Hope Found South Of The Border: Reasonably-Priced Bone Marrow Transplants
Monterrey, Mexico, October 13th, 2009
Can you name a health issue that would have you desperately looking for over $250,000 in order to save your life? Unfortunately there are a few cancer types and certain illnesses that fall into this range. What makes them really catastrophic is not only their devastating effects on a person and its family, but also the financial ruin that looms on all of them. It shouldn’t be this way.
Bone Marrow Transplant Ruins Family. Stories like this one are commonplace. Insurance companies may cover part of it, but whatever is not covered is still huge. Other policies and payers may cover part of it, but only to a maximum which, even if high, is still too low for such cases. Lastly there’s those unlucky enough not to have coverage at all, and have to raise funds from all sources to get it done. Why does it have to be this way? Why pay $250,000 for something that can be done for under half that amount? Why haven’t they looked abroad?
Hematopoietic stem cell transplantation is the transplantation of blood stem cells derived from the bone marrow (in this case known as bone marrow transplantation) or the blood. Stem cell transplantation is a medical procedure in the fields of hematology and oncology, most often performed for people with diseases of the blood, bone marrow, or certain types of cancer. It is a well known procedure in which many surgeons from all over the world have specialized in these last years. It requires technology and experience. It can certainly be done away from your hometown. Therefore, find yourself a place with those characteristics and you’ll have a place where thousands can find hope.
As Gabriel Senior, Founder of Travel for Care, a leading medical travel firm states “There is a substantive lack of knowledge by U.S. patients and their families about high quality, low cost alternatives nearby. Monterrey is Latin America’s most developed city, and it offers patients a close, simple, all-encompassing approach to their needs with very affordable prices, and the same high quality service, treatments, and procedures that one would expect at a top hospital in the U.S.” This is also valid for bone marrow transplants. At Hospital San Jose TEC de Monterrey, the city’s best-regarded healthcare institution, the IMEHT hematology practice performs these procedures routinely with a total cost averaging $30,000 and rarely exceeding $100,000. Dr. Jose Rafael Borbolla, the director of the IMEHT practice says “After catering to patients from all Mexico for years, we are eager to get the voice out there and begin serving the US population. We offer our cutting edge technology, and vast experience in the field at prices that seem unbelievable to most Americans.”
These diseases of the blood, bone marrow, and certain cancers give people very little time before treatment. With healthcare costs in the United States continuing to rise at higher rates than inflation, an escape valve for some is being found abroad. As one of the main Medical Travel destinations, Monterrey has internationally accredited hospitals and top-notch doctors that are increasingly treating foreign patients from everything ranging between plastic surgery to cancer. A city which not many Americans know about today is on track to provide one of the solutions sought by everyone debating this difficult issue.
Hospital San José TEC de Monterrey is one of Monterrey's best regarded healthcare institutions, accredited by the Joint Commission International, and part of the Monterrey TEC, Mexico's largest private educational system. For more information, please visit www.hsj.com.mx
Travel For Care is an innovative Medical Travel start-up firm headquartered in Monterrey, Mexico, marketing Medical Solutions to American patients looking for elective and non-elective procedures. For more information, please visit www.travelforcare.com
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