PlacidWay offers unique opportunities to medical travelers looking for up-to-date and reliable information and resources regarding health tourism, medical procedures, and destinations in the world of health and wellness travel, more commonly known as medical tourism.

PlacidWay provides multiple advantages to consumers looking for leading-edge procedures, effective treatments, accredited, reliable and experienced physicians, surgeons and healthcare providers in many medical fields.

If you don't see your question or concern answered in these FAQs, we invite you to contact PlacidWay for free information regarding health care options that can be customized to fit your personal needs, finances, and desires. We will do our best to connect you with healthcare service providers in a variety of locations to ensure that you have choices in your personal healthcare.

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Content presented on PlacidWay is provided for informational and educational purposes. Consumers searching for reliable, up-to-date information regarding medical tourism destinations, state-of-the-art facilities and world-class surgeons and physicians, medical treatments and procedures visit PlacidWay to explore, customize and create their custom experience.

Browse through PlacidWay's website to research providers, treatments, resources, and destinations around the world that meet your health care, travel, and financial needs when it comes to health tourism.

PlacidWay provides a multitude of resources for consumers searching for and researching information regarding illnesses and disease processes and surgery and treatment options abroad. Our medical travel resources offer overviews of medical treatments abroad from traditional yoga, Ayurvedic and homeopathic methodologies to high-tech, state-of-the-art treatments and procedures in cardiac, orthopedic, cancer care and stem cell research.

Articles, press releases, educational materials, medical tourism industry news, videos and a Consumer Center for study and research are presented to inform consumers about the facts of diseases and treatments, potential facilities and where he or she can find the best prices for those treatments.

What Is Health and Wellness Tourism?

Health and wellness tourism is also known as medical tourism. The concept of medical tourism certainly isn't new, and has been going on for thousands of years, originally starting in Rome, China, and then Western Europe. Today, health tourism is generally divided into four separate categories, including elective, surgical, alternative medicine and wellness programs.

• Elective - cosmetic plastic surgery, fertility, weight loss, and dental procedures and treatments
• Surgical - cardiac, cancer, orthopedic and neurosurgery procedures and treatments
• Alternative Medicine - Chinese, or Ayurvedic, homeopathy, or CAM (complementary and alternative medicine) treatments and procedures
• Wellness- holistic, medical spa treatments, and yoga practices and methodologies

Medical treatment abroad takes advantage of advanced technological services and procedures from medical facilities and healthcare providers around the world. Medical vacations provide consumers with affordable surgery abroad, more choices, and of course, the ultimate in tourist destinations.

The increasingly rising cost of healthcare in the United States and other industrialized nations around the world has overburdened public healthcare systems and created extremely long wait times, such as those found in Canada, and decreased the number of benefits to employees through health insurance care plans, especially in the United States. Other less developed countries experience unavailable quality care, especially those in the Gulf regions, parts of Asia, and African countries.

Affordable medical procedures in the fields of dental and eye care, cosmetic surgery, obesity and weight loss programs and in high tech medical care fields such as cardiac care, orthopedics and cancer treatments prompt individuals from a multitude of nations to cross borders for affordable and high-quality health care in world-class settings throughout the globe. Health tourism, medical treatment abroad, and medical tourism packages offer consumers the best of the best abroad.

PlacidWay offers consumers a user-friendly website for access to information regarding medical treatments, facilities, and medical vacations and destinations. PlacidWay offers convenient easy-to-understand research and resources to compare, research, and choose medical destinations and healthcare providers from one source , based on up-to-date and relevant information regarding health and wellness services and treatment abroad.

PlacidWay also provides resources for a number of approaches to healthcare, including traditional, elective, and alternative medicine choices for consumers. Our integrative medical approach to healthcare offers consumers a wide variety of medical tourism packages.

PlacidWay offers medical treatment abroad customized healthcare options based on individual needs, preferences, and finances.

Over 1 million tourists from around the world venture to other countries for medical treatment abroad or for medical vacations. PlacidWay provides information and profiles for medical destinations and facilities in those countries. Countries throughout Asia, such as India, Singapore, Thailand, Korea and Malaysia offer state-of-the-art medical facilities and services, as do locations found in South Africa, Mexico, and Latin American countries such as Argentina, Costa Rica, Panama, Colombia, Bolivia and Brazil. Travelers from around the world also enjoy new medical travel options in Europe and countries such as Croatia, the Ukraine, Italy, Switzerland, Germany and Poland.

PlacidWay carefully researches country destinations in order to offer consumers the benefits of travel to such destinations and affordable medical care facilities for each of those destinations. Costs, availability of specific treatments, options, and arrangements are available through access to PlacidWay's immense and continually growing medical tourism database.

Of course, every individual must determine what is best for him or herself. PlacidWay offers consumers affordable treatment abroad options and benefits of medical travel in a multitude of scenarios. It is up to each individual to determine whether or not traveling beyond borders is the solution that will meet personal needs, finances, and desires.

PlacidWay believes that every individual should have a choice in his or her personal health and wellness and should be able to make informed choices and decisions based on reliable and accurate information regarding options for health care, both domestically and abroad.

Affordable medical treatment abroad, options, procedures, techniques and surgeries for multitudes of international travelers are available for consumers around the world. PlacidWay compares costs of various treatments and procedures that can save consumers hundreds or thousands of dollars without relinquishing quality, expertise or experience. PlacidWay offers information on healthcare facilities that are accredited and board-certified by the JCI, ISO, TRENT, CCHSA, ASCHI, and more. We always encourage consumers to verify that surgeons, staff and healthcare providers in profiled facilities are board-certified. Dozens of physicians, surgeons and facilities profiled at PlacidWay are certified by American Boards of Surgery and specialties in a multitude of fields.

PlacidWay offers an easy approach to researching and choosing superlative healthcare and treatment abroad. Our three step method offers a one-stop resource for consumers searching for affordable, quality and experienced healthcare providers.

• Explore options by choosing treatments and destinations from Search PlacidWay
• Select, research and learn about centers and facilities for fulfilling treatment and destination needs
• Click request info and receive free quotes directly from facility or facilities of choice of choice

PlacidWay's partners provide leading-edge and innovative healthcare and health tourism services in fields of healthcare such as stem cell treatments, orthopedic procedures, cancer treatments, cardiac surgeries, and obesity and weight loss procedures. PlacidWay and partner organizations focus on customer needs, building trust relationships and creating unique and exceptional experience for medical vacations by offering full service healthcare providers, health tourism facilitators and healthcare options that meet most needs.

PlacidWay focuses on offering consumers high-quality and experienced doctors, surgeons, facilities and hospitals, timely and efficient treatment, affordable prices and compassionate care in all medical fields, including cosmetic and plastic surgery, dental care and vision care.

PlacidWay also focuses specific treatments, procedures, risks, costs, and issues such as certification and accreditation in all aspects of healthcare for medical treatment abroad. PlacidWay provides full transparency for today's health tourism markets and is committed to being an alternate tool and resource for health tourists.

Yes. PlacidWay offers an easy to use online booking system. Just click the Travel Planning menu and book your entire medical vacation, which includes treatment abroad and medical tourism packages, airfare, car rentals, accommodations in the city and country of your choice as well as connecting you with superlative healthcare providers and facilities. Our travel bookings are powered by TravelNow (Hotel.com), a market leader in Hotel, Car, and Air reservations. Our service is free and is designed to offer medical travel options, destinations, and price quotes to meet most needs.

Yes. PlacidWay would love to hear from you regarding your treatment abroad questions or concerns. Contact us by clicking the Contact Us link to send us your questions, requests, comments, or feedback regarding medical tourism packages or surgery abroad.