Medical tourism takes flight

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Barron's, September 8, 2009

This article published by Barron's examines the fiscal effect medical tourism has had on publicly-traded international hospitals. With more U.S. insurers considering financing treatment for Americans willing to travel abroad, it is raising the profile of companies such as Thailand's Bumrungrad Hospital and Bangkok Dusit Medical Services, Singapore's Parkway Holdings and Raffles Medical, and India's Apollo Hospitals, the article states.

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