The Friday Fray: Medical Tourism

June 25, 2008

This week's Friday Fray discusses medical tourism, a fast-growing area of employee benefits aimed at employees who will travel overseas to receive high-quality but lower cost health care.

Joining us on the call will be:

Alex Marxer, COO of Health Travel Guides -- Marxer is a respected industry expert whose company offers an online system that helps integrate all aspects of international health travel.

Dr. Edward Watson of Medtral in New Zealand -- New Zealand is fast emerging as a top-choice "luxury" medical destination. Medtral has just launched their first contract with a leading independent PPO, Pinnacle Health, with over 3,000 providers throughout America's northeast.

Morgan Armstrong, president of Plan Benefit Services, a Columbia, South Carolina-based employee benefit advisory firm -- Amstrong's firm and several of his employer-clients recently returned from Singapore and Thailand to see medical facilities abroad for themselves.

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Topic: Friday Fray: Medical Tourism
Date: Friday, June 27, 2008
Time: 1:00 pm, Eastern Daylight Time (GMT -04:00, New York)

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