How Cost Effective is Medical Tourism?
The average cost of private heart surgery in the United States is $50,000. That same operation with comparable rates of success and complications costs only $10,000 in the finest and most state-of-the-art hospital in Bombay. A bone marrow transplant that costs $250,000 in the U.S. costs only $25,000 in India.
For the same price as a week long vacation for two in Hawaii, a couple can travel to India's south coast to include airfare, boarding & lodging, personal tour guide/concierge, and have LASIK corrective surgery for two. Large price disparities such as these exist across the board for numerous medical and surgical procedures. And because of favorable currency exchange rates for medical tourists, the costs associated with accommodations, food, shopping, and sight-seeing are similarly very favorable
