Purchasing health services abroad: Practices of cross-border contracting and patient mobility in six European countries

Glinos, Irene A.; Baeten, Rita; Maarse, Hans

doi:10.1016/j.healthpol.2009.11.016

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“…2 Contracting health care abroad can also be an instant, and usually temporary, solution to deal with long waiting lists. 3 A 1971 EU Regulation on the coordination of social security systems established a legal framework under which patients who want to receive planned care in another EU Member State can do so, provided they obtain prior authorization from their domestic purchaser, such as a social insurance fund. 4 Payment is settled between the statutory purchasers of the concerned countries.…”

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Cross-border patient mobility in the European Union: in search of benefits from the new legal framework

Baeten

2014

J Health Serv Res Policy

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Baeten

2014

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“…A number of international studies identify top quality medical care being first in line for patients travelling abroad to get medical treatment (Ehrbeck et al, 2008;Legido-Quigley and McKee, 2010;Glinos et al, 2010). Saving costs can dominate in some national studies, especially those written with focus on the U.S. market and American patients seeking care abroad.…”

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Care, Cure and Travel – Towards a Symbiosis of Medical Treatment and Tourism?

Borg¹,

Kirsch²,

Ljungbo³

2017

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“…In many developing countries (countries located in South of Africa to Russia), elites of the society whose number is growing, by ridiculing local healthcare services and treatments increased the need for advancement of healthcare. The origin had little to do with health tourism and this was totally practical (Glinos et al, 2010). Medical tourism often refers to increased amount of medical services for all tourists.…”

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Planning and developing medical tourism in megalopolis Shiraz

Safaeepour¹,

Goodarzi²,

kondari³

2015

10.5267/j.msl

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Medical tourism is an international phenomenon where some tourists travel long to reach treatment-therapeutic services because of high expenses, long waits, lacking in insurance, and applying services and insufficient access to health services in the destination. This industry, now, by making 60 billion dollars annually in international level, has been considered as one the most profitable markets and the number of countries to provide facilities and treatment services for foreign tourists tend to increase. Many countries provide applicable and legal plans for development of this industry. This paper aims at planning and improving medical tourism in megalopolis Shiraz. The dominating approach in the present study is developmental-applied and the method is descriptive, analytical and survey study. To analyze the data and to test the research hypothesis, the linear Pearson correlation and ANOVA were used. The results of the present study have indicated that all quality factors of treatment and tourism services, culture, facilities, medical and tourist equipment and ICT, had positive and direct correlation with developing medical tourism and the factor of price had negative and reverse correlation with it. In other words, the higher the price is, the less the medical tourism development is and vice versa. Also, the ANOVA showed that among medical tourists from various countries regarding satisfaction with the price of treatment and tourist services, the quality of treatment and tourist services, culture, facilities, medical and tourist equipment and ICT, there are significant differences and Kuwaiti tourists were the most satisfied tourists and Afghani ones were the least satisfied.Growing Science Ltd. All rights reserved. 5

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Purchasing health services abroad: Practices of cross-border contracting and patient mobility in six European countries

Cited by 54 publications

References 10 publications

Cross-border patient mobility in the European Union: in search of benefits from the new legal framework

Cross-border patient mobility in the European Union: in search of benefits from the new legal framework

Care, Cure and Travel – Towards a Symbiosis of Medical Treatment and Tourism?

Planning and developing medical tourism in megalopolis Shiraz

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