Medical Tourism - Arranging for Member International Treatments


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Medical Tourism - Arranging for Member International Treatments: A Workshop for Health Plans/Employers

A Webinar & Audio Conference with Steven R. Gerst, MD, MBA, MPH, CHE, Executive Vice President, MedicaView International, Inc.; and John Linss, President and CEO, MedicaView International, Inc.
Wednesday, December 17th, 2008
1:00 p.m. to 2:15 p.m. Eastern (10:00 - 11:15 a.m. Pacific)
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This webinar will address domestic and international medical travel options now available to all U.S. insurers, TPAs, underwriters, re-insurers, HSA Administrators, and self-insured employers. The speakers will discuss specifics on how a plan can establish a domestic and international medical travel network; checklist of considerations; case examples; major issues; cost savings implications; important plan design and incentives; available technology, programs, and provider systems; medical travel insurance policies; next steps.

Individual Registration Fee: $225. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $285 for non-attendees after the event. Special Savings: 1 Year Complimentary Subscription to Global Health Resources ($90 savings!)*
Corporate Site licensing also available. Click here to register or call 209.577.4888.


Destination Medicine – A recent study indicates that 6 million Americans may travel for medical care by 2010; 16.6 million within 9 years. Highly respected publications like U.S. News & World Report, Modern Healthcare, The Economist, and The Wall Street Journal have all carried similar stories in the past few months as American residents and insurers start to seek lower cost, high quality medical care. U.S. insurers are developing international networks to address this need and take advantage of the 70%-90% lower costs while still providing outstanding care. This session will discuss the various means by which both domestic medical travel and low cost, high quality international medical care options are now available to all U.S. insurers, TPAs, underwriters, re-insurers, HSA Administrators, and self-insured employers.

Become familiar with domestic and international medical travel options to achieve 70%-90% cost savings for your clients. Understand how these cost savings are generated. Familiarize yourself with the developing international networks and the economics driving this movement so that you and your clients can stay competitive. Understand the available and enabling technology which will allow US insurers, TPAs and self-funded employers take advantage of these huge savings. Learn about the national and international "Continuity of Care" programs designed to meet the new guidelines of the American Medical Association, as well as the medical travel insurance policies becoming available.

Senior Executives Information Technology Executives and Provider Network Executives from all U.S. insurers, TPAs, underwriters, re-insurers HSA/HRA/FSA/MSA Administrators Medicare MSA Administrators and self-insured employers interested in accessing the 70%-90% savings on high cost surgical care now available and staying competitive with large US insurers

Steven R. Gerst, MD, MBA, MPH, CHE Executive Vice President, MedicaView International, Inc.	Dr. Gerst is Executive Vice President of MedicaView International, Inc. (www.MedicaView.com) offering a business to business global software solution for medical travel with international PPO, a continuity of care program and travel insurance underwritten by Lloyd’s of London. Clients include hospitals and physicians, insurance carriers, third party administrators, large self-insured employers and medical travel facilitators. The software provides an integrated, private label solution which allows patients to examine medical content about their symptoms/diagnoses, identify physicians and hospitals worldwide, schedule appointments, book travel, and pay-online through HSA/MSA/FSA and Medicare MSA accounts as well as by credit card. Medicaview also offers a Net 2.0 “Community” platform in 23 languages allowing patients to communicate with other patients and physicians to communicate with each other through VOIP (Voice-Over Internet Protocol). MedicaView also features a national Continuity of Care platform offering a full year of Pre- and Post-Operative Care for insured or uninsured patients traveling nationally or internationally for care. Dr. Gerst is an Executive Committee Member of the International Medical Travel Association (www.IntlMTA.org) and holds undergraduate, masters and medical degrees from Columbia University as well as an M.B.A. from the Goizuetta School of Business at Emory University. He is completing a Doctorate in Business Administration (D.B.A.) in Finance and a Masters in Taxation. Dr. Gerst was previously Senior HealthCare Consultant and Regional Medical Director for what is now PricewaterhouseCoopers, LLP and was CEO of the PPO Division of Columbia/HCA. MedicaView International is a subsidiary of CoreSpeed, LLC (www.CoreSpeed.com).

John Linss President and CEO, MedicaView International, Inc.	John Linss has over 28 years experience in a variety of business and technology arenas. As a serial entrepreneur, John often provides executive coaching and speaks on topics ranging from sales and marketing to technology and business strategy. He also has served as an adjunct professor in the Emory University Goizueta School of Business. As President/CEO of MedicaView International, Inc. (MVI), he is at the forefront of the emerging global healthcare market. MVI is a globally focused organization that facilitates effective global and/or local interaction and commerce between accredited healthcare providers, health plans, TPAs and consumers. As the Healthcare subsidiary of CoreSpeed, MVI leverages CoreSpeed’s Enterprise 2.0 platform originally created for the travel industry which is extremely suitable for medical travel activities. The platform and support infrastructure provides significant flexibility that MVI implements in a wide variety of tailored solutions including: international preferred provider organizations (IPPO); private label international medical travel portals for “powered by” implementations; secure and collaborative Continuity of Care environments; private label consumer directed member portals. Linss serves on the board of a number of businesses and non-profit organizations including the International Medical Travel Association. His formal education includes Bachelor of Science majors in Economics and Interpersonal Communications at the University of Georgia.

Individual Registration Fee: $225. Audio Conference CD-ROM: $40 for attendees; $285 for non-attendees after the event.

Corporate Site licensing also available. Click here to register or call 209.577.4888 We look forward to your participation in this event!

*Special Savings: 1 Year Complimentary Subscription to Global Health Resources ($90 savings!)

All Registrants will receive a complimentary 1 year subscription (new subscribers only) to Global Health Resources. Global Health Resources is the leading Internet source of international health business information for professionals. You will receive three well-respected e-newsletters: International Health Care Business Strategies; International Factoids; and Communiqués. As a Global Health Resources subscriber, you will also have access to easy to use searchable databases, news, conference presentations, International Who's Who directory, country-specific reference information, articles, data files and international healthcare trends. Find out more at: http://www.globalhealthresources.com.

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