“It’s not an industry that has taken seriously yet managing outcomes and managing safety,” he said. “In our next study of this, we’ll dig very deeply into clinical processes.”
Raj Joseph, co-founder and CEO of the medical tourism company MedVoy, said that is a “very general statement … At the end of the day, it depends where you are going and which provider within the country you are going [to see],” he said. “We just try to work only with Joint Commission International-accredited hospitals or American Board-certified physicians and focus heavily on continuum of care.”
Follow-Up Care
Dr. Meyers said American doctors, including otolaryngologists, are all over the map when it comes to dealing with patients who have had procedures performed abroad. “There are some doctors that have the feeling that, ‘Look, if you didn’t come to me for your initial care and you went overseas to get it, now you show up at my office, I don’t want to have anything to do with you,’” he said. “There are other doctors that say, ‘Well, if you want me to help you identify a provider overseas, O.K., I’ll have a conversation with that person, I’ll provide records, I’ll establish some sort of pre-post-op care kind of thing, and I’ll be happy to help you.”
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