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The Definition of Crazy
As reported earlier this week by Nancy Grover in Risk and Insurance, workers’ compensation payers are losing billions in unnecessary costs. Her article focused in on the presentation given at the...
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Debunking Myths
Keith Pollard on the International Medical Tourism Journal (IMTJ) blog today exploded five myths surrounding medical tourism that I thought you’d like to know about. While I agree with much of what...
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US Companies Look to ‘Medical Tourism’ To Cut Costs
http://abcnews.go.com/Health/americans-surgeries-overseas-us-companies-medical-tourism-health/story?id=20423011 ABC’s Nightline program featuring video of two Americans getting health care in Costa...
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“Have I Got A Deal For You?” — The Medical-Device Tax Shuffle and Medical...
An Opinion piece in today’s New York Times by Topher Spiro, VP for health policy at the Center for American Progress, brought to mind two earlier posts I wrote about medical devices, more specifically...
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What A Long Strange Year It’s Been – My Year as a Medical Tourism Blogger
Introduction Today marks one year that I began my blog on medical tourism and its implementation into workers’ compensation. From the beginning, I did not have any idea if my blog would be...
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New report on growth of medical tourism
As reported last week on Medicalsea.org, a new report by Research and Markets.com, entitled “Medical Tourism Market – Global Industry Analysis, Size, Share, Growth, Trends and Forecast, 2013 – 2019“,...
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An Open Letter to the Workers’ Compensation Industry
As many of you may know, I recently observed my one year anniversary as a blogger on the subject of medical tourism and its implementation into workers’ comp. Yet, in that time, I have had very little,...
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E PLURIBUS UNUM: Latin American and Caribbean Immigration, Workers’...
I received an interesting post today from Peter Rousmaniere’s blog, Working Immigrants, which is described as a weblog about the business of immigrant work: employment, compensation, legal protections,...
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More Testimonials on Medical Tourism in Mexico
Back in August, I wrote a short piece entitled, Testimonial on Medical Tourism in Mexico. This was based on a comment I received from Patrick Pine, the Chief Administrative Officer at Robert F. Kennedy...
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An Alternative to High Cost Surgeries for Workers’ Compensation Claims under...
Introduction Are you a Contractor or an Owner who has a CCIP or OCIP program? Are you concerned about rising workers’ compensation claims costs? Do you worry about the high cost and poor quality...
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Cross-border Workers’ Compensation A Reality In California
I received an email Friday from one of my LinkedIn connections, Joe Burgess, Senior Executive Vice President for CHSI in Las Vegas. Joe and I had connected back in January, and he mentioned at that...
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Knee Surgery in Costa Rica — A Less Expensive Alternative
Richard’s Note: This is probably the last blog post I will write in 2013, so let me take this opportunity to wish all of my readers a very Happy Holiday, and a very Happy New Year. Let’s hope that...
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A View from the Bench: Medical Tourism and its Implementation into Workers’...
Last week, in response to my post, Knee Surgery in Costa Rica — A Less Expensive Alternative, I received a comment from David Langham, Deputy Chief Judge of Compensation Claims for the Florida Office...
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NAFTA, Work Comp and Cross-Border Medical Care: A Legal View
Here is a blog post from David DePaolo that has a bearing on cross-border medical tourism between the US and Mexico, and how workers’ compensation is impacted by the North American Free Trade Agreement...
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Questions, Questions — How Medical Tourism Can Become a Real Alternative in...
You may have noticed that I changed the name of my blog recently to Transforming Workers’ Comp. I did this because I wanted to show how serious I am about changing the way workers’ compensation is...
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Why A New Trend Of Azure Collar Workers Are Outsourcing Their Medical Needs
Reblogged from ojofuwa: Copyright (c) 2008 Medical-Tourism-Guide. com Read more… 818 more words Just so you don't think that I am a lone voice in the wilderness about medical tourism and workers'...
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IME Doctor Selection — What to Know Before Providing Medical Tourism Services...
Perhaps one reason why medical tourism has yet to penetrate the ‘Iron Curtain’ that surrounds the American workers’ compensation system is that unlike health care, workers’ compensation is very...
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“We’re No. 1!”, NOT! — Why the US Health Care System is Not the Best in the...
A discussion posted yesterday in the LinkedIn group, International Health Professionals – Certification and Education by the group manager, Scott Schneider, linked to a report by Bloomberg.com that...
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There Are No Words
There are no words I can add to the following post from Joe Paduda, so I will let him speak for himself today. All I will say is that I am very grateful for his recognition of me as a dedicated...
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Can Medical Tourism Relieve Stress in Workers’ Comp?
That was the first thing that popped in my mind this afternoon when I read about a study in Australia that was first published in JAMA Psychiatry last week. That study, Relationship Between...
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