Medical Tourism to Mexico

According to research by the University of Delaware publication, UDaily:

The cost of surgery in Mexico can be one-tenth of what it is in the United States or even Western Europe, and sometimes less.
A heart-valve replacement that would cost $150,000 or more in the U.S., for example, goes for $15,000 in Mexico – and that includes round-trip airfare and a brief vacation package. A metal-free dental bridge worth $5,500 in the U.S. costs $1,500 in Mexico, a knee replacement in Mexico with six days of physical therapy costs about one-third of what it would in The United States, and Lasik eye surgery worth $3,700 in the U.S. is available in many other countries for only $1,000. Cosmetic surgery savings are even greater: A full face lift that would cost $15,000 in the U.S. runs about $4,500 in Mexico.

If you live close enough to Mexico, you should consider a Mexican orthodontist. Where the treatment costs from $6,000 up in the US (I know, I had it done for my kid), it costs $2,000 here in Mexicali.

Where is Mexicali?

In Southern California, more than 3,000 people are enrolled in Blue Shield of California’s Access Baja cross-border insurance plans for employer groups. The insurance plans send people across the Mexican border to 12 pharmacies, six hospitals and doctors in Tijuana and Mexicali for health services at discounted rates.

Government officials in the Mexican state of Sonora, directly south of Arizona, are promoting medical tourism to Mexico by Americans.

Thousands of Arizonans every year cross the border for dental care. One Phoenix-based dental tourism company runs a weekly chartered van service to take patients to dentists in Tijuana, Nogales, Los Algodones, Puerto Peñasco and Cancun. The company provides all transportation between hotels, airports and the dental offices.

Anyone should consider Mexico as a medical alternative to the US. I did, for my Tarlov surgery. It not only saved me a bundle, but my results are far better than what I have read about in the US.