The National Business Group is treating medical tourism support as a serious corporate benefits option.
The NBGH, Washington, a coalition of large employers, has come out with an issue brief on programs that help patients save money by seeking medical care outside the United States.
The medical tourism market generated about $60 billion in expenditures in 2006, and the total could rise to $100 billion by 2012, NBGH researchers note in a medical tourism issue brief.