurers, employers, and financial sponsors. Through its Quality Assurance Program™, Satori World Medical seeks out the finest facilities around the world to minimize the economic burden on patients. The network offers medical services in Thailand, India, Costa Rica, Mexico, Singapore, Canada, and several other countries. With its approach, the company continues to serve as a leader in the globalization of health care. As medical and technological improvements are made throughout the world, many countries can offer advanced medical care without an inflated price. Satori World Medical takes advantage of this reality through its Health & Shared Wealth Program™. The company boasts a savings of 40-80% on surgical procedures compared to traditional domestic options. The cost includes airfare, hospital and physician fees, hotel accommodations, foreign ground transportation, and a personal accident insurance policy for the patient and a companion. Employers can share these savings with their employee (the patient) through options such as depositing a portion of the savings into a Health Reimbursement Account (HRA) or providing meal per diems while the patient is traveling for surgery. Utilizing an HRA allows for reimbursement to an employee for qualified medical expenses and can be compatible with a qualified Health Savings Account or other model. In addition to cost savings, Satori World Medical strives to provide comprehensive customer service. Through the use of technology and highly trained staff, the firm offers patients an uncomplicated route for scheduling and receiving treatment. After a patient registers via its website or calls, a Nurse Patient Advocate from Satori will make contact to discuss the entire medical treatment process. Next, a Travel Care Coordinator will arrange all logistics of travel and the procedure. Once the date has arrived, patients will be greeted at the airport, escorted to the hotel, and checked in to the hospital the following day. Finally, once the procedure is completed and travel is authorized, patients will return home and consult with their local physician.

Sunday, January 27, 2013

Five reasons why healthcare costs are high



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Healthcare costs in the US are higher than in any other country in the world, exceeding $2.6 trillion, which is around 18 percent of the country’s entire GDP. This number continues to rise year after year because of many reasons. Here are five of them:

Medical professionals are being paid for service quantity, not quality. This pay-per-service system reimburses medical professionals for each procedure, test, or visit, and encourages overtreatment and unneeded, repetitive tests.


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Americans today live longer. They are also heavier, which makes them more prone to diseases. Due to advances in medical technology, people today have longer lives, which means a prolonged need for medical care. In addition, a lot of Americans today have chronic diseases linked to obesity.

Americans want more medical innovation. Innovations in medical care equate to longer and better quality of life. Americans always want to be at the forefront of innovation. Sadly, many of the new treatments are only slightly better than the ones they have replaced.


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Larger medical systems can demand higher prices. In some places in the US, hospitals are fast becoming monopolies, buying up and swallowing their competition, thus jacking up prices.

There is an overuse of care. Some people who get their medical insurance with low deductibles through their employers often overuse it. If this is combined with medical professionals’ penchant to overtreatment, then healthcare costs increase higher.

New efforts by the government and some private insurers now work toward lowering the incidents of overtreatment by working on moving the pay-per-service system to a flat rate-per-condition system. In addition, medical travel providers, like Satori World Medical and Companion Global Healthcare, aim to reduce healthcare costs by promoting affordable high-quality medical care outside the US.

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