With rising healthcare costs, more and more patients are travelling abroad for medical treatments. However before doing medical travel, one should invest the time and effort to do some careful planning. You don’t have time to do all the research? No worries! That’s why there are medical tourism facilitators. Medical Tourism Facilitators such as MedVoy can help arrange travel, accommodations, transportation, medical procedures abroad and also provide information about the estimate procedure price, destination, hospital, and surgeons plus put together a detailed medical travel plan. So how do I know if I am working with a good medical tourism facilitator? Here are some questions to think about while choosing a medical tourism facilitator:

1. First make sure the company is legally registered and not a company with just a website. The best place to check is the Secretary of State where you can find the incorporation information plus any unresolved issues.

2. You need to make sure that you are working with a company based in U.S. not elsewhere. The legal recourses in other countries might not be as supportive as here in U.S.

3. Ask your facilitator what your recourses may be if you experience a problem.

4. Don’t let the facilitators influence or make decisions for you. Your selections should be based on your own needs and what’s important to you. However the facilitator should provide detailed information on all the questions you might have to make you well informed.

5. Make sure you are working with a reputed company that has healthcare professionals involved. You need professionals who can act as your patient advocates and understand about medical procedures.

6. Is the company insured? Ask for evidence.

7. Find out if the facilitator has visited the hospitals you are being referred to?

8. Are they a certified medical tourism facilitator ?

This is just a subset of questions but I hope you understand the importance of working with the right medical tourism facilitator.