Kidney Removal Surgery in India at Pocket Friendly Cost

Posted by admin on Jun 24th, 2010 | 0 comments

India is gaining popularity internationally due to available of robotic kidney removal surgery in India at pocket friendly cost. The private sector which was very modest in the early stages has now become a flourishing industry equipped with the most modern state-of-the-art technology at its disposal. It is estimated that 75-80% of health care services and investments in India are now provided by the private sector. You have two kidneys, which help to make urine. They lie deep in your back just in front of your lowest ribs. One of your kidneys is diseased and needs to be taken out. After your operation, the other kidney will make enough urine for your needs. Hospitals of kidney removal surgery in India are located at Mumbai, Delhi, Chennai and Bangalore which are having world class medical healthcare facilities and special wards for international patients.

The Operation

You will have a general anesthetic, and will be asleep for the whole operation. A cut is made in your skin either in your tummy or in your back depending on your particular kidney disease. The surgeon will discuss the details with you. The kidney is taken out after tying off important blood vessels (the arteries that give blood to it and the veins that drain blood from it) and urine tubes (ureters) that drain the urine. The skin wound is then stitched up. You should plan to be in hospital for 10 days. You may well be home before this. Leaving things as they are will mean that your kidney problem will just get worse. For kidney stones shock wave treatment is usually a good way of getting stones out of the kidney, but in your case this will not help. For cystic kidneys, there are ways of draining the kidney using keyhole operations, but again these are not the best ways to solve your problem. Taking out the kidney with a keyhole surgical procedure is not always possible and it takes place only in some highly specialized centers. It would not be suitable for your kidney. You do not need a kidney transplant as your remaining kidney can produce the quantity and quality of urine that you need on daily basis so that you will be entirely healthy.

Possible Complications

As with any operation under general anesthetic, there is a very small risk of complications related to your heart and lungs. The tests that you will have before the operation will make sure that you can have the operation in the safest possible way and will bring the risk for such complications very close to zero. Complications are relatively unusual but are rapidly recognized and dealt with by the surgical staff. If you think that all is not well, please let the doctors and nurses know. Bruising of the wound can be troublesome but most of the time settles. There is a 2% chance of an infection of the wound which can be settled by taking antibiotics for a week or two 1-2 week.

India medical technology is growing day by day and it has marked new level of success. Kidney removal surgery in India at the most advanced cancer surgery hospitals of Delhi and Chennai is available more…at an affordable price. Medical tourism has helped many global patients to recover with a cost effective kidney surgery in India. Now you can get the robotic surgery for kidney removal in India at affordable price with the best medical treatment and facilities. Advanced methods for treatment are available in India at pocket friendly cost. India offers the best treatment for kidney removal with the best surgeons and the best hospitals in India. All our panels of hospitals are well equipped with latest medical facilities and equipments to keep pace with the technological advancements in the field of medical science. Robotic Surgery in the field of kidney removal surgery is one among all medical facilities we offer. All our panel doctors are highly qualified and have extremely high success ratio. For details on kidney removal surgery in India you can visit http://www.forerunnershealthcare.com and enquiry@forerunnershealthcare.com

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Insurance Companies Have a Great Opportunity in Medical Travel

Posted by admin on May 31st, 2010 | 0 comments

With healthcare costs in the United States continuing to rise at higher rates than inflation, American health insurers are facing very tough times as there’s enormous pressure on their financials. Some allow these cost increases to impact their earnings as a means to gain share, others pass this on to customers as higher premiums, and yet others prefer to keep prices but creatively nudge deductibles, co-payments, and contract terms as to be able to survive in a fiercely competitive and controversial market. However, they must slowly acknowledge that an escape valve is found abroad.

As technology and information flows are shrinking our world, travel for healthcare is becoming universal. Americans looking for excellent but affordable medical or dental procedures find that neighboring countries have shown to have private healthcare facilities which offer very high quality care at great value. Even if US insurance companies realize this is an irreversible trend and understand that letting some of their clients choose to go overseas for surgery may offer a great opportunities to alleviate some of the strain, they are being too slow to adopt it as part of their strategy. Pushing insured clients to seek less expensive options abroad is not only looked down upon but sometimes illegal. What they don’t realize is that they are benefiting from this already and what they need is to align incentives a little better.

The story of one of our recent patients illustrates this point. Mr. Chris Moss, a Denver citizen who asked to remain anonymous, was very recently diagnosed with prostate cancer and advised by his doctor to seek immediate treatment. Having had no health problems in the past, this was his first call to Aetna Global Benefits, his employer-provided insurer. To his surprise, while the robotic prostatectomy surgery he desperately needed would only be covered 80% if performed in the U.S, leaving him with tough-to-cover medical bills of over $10,000, he could choose to have his surgery abroad and his insurer would pay 100% of it. Chris immediately began to examine overseas options, skipping consciously on everything that wouldn’t meet or exceed the quality of care he could receive in Denver and quickly found an option which: 1) offered top-notch care, technology, and surgeons’ experience, 2) is very close to home, 3) has English-speaking staff, and 4) offers the possibility of remotely consulting with the doctors beforehand.

Without knowing it, Chris quickly became a Medical Traveler, one of the hundreds of thousands of Americans that seek affordable healthcare abroad. As patients typically do not know where to start their search or what they’ll find, medical travel facilitators provide assistance in understanding which are the best options, getting price quotes, contacting doctors, booking medical trips, and making the healthcare visit run smoothly. It was through our Monterrey-focused firm called Travel For Care that Chris learned about his options in Mexico and had a seamless experience from research to bookings, and from checking in at the hospital to arriving back home. Two weeks after beginning his research, Chris’ cancer was being removed using the most advanced method the world of medicine knows today.

In this case, Chris is extremely happy to have spent about $1,000 in travel and accommodations when he would have spent easily over $10,000 in co-payments back in Denver. Likewise, his insurance company spent about $28,000 when it could have paid 80% of a $50,000 surgery, or about $40,000. The case is clear, the best healthcare outside of the US, complying with the same quality standards, is as inexpensive as to make paying 100% of it cheaper than paying 80% of the US cost. Although it is true that this type of policy and its 100% coverage abroad terms are not the typical health plan, it should be an eye opener for the industry. Let’s make it clear, that nobody was shoved to go abroad for surgery. Nothing illegal or looked-down-upon was done. All parties are happy (including the Mexicans involved). It is a simple case study for free markets and incentives. Perhaps insurers should inform holders of such policies that they have valuable options abroad. Perhaps all insurers should think of adding the “100% coverage abroad” feature to all policies and see how the market’s invisible hand actually lowers costs and therefore premiums. All in all, there are great opportunities abroad for insurers employing creativity the right way. The best part is that all are set to benefit: insurers, customers, and society as a whole.

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