Domestic Medical Tourism is Taking Off

Premera Blue Cross Blue Shield, Alaska’s biggest health insurer, started a program in January that will pay expenses for some of its members to fly to Seattle for some procedures that come with huge price breaks. For instance, a knee surgery that costs $27,100 in Alaska can be performed for $13,000 in Seattle, according to [...]



via John Goodman's Health Policy Blog http://healthblog.ncpa.org/domestic-medical-tourism-is-taking-off-2/